Flourless Protein Banana Muffins
Make these Protein Banana Muffins for an easy, healthy high protein snack or breakfast. Perfect for grab and go and ready in 30 minutes!
Servings: 12 muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup plain Greek yogurt any fat percentage will work
- 2 spotty bananas
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 1.5 cups rolled oats
- ½ cup vanilla protein powder or unflavoured *see notes below
- 1.5 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- ¼ cup chocolate chips optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400F and prepare a 12-cavity muffin tray (I recommend using a silicone baking tray for best results).
- In a high powered blender add greek yogurt, bananas, eggs, vanilla extract and maple syrup. Add oats, protein powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Blend until smooth (about 2-3 minutes).
- Divide the batter between the 12 muffin cavities. If using, top each muffin with chocolate chips, gently stirring each to combine. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the batter comes out clean.
Notes
I find mini chocolate chips work best in this recipe. I have tested the batter using larger chocolate chips and they seem to be heavier, resulting in them sinking to the bottom of the muffins.
If you are choosing to omit the protein powder, I recommend substituting with an additional ½ cup of oats or ½ cup almond flour.
*I have included an estimation of the nutrition information for this recipe below. However, always remember a recipe is so much more than just nutritional content and these numbers do not need to dictate your food choices. Please don't forget that both your body and soul need nourishment! The owner of this website is not liable for this estimation.
Nutrition
Serving: 1muffin | Calories: 132kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Trans Fat: 0.003g | Cholesterol: 37mg | Sodium: 128mg | Potassium: 186mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 53IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 91mg | Iron: 1mg
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