Prep. Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: about 15 minutes
Ingredients:
Muffins:
• 375 ml (1½ cup) self-raising flour
• 3 ml (generous ½ teaspoon) baking powder
• A pinch of salt
• 125 ml (½ cup) oat bran
• 100 ml olive oil
• 2 eggs
• 250 ml (1 cup) plain yoghurt
• 1 – 2 feta cheese wheels, crumbled
• 2 green apples, peeled, cored and cut into pieces
Vegetable Hummus:
• 125 ml (½ cup) steamed vegetables such as beetroot, butternut and peas, chopped
• 15 ml (1 tablespoon) ground cumin
• 250 ml (1 cup) cooked chickpeas
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 45 ml (3 tablespoons) lemon juice
• 60 ml (¼ cup) olive oil
• A pinch of salt
• 10 ml (2 teaspoons) sesame seed paste or sesame seeds
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease a muffin tin.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the bran.
- In a separate bowl whisk together the oil, eggs and yogurt until just blended. Make a well in the flour mixture and add the oil mixture.
- Add the cheese and apple and mix. Spoon into the tin hollows and bake for 12 – 15 minutes.
- Leave the muffins to cool in the tin.
Hummus:
- Blitz the ingredients in a processor.
You magazine 26 January 2012