Sunday, April 10, 2005

Kosher lite Blueberry Muffins

I've been looking for a low-fat blueberry muffin recipe that isn't chock full of artificial sweeteners. Most recipes either go overboard with healthiness, substituting wheat bran and oatmeal for normal flour, or they're loaded up with so much butter and eggs they're a gazillion calories each. This is my personal compromise. These light and fluffy low fat muffins are moist but still pleasantly sweet. They're not healthy, but they're not cholesterol-o-rific, either.
  • 3/4 cup lite vanilla yogurt
  • 1 cup fat free milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 1/2 cup flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup fresh blueberries

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Mix the yogurt, milk, egg, and sugar until smooth. Add the flour, baking soda, and salt and mix well. When the batter is smooth, gently fold in the blueberries. You don't want to overmix them or else they'll fall apart and turn the batter purple.

Either line a muffin pan with paper cups or spritz it with nonstick spray. Fill the cups 1/2 full of batter. Bake at 350F for 18 - 20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Variations:

  • If you're absolutely obsessed with low sugar as well as low fat, substitute 1 cup of Splenda for Baking (the type measured cup for cup like sugar.)
  • To make this recipe parve, substitute plain soy yogurt and vanilla soymilk.
  • If you really want more blueberry flavor, substitute low fat blueberry yogurt for the vanilla. If you do, be prepared for your muffins to be a lovely shade of blue.

Weight Watchers Points: 3 points per muffin. If you make them as mini-muffins, reduce the baking time to 12 - 15 minutes. The mini muffins only have 1 point each.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

These muffin's were so good. Everyone in our family loved them and they were gone in a flash. The only thing i will do different next time is use cooking spray to grease the muffin tin because i used the paper liner's and they were hard to remove. Thank's for a great recipe!