healthy sweet potato apple muffins

For the past 3 years I've been hosting a Hudson Harvest Retreat in my hometown. It's a day filled with some of my favorite things: yoga, apple picking, delicious vegetarian food, market browsing and lots of fresh country air. Everyone goes home with a bag of organic apples ready to be eaten.

If you've read my blog before you know that we love muffins in our house. They're great for snacks, and kids love them, so I'm always on the look out for new healthy recipes. With a fresh bag of apples in my fridge and some homemade applesauce, I searched for a new recipe and found a sweet potato muffin recipe from Haute and Healthy Living on Yummly. Yummly is an amazing source for recipes, it's easy to use, and allows you to save recipes, rate them, etc. I altered the sweet potato recipe I found and came up with this...

 

Ingredients

• 1 large sweet potato
• 1/2 cup of unsweetened almond milk
• 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup sunflower oil
• 1/4 cup unsweetened apple sauce
• 3/4 cups of pure maple syrup
• 1 tbsp. of chia seeds
• 2 cups of kamut flour
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. sea salt
• Top with a light sprinkle of chopped walnuts (optional)

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 400F.
2. Peel and chop sweet potato into small chunks. Boil for 10 mins. Mash the sweet potato well in the mixing bowl.
3. Add the milk, vanilla, oil, maple syrup and applesauce (wet ingredients). Add chia seeds and let sit.
4. Combine all of the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl.
5. Fold dry ingredients into wet ingredients until well mixed.
6. Take a muffin tray and spray each muffin round with cooking spray. Pour the muffin mixture evenly into 12 muffin rounds.
7. Bake at 400 for 20 to 25 minutes.
8. Bake another 5 minutes until nothing sticks to a sharp knife when inserted into the center of the muffin.
9. Enjoy when cool enough to bite into. Let them sit a good 10 minutes and they'll lose some of their moisture. At first they may seem very dense.

Nutrients per serving (for one muffin):
Servings: 12 • Calories: 178 • Fat: 5.6 g • Carbohydrates: 31 g • Fibre: 3.4 g • Protein: 3.2 g • Sugar: 14.3 g • Sodium: 227 mg • Cholesterol: 0 mg