Whole-Wheat Spiced Carrot Muffins

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Incredibly healthful, these muffins are made with 100 percent whole-wheat flour and nary other fat, and are mildly sweetened with maple syrup oregon honey. Great served with pome butter, they're besides fantastic with a schmear of pick food oregon room-temperature butter.

Try utilizing the batter to marque pancakes for a amusive meal (cooking them with a spot of coconut lipid — delicious). The muffins tin beryllium made savory by substituting curry pulverization for the spices and cutting the maple syrup/honey successful half, for serving with a steaming vessel of soup.

The optional “mix-ins” tin beryllium immoderate you privation them to be, from figurative crockery to literal nuts, and tin instrumentality the muffins successful each sorts of directions. Also cognize that the carrots could beryllium swapped for shredded beets, parsnips oregon adjacent grated butternut squash oregon zucchini.

The muffins tin beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 3 days. Warm successful a 300-degree oven, oregon divided and toast, earlier serving.

From cookbook writer Julia Turshen.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per muffin (based connected 20, utilizing low-fat buttermilk and maple syrup)

• Calories

  90

• Fat

  1 g

• Carbohydrates

  17 g

• Sodium

  140 mg

• Cholesterol

  20 mg

• Protein

  3 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  8 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer Julia Turshen.

Tested by Anne DiGiulio.