Hi there. We are back.
After one week of snuggling/adoring/talking/singing/kissing/feeding/diaper-changing little Elsa we feel it is time to start spending some time in our Green Kitchen again. Fear not – all you loving mums and dads out there – we will not take our eyes off of her just yet. Instead we will start out easy, with some recipes we tried out at the last week of Luise’s pregnancy. And as we start cooking in the future it will always be with one hand on Elsa and one hand stirring the spatula.
We came up with this recipe while dreaming of all our upcoming spring picnics. Vegetable packed muffins are perfect as picnic-food since they are easy to bring and taste good both warm and cold. We took it as a challenge to make them gluten free. Eat them with a salad, or as we did, with some homemade hummus in between. Now we are just hoping that all the snow will leave Stockholm soon.
Gluten Free Spinach and Carrot Muffins
Makes 12 small muffins
1 cup buckwheat flour
1/3 cup cornflour
1 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp flax seeds (milled) or boiled quinoa
1/2 tsp salt & pepper
1/2 tsp nutmeg (grated)
3 eggs
1 cup yoghurt (we used a dairy-free soygurt)
200 g fresh spinach leaves (roughly chopped)
2 carrots (grated)
1 onion (grated)
1/2 organic lemon (juice and peel)
1 clove garlic (mashed)
top with: 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
Set the oven at 350°F. Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside. Whip egg and yoghurt in another bowl. Add spinach, carrots, onion, lemon and garlic, stir for a minute and then add all the dry ingredients. Pour in muffin tins, top with pumpkin seeds and bake for 25 minutes.
Please, please snow go away now so that we can eat our muffins outside.
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21 Comments
Love these muffins! They incorporate my all time favourite spinach. YUM! Never thought about savoury muffins though. What a brilliant idea. All the best to your little princess!
Lovely recipe! I love savoury muffins and cakes.
ooohhh lovely. I would love to have more recipes that put vegetables in baked goods, they look so perfect and healthy! Hope you get a sunny sky soon!
I loved this recipe!
I’ve made cheese muffins for yesterday’s dinner, but this will be the next ones.
ooh i will definitely be trying these! what is the purpose of the ground flaxseed? i am wondering because it seems like too small an amount to be added for nutritional value, but maybe I am mistaken.
Sarka: Thank you, we also love spinach.
We added the flax seeds for nutritional value and for the slightly nutty taste. Thanks for the reminder!
Miriam: Thanks!
Sara: Thank you, we have a little sunshine today, but the snow is still here.
Gasparzinha: Thank you, hope you like them!
Sarah: You are right, it should be 2 tbsp flax seeds. Someone stole the b in tbsp
Made these last night…I used 2/3 c quinoa flour and 2/3 c cornflour and just realized I forgot the onion – Doh! I enjoyed them…I forgot how much I love the flavor of cooked spinach, since I’ve just been using raw spinach in smoothies lately. Anyway, I did feel like they were missing a little something and was thinking of adding some ground red pepper or honey (hadn’t decided which way to go yet…) but maybe the onion is my answer!
Thanks for getting me on a savory muffin kick
YUM! I adore veg muffins, and these look wonderful! I must try to invent a dairy free, egg free, corn free version (darn allergies!). I am so inspired by your creativity and wonderfully simple yet delicious food. Fantastic.
These muffins look so very scrumptious! I’m so impressed that with Elsa’s arrival you’re already back to blogging!
BTW, I hope you don’t mind but I’ve given you an award. I just find your blog so inviting, so refreshing and very inspiring. It reminds me of the time I visited Scandinavia
You can read what I wrote about you and my other favorite food bloggers here:
http://kitchen-worthy.com/walking-on-sunshine
No no, we don’t mind at all being awarded
Thank you, for your kind words!!
Beautiful cupcakes and a lovely combination of flavors.
Congratulations on Elsa. I know all about cooking with one arm. It’s possible. Congratulations on being in Top 9 today. These muffins are a perfect picnic choice.
That looks so good! Food-muffins is my favorite muffins. Mom used to make a lot of muffins with both chantarelles and broccoli when I grew up in Sweden. Yummi. Check out my online cooking show, Swedish Home Cooking.
I love this! Your site is awesome!!
I like the sound of these but for some reason I can’t see the actual recipe. Am I missing something really obvious? Help please!!
Oh, now I’ve commented it appeared. Sorry! Sound great, think I’ll try these soon.
Oh these look amazing! Pumpkin seeds are awesome. A beautiful blog you’ve got here
These are great! I had to do a little tinkering as I didn’t have lemon so I used orange juice/zest and swappe walnuts for the pumpkin seeds. Both worked nicely. Excellent for pre-workout snack time. Thank you I’ll be making these again.
Mmm yummy, think I will try that aswell, thank you too!
/Luise
For the life of me I can’t figure out what’s standard in Sweden/how to select an American equivalent — is “cornflour” the American corn starch, or is it finely-ground cornmeal? Sorry for the confusion, and thanks!
Hi Nan, cornflour is the same as corn meal. Corn starch is something else. You can read more about it on here.