• Home
  • About
    • Privacy Policy
    • Work with Me
    • Media Kit
    • Evolv Health: Valerie’s Story
    • Personal Stories
    • Press
    • Year in Review
  • Thermomix® Independent Consultant
    • Thermomix® Independent Consultant
    • Client Testimonials
    • Recipes Developed by Valerie
  • Projects
    • Cheesepalooza
      • Cheesepalooza Challenges
      • Cheesepalooza Participants
      • Preparation for Cheesepalooza!
      • Basic Ingredient and Supply List
      • Ingredient and Matierial Suppliers
    • Dueling Daughters Project 2014
    • Eat Alberta
    • Gramsy Glimpses
      • Gramsy Glimpses Vignettes
    • Project 2019: Valerie’s Personal Evolv Health Story
    • Project 2017: Cooking in the Kitchen With….
      • Completed Project 2017 Posts: Cooking in the Kitchen With….
      • Project 2017: Cooking in the Kitchen With… PARTICIPATE
      • Project 2017: Cooking in the Kitchen with….Schedule
    • Slow Food Edmonton Tastings
      • Participate!
    • The Canadian Food Experience Project
      • Participate!
      • Participants
      • Challenges and Round Ups
      • Canadian Food Heroes Series
  • Events
    • Baby Shower
    • Food Blogger Meetings
    • Promotions
    • Restaurant Reviews
    • Reviews (Products, Books, and Events)
  • Philosophy
    • In a Nutshell
    • Local Produce/Producers
    • Slow Food
    • Teaching
  • Travel
    • Bosnia
    • British Columbia
    • California
    • Croatia
    • Culinary Tourism
    • Farmer’s Markets
    • France
    • Greece
    • Hawaii
    • Italy
    • Louisiana
    • Maritime Provinces
    • Massachusetts
    • Mexico
    • Montenegro
    • Nova Scotia
    • Prince Edward Island
    • Quebec
    • Serbia
    • United Kingdom
    • Utah
  • Trends
  • Store
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Policy for A Canadian Foodie
  • Valerie’s Image

A Canadian Foodie

Canadian Food Recipes; Preserving Canadian Food Practices

  • A La Carte
    • Appetizers
    • Drinks
    • Evolv Health Reboot Recipes
      • Reboot Phase 1 Mains
    • Garnishes
    • Salads
    • Sauces Dressings Rubs
    • Sides
    • Soups and Stocks
  • Breakfast & Brunch
  • Cheese
    • Blue/Stinky
    • Firm
    • Fresh
    • Hard/Pressed
    • Cheesepalooza Challenge
    • Cheesepalooza Round Up
  • Desserts
    • Cakes
    • Cookies, Bars and Squares
      • Christmas Cookies
    • Ice Cream, Sorbets and Frozen Yogurt
    • Icings/Frosting and Pastry Creams
    • Other
    • Pies and Tarts
    • Puddings
    • Sweets and Treats
  • Doughs and Crusts
    • Biscuits
    • Bread Buns and Flatbread
    • Crackers
    • Donuts, Frybreads and Such
    • Dumplings etc
    • Pasta
    • Pastry
  • Mains
    • Beef
    • Casseroles
    • Chicken/Duck/Goose/Turkey
    • Marinades and Rubs
    • Pasta Dishes
    • Pork
    • Potluck
    • Savory Pies Pastries
    • Seafood and Fish
    • Stews
    • Vegetarian
    • Veal
    • Wild Game
    • Wraps Pizzas Casual Food
  • Seasonal
    • Autumn
    • Spring
    • Summer
    • Winter
    • Holiday
      • Christmas
  • Gardens
    • Foraging
    • My Garden and From My Garden
    • Preserves
    • Zone Three Harvest
  • Tastings
  • Kids
  • Canadian Food
    • Atlantic Provinces
    • Canadian Aboriginal Food
    • Canadian Berries
    • Canadian Cakes
    • Canadian Doughs
    • Canadian Drinks
    • Canadian Fish
    • Canadian Food Heroes
    • Canadian Food Main
    • Desserts
    • Grandma Maude’s Family Recipes
    • Mom Helen’s Famous Family Recipes
    • Canadian Products
    • Sunday Suppers
    • Wild Food

Gramsy’s Healthy Veggie Muffins: Build Strong Minds and Bodies!

