We love muffins in our house! The kids think they are cupcakes, which they are, minus the frosting. We have been juicing a lot and I have been trying to be resourceful and waste as little as I can. When I see all that precious pulp I always say Im going to reuse it, but it typically gets fed to our worms (yes, we have worms! Thousands of them!) I don’t feel bad composting the discarded fruit and veggie fiber, but I have been wanting to make use of them in other ways. Although the kids are pretty good about eating their veggies, I am always looking for ways to increase our servings. I decided that juice pulp muffins would be perfect- turns out I was right! This post will share with you an easy, yummy recipe for homemade fiber muffins.
2 cups of flour
½ cup of organic sugar
3 teaspoons of baking powder
½ teaspoon of salt
¾ cup of water (you can add juice if you want the muffins to be sweeter)
1/3 cup of oil (I use sunflower or coconut)
1 egg
1 tablespoon of ground cinnamon
1/2 cup of apple or pulp(beets help tint the muffins pink, orange helps to add some yumminess and don’t forget the greens!)
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Grease bottoms of muffin (or mini!) tins
In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon and slat. Mix well. In a small bowl, combine water (juice), oil and egg. Blend well. Add dry ingredients all at once to the wet, stirring until just combined (batter will be lumpy). Stir in pulp.
Fill tins 2/3 full. Bake for 18-20 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for a few minutes before removing from pan. Wonderful served warm!
So easy and so yummy! My kids go crazy for them! Next time I might even add some extra chopped fruit and even some chopped nuts. I might even get really adventurous and try to make pulp pancakes!
I would love to hear of the great ways you reuse juice pulp!
