Emerald Isles Eats: Green Banana Bliss Muffins

Green Comic Muffins are the wordplay to all picky eaters! Every parent needs that one sweet treat recipe that can powerfully sneak in a portion of veggies, for when the little ones are vicarial fussy! These comic muffins are soft, light and zappy and packed with greens that you won’t be worldly-wise to taste at all. When your kiddo asks for a snack, tell them there’s ‘Hulk’ muffins waiting for them and watch them love every bite!

These untried comic “Hulk” muffins are one of those recipes – a tried and tested favorite of mine. When I say tried and tested, I midpoint on children! I’ve never met a kid who doesn’t like these muffins, they’re a hit amongst Mahi and her friends. (And if I’m stuff honest, they’re a hit amongst us moms, too!) 

Made using sweet overripe schizy and some spinach (pureed!) and zucchini (grated!); these muffins pack nutrition and work unconfined for anything –as a tiffin snack, a healthy breakfast, or dessert! 

The thrash for these muffins comes together really quickly and they torch in well-nigh 15 mins making them the perfect quick fix for those spotty schizy you’ve got sitting on the counter top. These moreover freeze really well, so you can make a big batch and microwave them when you are ready to serve. 

• This recipe is quick - Only 15 mins sultry time!
• It packs in a good serving of fruits and veggies - perfect for kids
• It’s a unconfined way to use up overripe bananas
• It’s super versatile – you can serve this any time and it’ll unchangingly be a treat

Ingredients You'll Need to make Untried Comic Muffins

• Bananas - Use overripe schizy for that natural sweetness that makes these muffins so YUM!
• All Purpose Flour (Maida) - Maida is a light flour, we don’t want our muffins to be too dense. If you want you can do a 50:50 all purpose flour to whole wheat flour mix.  We’re going for a soft and zappy texture here.
• Zucchini - Grated and widow to the batter. We stratify this lightly in the maida so that it is incorporated throughout the muffin and does not sink to the bottom. 
• Spinach - Blanched, cooled and then pureed. The puree is what gives these “Hulk” muffins their color!
• Cinnamon - For flavor, I just love subtracting spices when I torch – the kitchen smelling good is an widow bonus!
• Vanilla - You can add pericope or fresh vanilla pods - both will work here. 
• Brown Sugar - I like using brown sugar here, it has a richer savor than white sugar considering it contains molasses that just taste so good when baked. 
• Butter - We surf together some butter and brown sugar to form the wiring of the thrash - this step is important as it will make the muffins moist and fluffy, with that spongy and springy texture that we love. 

How to Make Untried Comic Muffins

1. Preheat the oven to 200C. Squeeze out all the water from the zucchini and discard it. Add 1-2 spoonfuls of the flour to the zucchini. Mix well until the flour coats the zucchini. Set aside.

2. Surf the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Ensure the butter turns paler in colour.

3. Add in the egg and protract vibration at upper speed. Once combined, add mashed comic and vanilla pericope and write-up until well combined.

4. Sift together the remaining flour, sultry powder, sultry soda and salt in a mixing bowl. Add the sifted flours to the trencher and fold with a rubber spatula until combined. Ensure there are no lumps.

5. Now add the zucchini flour mix and cinnamon powder to the trencher and use the spatula to combine. Transfer the thrash into greased muffin tins (or with muffin liners) and fill them up upto ¾th capacity.

6. Add the spinach puree and protract to fold until combined.

7. Transfer the tin to the oven and torch for 7 minutes at 200C and then reduce the temperature to 180C. Protract sultry for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

8. Remove from the oven once washed-up and indulge to tomfool surpassing demoulding.

Richa’s Top Tricks to Make Untried Comic Muffins

1. Make sure not to over-mix the batter, we just want to incorporate the ingredients together and it’s okay if you see some small chunks of unmixed maida in the batter. Over-mixing and trying to get that perfectly smooth thrash will unquestionably result in a denser bake.

2. Lightly stratify the grated zucchini in all-purpose flour first surpassing mixing in the batter. This will prevent the zucchini from sinking to the marrow of the muffins. 

3. Only fill the muffin moulds ¾ths of the way since these muffins rise quite a bit. 

More Ideas

• You can replace the grated zucchini with grated lauki (bottle gourd) 
• If you want to try a variegated variant of this recipe, you can replace spinach puree for:
  • Beetroot puree
  • Pumpkin puree

Or if you’re feeling creative, you can make a big batch of all three! Just separate your thrash into 3 containers and add the purees individually. Colorful muffins, here we come! Green, pink, and orange spiced comic muffins – what a treat. Increasingly colors, increasingly veggies, is there anything better? 

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. I am vegetarian. Can I make this without egg?

Using eggs helps to hold together all the ingredients well. However, you can replace it and use flax eggs (1 tablespoon flaxmeal 3tbsp water for 1 flax egg) – this works and is a good vegetarian alternative.

2. I don’t have muffin molds. Can I make this in a confection pan?

Yes, you can still torch this in a confection pan and cut it into zest sized pieces. It’ll still be succulent and an easy snack for the lil ones. If you have individual ramekins, you can torch this in those as well. 

3. My thrash is looking thick. Should I add milk to thin it out?

This thrash is meant to be on the thicker side. It does not need any milk or uneaten mixing. Just trust the process! 

4. Can you taste the vegetables in these muffins?

Not at all! You’ll just taste the sweet schizy and the cinnamon. It’s delicious.

It’s not easy to plan and serve meals for kids. Some days, there’s just so much going on that it becomes difficult to prep something from scratch. Having these muffins on hand is such a life saver for those times. I just make a big batch and freeze them, reheating when needed. 

And when your kiddos get those afternoon hunger pangs, you can serve them this and know that they’ll happily eat it and get a serve of veggies in, too. 

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