February 15, 2017 by Valerie Lugonja 4 Comments

Gramsy’s Healthy Veggie Muffins: packed with vegetables, fruit and whole grains

Gramsy’s Veggie Muffins rule! Gramsy loves to go to Salt Lake City and stay with Lauren and Aaron to take care of Prince William and give mommy a break. Of course I love to cook for them when I go, but Lauren really likes to do that herself. So I find my joy with caring for William while she does what she loves without interruption. However, every now and then, she asks me to help her out. This was one of those times. She found a recipe for veggie packed muffins and is always looking for healthy nutrition packed breakfast, dinner and snack foods for William because he’s often not interested in meal time foods. He’s a grazer. I took the recipe she gave to me that inspired my revision for the Thermomix machine and made it our own with a tweak or two.

He helped me make them, in that he was watching and stirring and pushing buttons. He could not wait to “have one? have one?”. And when he woke up from his nap and they were baked, after the first bite, he announced, “Deeee-licious!” How I wished I got that on video. He repeated it many other time, but never when the camera was nearby, of course.

Every morning thereafter, he would wake up and mommy would say, “What would you like for breakfast today, Wills?” He would answer, “Milky and Mmmmuffins!!!”

The first time, he ate three mini muffins, one after the other with such relish and gusto we knew unquestionably that this recipe was going into the family archives.

Lauren loved the Super Healthy Kids website and that’s where she found the recipe that inspired this concoction. Same main ingredients, but no sugar, more whole wheat flour, no juice, more veggies…. etc.

Gramsy’s Healthy Veggie Muffins: Mis en Place

Getting everything organized was a blast. He was nibbling on broccoli pieces, carrot bits, a bit of zucchini – basically tasting his way through the ingredients to go into the muffins as I prepared them. When I photographed the mis en place, he crawled up onto the table and kept trying to snatch some more… so we made a little game of it… I would count to three and he would snatch and I would try to capture a photo.

A very intent little Prince working with Gramsy to make some healthy veggie muffins!

Snacking on cheese while patiently listening to what Gramsy was telling him she was doing.

Could not wait for his turn to stir and add ingredients into a bowl.

I added 1/2 cup more of whole wheat flour and 1/2 cup less of white flour than the recipe that Lauren provided for me.

I did not add any juice, but increased the yogurt by a little extra mound.

The wet ingredients all into the bowl. We did use sugar the first time, but they muffin was quite sweet, so I changed the sugar to honey and reduced that by 1/2.

Added a whole apple instead of 1/2 and a cup of broccoli after it was steamed and minced instead of a cup of broccoli to be steamed, then minced. It is about double the amount in the initial recipe.

Gramsy’s Healthy Veggie Muffins: Puréeing the Veggies and Fruit

Mince the carrots first as they are most fibrous and need that extra blitz. Add the next most dense fruit and vegetables to mince.

Broccoli was done by hand as it was steamed and then measured after mincing, so add it with the banana for the last second to combine all.

If you have a soupy purée instead of a course purée like the one above, do not panic. It will still taste delicious, but the texture will not be as interesting or as colourful. Older children may like even a courser mince instead of a purée, but I prefer this mixture so there are specs of colour and texture in the muffin.

Gramsy’s Healthy Veggie Muffins: Preparing the Wet Ingredients

Honey, vanilla, room temperature butter and egg is whisked together until completely incorporated.

Gramsy’s Healthy Veggie Muffins: Adding the Wet Ingredients to the Fruit and Veggie Mixture

Apple sauce and yogurt is added to the wet ingredients along with the puréed vegetables and fruits.

