Friday, March 19, 2010

Chunky banana bran muffins

This weekend Dave has a big run, so I decided to make some healthy breakfast food for him (and me): chunky banana bran muffins.

This is another Ina recipe, from Barefoot Contessa at Home. It has a lot of ingredients, but it's worth it to make this awesomely healthy muffin.


Look at that beautiful thing. You can actually SEE the banana chunks.

Anyway, you take wheat bran (I got mine from Whole Foods) and mix with buttermilk, then mix all the wet ingredients together in a separate bowl (butter, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, and molasses). Then you add in the buttermilk/bran mixture, mix, and sift in flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. After it's just mixed, you fold in chunks of banana, tons of raisins, and chopped walnuts.

Yeah. Like I said, this recipe has a ton of healthy stuff in it. Dave and I split one of these for dessert, and it was pretty happy. We'll probably have a couple for breakfast tomorrow and Sunday, and they'll be easy to bring to the hotel. (Our friends got a free hotel to stay downtown for the race, so we're all pow-wowing together and getting up at 5 a.m. or whatever it is. Yay for portable (and delicious!) muffins!

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