Quinoa muffins and quinoa bread

These are packed full of protein and nutritious goodness! My littles aren’t keen on quinoa as a side dish so I got creative and adapted some online recipes to come up with these gems.

What you’ll need:

  • 1 cup cooked quinoa

  • 1 cup whole wheat flour

  • 3 tbsp brown sugar

  • 1 egg

  • 2 ripe mashed bananas

  • 1/2 cup almond milk (sub skim.. preferred milk)

  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

  • 2 tbsp flax or chia

  • 1 tsp baking powder

  • 1/2 tsp salt

Process:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees

  • Mash bananas, add egg, vanilla, and milk; stir until combined.

  • Add the remaining ingredients; combine

  • Pour into muffin tins for muffins, or a bread tin for bread.

  • For muffins bake at 350 for approx 25-30 mins. For bread 350 for 50-60 mins.

I added a fruit spread to serve as they can taste as healthy as they are otherwise! Add ins would be: cinnamon, chocolate chips, frozen blueberries…

Completely cool and freeze for batch baking.

Nicola Manton