Left is my wild blueberry muffin, right is Medical Medium’s wild blueberry muffin, both delicious
Two very different, but delicious banana wild blueberry muffin recipes are what’s satisfying my desire for a healthy, nourishing treat since the holidays. One is my own recipe that uses almond flour and gluten-free flour as the base, and the other is a Medical Medium recipe that uses oat flour and chia seeds as the base. They both feature wild blueberries and bananas, but turn out so remarkably different that it seems worth telling you about.
Here are links for both recipes:
My wild blueberry muffin recipe sticks to a traditional muffin look and feel. The texture is moist and fluffy, and they’re hearty and packed with blueberry flavor. The only sweetening in them is from the bananas, so there’s no need to harbor guilt about eating too much sugar. They’re the perfect snack for holding you over until the next meal, because the almond flour provides protein and healthy fats that are great at staving off hunger pains.
The Medical Medium wild blueberry muffin recipe results in a curious little mouthful that doesn’t really resemble muffins at all, yet they’re delicious and it’s easy to pop a whole bunch of them in your mouth before you know what happened. The recipe calls for making them in mini muffin cups, but I made them in regular sized muffin cups and they shrunk so much after baking that they became mini anyway. Take a look at the photo above – both muffins started out with the same amount of batter in the muffin cup. It wasn’t obvious that they were going to turn into mini muffins while baking, because they puffed up like a normal muffins do. Now that I go back and look again at the Medical Medium’s photo, it looks like his also shrunk dramatically. That’s okay, though, and not something to be alarmed about. That’s because those little buggers pack a huge pop of blueberry flavor.
Texture differences between Medical Medium muffins on the left and my muffin recipe on the right
While we’re on the topic of how delicious the Medical Medium muffins are, I also have to talk about texture. They don’t have the crumbly, cake-like texture you expect of muffins. They’re really moist, but kind of chewy and spongy – sort of like bread pudding. It’s not a bad mouth-feel, but not what you’d expect from a muffin. I’m guessing the unusual texture mainly comes from the chia seeds. As I said before, they’re different, but once you accept the difference in texture, you realize they’re yummy and it’s easy to keep popping them in your mouth.
Both muffins taste great, stave off hunger, freeze well, and are a convenient snack. I heartily recommend them, and of course, the very best thing about writing about them this morning is that I got to eat them after taking the photos. Yum!!!!!
The pretty yellow plate used in the photos is a Fiesta plate, which you can find on Amazon.com:
Fiesta 5-Piece Place Setting, Sunflower
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