There is such love and a vibrant sense or self fulfillment when making homemade delicious, nutritious and economical food for a growing brain and body. So much more gratifying than buying something that says it is organic, gmo free and healthy. I know that is in these muffins. To be responsible for the fibers that contribute to the growth of your most precious little being is the ultimate and most sacred trust and a gift that must be honored.

Gramsy’s Healthy Veggie Muffins: Adding the Dry Ingredients

I cannot wait to make these with my own home ground Canadian Red Fife whole wheat. The texture will be chewier, the flavour tastier and the muffin, healthier.

Gramsy’s Healthy Veggie Muffins: Making the Muffins

Little cups of goodness waiting for the oven.

Gramsy’s Healthy Veggie Muffins: Baking the Muffins

Puffed to perfection, these little muffins are dense, moist, pleasingly tasty and filled with powerful energy for that little love in your life.

Gramsy’s Healthy Veggie Muffins: Eating the Muffins

“Deee-licious!”

Veggies for breakfast, yes-siree. Not raw, but none the less, nutritious.

“Deeee-licious!”

And economical. Mommy and Gramsy really enjoyed them, too!

Veggie Muffins
4.5 from 2 votes
Print

Gramsy's Healthy Veggie Muffins



Packed with broccoli, zucchini, carrots, apples, banana and whole wheat flour, these muffins provide vitamins, minerals and lots of healthy energy for your young toddler as a snack or breakfast food.
Course Muffins
Cuisine Canadian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 36 miniature muffins
Author Valerie Lugonja

Ingredients

  • 1½ cup whole wheat flour
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ cup honey (1/2 cup sugar used in photographed recipe)
  • 4 tablespoon butter , room temperature
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup steamed and finely chopped broccoli (start with 2 cups chunked broccoli)
  • 1 medium zucchini , chunked
  • 1 large carrot , peeled and chunked
  • 1 medium apple , quartered
  • 1 banana , quartered
  • ½ cup applesauce , unsweetened
  • ¼ cup plain thick yogurt (generous quarter cup)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350F; fill mini muffin pans with papers
  2. Combine flours, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon in bowl; set aside
  3. Combine honey, butter, eggs and vanilla into large bowl for electric mixer; beat well to fully incorporate
  4. In food processor, combine steamed broccoli, carrots, zucchini, apple, and banana; pulse until puree-like
  5. Add yogurt and fruit veggie mixture into wet ingredient mixture (sugar/butter/eggs); whisk until fully combined
  6. Add dry ingredients; mix until just combined: may be a little lumpy with dry ingredients still apparent
  7. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups; fill each ¾ full
  8. Bake for 18-20 minutes until tops are slightly golden and bounce back when touched with finger
  9. Freeze in labeled and dated bag for up to three months

Instructions for Making in Thermomix Machine

  1. Preheat oven to 350F; fill mini muffin pans with papers
  2. Weigh flours, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon in bowl; set aside
  3. Weigh sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla into TM bowl and whisk for 30 seconds at speed 2.5 until fully incorporated; remove and set aside
  4. Place carrots into TM bowl; mince for 1 second on Turbo and repeat
  5. Add zucchini and apple to TM bowl; mince for 1 second on Turbo and repeat
  6. Add steamed broccoli, banana, apple sauce into TM bowl; mince for 1 second on Turbo
  7. Add yogurt and dry ingredient mixture (flours, etc) back into TM bowl with wet ingredients; stir slowly for 5 seconds on soft stir to level 1.5 until dry ingredients are just incorporated into wet and streaks of dry ingredients still visually apparent
  8. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups; fill each ¾ full
  9. Bake for 18-20 minutes until tops are slightly golden and bounce back when touched with finger
  10. Freeze in labeled and dated bag for up to three months

Recipe Notes

½ cup red lentil flour can be added for a great colour and nutritional punch (grind the red lentils in the Thermomix or a flour mill)

Veggie MuffinsVeggie Muffins

Long pic for Pinterest posting, below.

