This is THE bran muffin recipe. I tweaked to suit my tastes and points...and cooking ability...lol (i could not for the life of me get them to rise)
but this is the ORIGINAL recipe which works out at 4pp per muffin
100ml Skimmed Milk
100g Plain Flour
60g Wheat Bran
60g Soft Brown Sugar
1/2 tsp bicarbonate soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
pinch of cinnamon
1 Whole egg
if using berries 125g of chopped berries eg blueberries, raspberries, strawberries.
if using banana's about 2 and 1/2 soft mashed bananas per 6 muffins
1. Preheat the oven to 190C (gas mark 5)
2. Put skimmed milk and wheat bran and soak for few minutes.
3. While bran is soaking beat sugar and eggs untill well combined and then mix into above bran mixture.
4. Sift in the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, bicarbonate soda. Fold in GENTLY with a metal spoon. Stir in the berries to distribute them evenly througout the mixture.
5. Devide into 6 paper cases in a muffin tin.
6 Bake in preheated oven for 20 - 30 mins (until the muffins are well risen and firm to the touch, timing can very to oven to oven)
7. Cool on wire rack, then store in airtight tin or seeled container in fridge.
NI per serving
143kcal
2g fat
0.5 sats
12.8 sugar
4.7g fibre
0.4g salts
This is the NI given in the cook book, I used the ww online recipe builder (im an online member) to point the recipe...
Changes I made along the way:
I use self raising flour and 1tsp of both baking powder + bicarbonate
I sift the flour TWICE. to add air to the mixture.
When combining wet to dry mixture...from research online...I learned to should NOT beat it too much...and you should still see lil tiny pockets of dry flour.
I prefer banana's over berries (theyre cheaper...and supermarkets sell soft old banana at 1/2 price)
I also only use 40g instead of 60g of soft brown sugar and reduced the bran from 60g to 30g.
This means they are only 3pp per muffin.
I love the banana taste so i kinda bumped it up to 3 bananas per 6 muffins...bananas have natural sugars that will sweeten the recipe.
I also find they freeze exceptionally well...and only take about an hour to defrost. DO NOT thaw in microwave. they go hard!
If you find them too dry just omit some of the bran wheat.
they're a great source of fibre...nearly 5g per muffin! great for when your bloated!
Enjoy with a 11g sachet (1pp) of Options hot chocolate for a yummy low fat 4pp snack!
