Would you like low-calorie and dietary baked goods? I suggest making soft and aromatic pumpkin muffins and cookies from one dough.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Many gardeners ask themselves an eternal question, especially in the autumn season, when they carry a harvest of bright orange pumpkins from summer cottages? And for many, the range of dishes made from this vegetable is quite limited: porridge, pancakes and casseroles. Although you can make a great roast from it, bake pumpkin with honey, make pancakes, make mousse, jam, and much more. Of course, all the recipes are for an amateur, but everyone will find for himself what he likes. And today I want to propose to cook amazingly tender, fluffy, sunny, fragrant and sweet cupcakes. Pumpkin gives baked goods a warm pleasant yellow-orange color, and additional flavoring additives completely muffle it, not everyone has a pleasant smell.
It is also impossible not to mention the benefits of the vegetable. Pumpkin pulp contains a lot of beta-carotene, which is nicknamed "the elixir of longevity"! It also contains a large amount of vitamins and minerals that are useful for maintaining the immune system (vitamin C); preserves skin color, beautiful hair and youthfulness (vitamin E); strengthens bones and heart (potassium and calcium); has a beneficial effect on the level of hemoglobin (copper and iron); replenishes the body with rare vitamins T and K. In general, it is possible to list what the red-haired autumn beauty is rich and full of for a long time. Therefore, let's move on to the cooking recipe itself.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 198 kcal.
- Servings - 15
- Cooking time - 50 minutes
Ingredients:
- Pumpkin - 300 g
- Orange - 1 pc.
- Bran - 50 g
- Oat flakes - 100 g
- Walnuts or other nuts - 50 g
- Brown sugar - 2 tablespoons or to taste
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
Cooking pumpkin muffins
1. Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds, wash and cut into slices.
2. Dip the pumpkin into a saucepan, cover with water and boil until soft. Readiness is checked by piercing the plug. After that, drain the water, and chop the pulp with a blender. If you don't have such a kitchen appliance, use a regular mashed potato pusher. By the way, you don't need to drain the water in which the vegetable was cooked, but use it to cook soup, make stews, pancakes, etc.
3. Dip half of the oatmeal into the chopper or grinder.
4. Turn the oatmeal into flour. If regular oat flour is available, you can use it.
5. Now combine all dry ingredients: oatmeal (flour and flakes), bran (can be any), walnuts (crushed or crumbled), brown sugar.
6. Stir all ingredients.
7. Add pumpkin puree to a container to bulk products and mix well.
8. Wash the orange and grate its zest on a fine grater. You can squeeze out orange juice if you like.
9. Separate the white from the yolk.
10. Beat the yolk with a blender or mixer until smooth with bubbles.
11. Pour the yolk into the dough.
12. Stir the yolk into the mixture.
13. Whisk the whites until a thick, stable foam. The readiness of proteins can be determined as follows. Turn the bowl over with them, they should remain motionless: do not drip, do not fall out, do not flow out.
14. Add the protein foam to the dough.
15. Gently, in several movements, mix the protein into the dough.
16. Grease tins for muffins or muffins with butter or vegetable oil and fill them 2/3 of the way with dough. If you use silicone molds, then you can not lubricate them with anything, baked goods are very conveniently removed from them.
17. If you have any dough left, like mine, then make cookies. To do this, grease the baking sheet with any fat and spread the dough with a tablespoon. It will not be possible to form it with your hands, but thanks to the proteins, it will steadily keep its shape.
18. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and send muffins with cookies to bake.
19. When the product is covered with a golden crust, after about 35-40 minutes, it means that it is ready and can be removed from the oven. Also check the readiness by piercing a splinter or toothpick - it must be dry.
20. Sprinkle the finished cookies with powdered sugar and serve with fresh coffee.
21. Do the same with cupcakes. But first, they need to be given a little time to cool down so that they can be easily removed from their forms. Then decorate them to your liking. You can coat with chocolate or protein icing.
See also the video recipe on how to make pumpkin muffins.