Veggie Muffins

Tweet
Pin31
Share12
43 Shares

Filed Under: Breakfast and Brunch Foods, Breakfasts, Healthy Breakfast Foods, Muffins and Breakfast Cakes Tagged With: Apple, Applesauce, Banana, Broccoli, Carrots, Cinnamon, Eggs, Flour, Honey, Nutmeg, Whole Wheat Flour, Yogurt, Zucchini

About Valerie Lugonja

Like what you see? SUBSCRIBE TO A CANADIAN FOODIE
Educator, Writer, Gardener and Traveler who believes in buying and eating locally, and most importantly cooking at home! As a brand new Gramsy, so be prepared to hear a lot about this new role in her life!
Please connect with Valerie to buy a Thermomix Machine!

« Russian Dumplings: Valerie in the Kitchen with Nadja (Pelmeni-like, Mantji, Boraki)
Canadian Maple Syrup Taffy Candy: An Eastern Canadian Tradition »

You might also enjoy...

Tiramisu Ice Cream
Tiramisu Ice Cream: A New Favourite Recipe Summer of 2020
Keto Bacon Gruyere Egg Cups
Keto Bacon Gruyere Egg Cups: The BEST Starbucks Impersonator
Keto Beef Zucchini Lasagna
Keto Beef Zucchini Lasagna: Project 2019 Evolv Health Total Reboot
Garlic Schnitzel
Minute Steak Series: Vanja’s Garlic Schnitzel is a Weeknight Favourite
Breville Barista Express Series: Features and Functions

Comments

  1. Julien Tremblay says

    February 29, 2020 at 9:57 pm

    5 stars
    This recipe of muffins looks so good! I was really happy to see your little one on the page too, I really hope they are well. 🙂 thanks for sharing great content like this and keep doing the great job!

    Reply
    • Valerie Lugonja says

      March 27, 2020 at 9:30 am

      We are all well today, Julien,
      Thank you – though far from one another.
      I look forward to the time we get together and hug each other, love each other up – and bake together again on the other side of this coronavirus global pandemic.
      Hugs to you and yours.
      Valerie

      Reply
  2. Enid says

    October 31, 2021 at 10:06 am

    4 stars
    Very interesting ingredients. Love the flavors. I need to work on thé fluffy:( I got the fullness but thought I could bake it a little longer. Mistake! When I removed it from the oven the muffins had no rise, & difficult to remove from the paper cups. Maybe turn gas oven temp to 375?
    Any ideas please

    Reply
    • Valerie Lugonja says

      November 2, 2021 at 8:38 pm

      Hi Enid,
      Sorry. I wrote what works consistently for me. There are so many variables when baking. I am in Edmonton Alberta Canada – so very North. I have baked these at my daughter’s in Utah, though, with a great result – in the photos here. Maybe others can offer you suggestions.
      Sincerely,
      Valerie

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Search

Thermomix® Independent Consultant; Executive Team Lead Alberta

Weekly Newsletter

Saturday Morning News

Nico Moretti

More Thermomix Recipes etc »

Preserved Evans Cherries

Sour or Tart Preserved and Dried Evans Cherries: A Canadian Foodie Original

More ACF Famous Recipes or Specialties»

Giant Stuffed Spinach and Ricotta Pasta Shells

More Winter Recipes »

Homemade Angel Food Cake: A Canadian Prairie Celebratory Tradition

More Recipes from my mom Helen »

Connect With Me!

  • Bloglovin
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
projects

My Post Archives

Come On In And Kiss the Cook

Educator, Writer, Gardener and Traveler who believes in buying and eating locally, and most importantly cooking at home! [Read More …]

Connect With Me

  • Bloglovin
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Ragan’s Canadian Cookie Exchange 2015

More Canadian Recipes »

Lifetime Achievement Award

Canadian Web Blog Award 2013 www.acanadianfoodie.com FIRST

Vote-for-me
Best in Food NEW
This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: No feed found.

Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to create a feed.

Copyright © 2023 · Website by PoundPig