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Healthy Bran Muffins with Mixed Fruit, Walnuts and Flaxseeds

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Healthy Bran Muffins with Mixed Fruit, Walnuts and Flaxseeds

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 cup wholewheat flour
  • 1 3/4 cup Hodgson Mill oat bran
  • 1 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/3 cup nonfat dry milk
  • 1/4 cup ground flaxseeds
  • 4 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 2 cup shredded carrot
  • 2 cup chopped Granny Smith apple
  • 1 cup dried cranberries
  • 1/4 cup toasted walnut halves, crush
  • 1 cup fat-free milk
  • 1/4 cup canola oil
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 3 large egg whites
  • 1 thin-skinned orange,unpeeled and quartered
  • Cooking spray

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Lightly spoon flours into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flours and the next 8 ingredients (flour through salt) in a large bowl and stir well with a whisk. Add carrots, apples, nuts and dried cranberries.                               
  3. Combine milk, oil, vanilla, egg whites and orange in a blender or food processor and process until smooth. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture, add milk mixture, and stir until moist.
  4. Spoon 3 Tbsp. of muffin batter into each of 28 muffin cups coated with cooking spray.
  5. Bake in batches for 20 minutes or until browned and spring back when touched lightly in the center.
  6. Remove the muffins from pans immediately and place on a wire rack.

Nutritional Analysis (1 muffin):
Calories: 120
Fat: 3 g (24%)
Protein: 3.6 g
Carbohydrates: 23 g
Fiber: 3 g
Omega-3: 0.5 g

Recipe provided by Cooper Clinic Nutrition Services.