Looking for a muffin that’s not an excuse to eat a cupcake for breakfast? Introducing…this healthy blueberry muffins recipe! It’s a spinoff on our popular blender muffins recipe and uses rolled oats (no flour!), bananas and a little maple syrup for some sweetness. The original gets rave reviews, so we figured it would also be delicious with sweet blueberries. Turns out, this tangy fruit takes them to new heights.
Why make muffins?
What’s so special about these healthy blueberry muffins? With thousands of blueberry muffins recipes on the internet, here are three reasons why you should add these muffins to your arsenal:
They’re made with oats, bananas & berries: no flour! That’s right, there’s no flour at all in these muffins! They’re more like eating oatmeal, a banana, and a handful of blueberries. This also makes them naturally gluten free.Natural sweetener! These muffins have no refined sugar. They are lightly sweetened with maple syrup and banana instead.They’re blender muffins! If you haven’t made blender muffins before, it’s time to start! Somehow whizzing everything together in a blender makes for less mess than a normal muffins recipe.
How to make healthy blueberry muffins
Over here, we feel great feeding these healthy blueberry muffins to our son Larson for breakfast…and to ourselves! They’re full of whole food ingredients, and topped with a little creamy peanut butter, they’ve got everything you need to start the day right. They’re also perfect for snacks. In fact, we’re obsessed with them too. These healthy blueberry muffins are made with (see full recipe below):
Rolled oatsBlueberriesRipe bananas Maple syrupNeutral oilEggsSpices, baking powder, & baking soda
Blend up the batter and mix in the blueberries, then pour the batter into muffin cups. Bake for about 30 minutes at 350 degrees. If you’d like, you can add crunchy turbinado sugar to the tops for an added crunch: or just top them with oats as shown in our banana muffins.
Fresh or frozen blueberries?
This healthy blueberry muffins recipe can work with either fresh or frozen blueberries. However, keep in mind that frozen berries can tint the batter to a purple color! If you plan to use frozen berries, rinse them several times under cold water, then pat them dry with a few layers of paper towels. This helps so they don’t bleed into the batter.
Storing these healthy blueberry muffins
These healthy blueberry muffins work wonderfully frozen! In fact, we freeze these all the time. Typically we’ll make a batch and then put a few in the refrigerator and the rest in the freezer. Then when it comes time for making a snack or lunch for our son Larson, it’s perfect for popping into a lunch box smeared with a bit of peanut butter or almond butter. These muffins should save in the freezer for at least 3 months (maybe more), stored in a sealed freezer safe container.
What are health benefits of oats?
We all probably have heard that blueberries are full of health benefits, from vitamin C to prevention of heart disease. But what about oats? Because these healthy blueberry muffins are mostly made of oats, they bring all the benefits of eating a big bowl of oatmeal! According to the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, oats:
Are high in fiberCan reduce the risk of heart diseaseCan be helpful for weight control
More blueberry recipes
Outside of these healthy blueberry muffins, here are some of our favorite blueberry recipes:
Try cozy and delicious Easy Blueberry Baked OatmealOpt for healthy Blueberry Juice, or a zingy Blueberry Shrub DrinkMake Classic Blueberry Pancakes or Classic Blueberry MuffinsBake up Blueberry Banana Bread or a Blueberry Galette
This healthy blueberry muffins recipe is…
Vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar free, and naturally sweet. 5 from 3 reviews
