Healthy Pumpkin Muffins Recipe
Transforming my beloved pumpkin muffin recipe, loved by countless families, into these healthy pumpkin muffins meant swapping the vegetable oil for olive oil, incorporating greek yogurt, and using less sugar. This took the recipe from 460 calories per muffin to just about 220 calories, but you would never know because they still taste amazing!
Servings: 12 muffins
Ingredients
- 3 cups (360 grams) all-purpose flour
- ½ cup (170 grams) packed brown sugar
- 3 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- 15 oz can (425 grams) pure pumpkin puree
- 2 large eggs
- ¾ cup (170 grams) nonfat greek yogurt
- ¼ cup (59 ml) olive oil
- ½ cup (118 ml) milk
- Pumpkin seeds optional
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. Stir together and set aside.
- In a larger mixing bowl combine the pumpkin, eggs, greek yogurt, olive oill, and milk. Stir to combine.
- Gradually mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, mixing just until combined. The batter will be very thick.
- Cover the bowl with a towel and allow the batter to rest for 15 minutes. During this time, preheat the oven to 425ºF / 220ºC.
- For bakery style muffins, line a 12 count muffin pan with 6 muffins liners, meaning you’ll only fill every other muffin well with batter. I recommend spraying the liners with non-stick cooking spray because this batter does tend to stick to the liners. Fill the liners with 6-8 heaping tablespoons of batter. Sprinkle pumpkin seeds over the muffins if desired. Place one pan in the center of the oven and bake for 7 minutes at 425ºF / 220ºC, then keep the muffins in the oven, turn the temperature down to 350ºF / 180ºC and bake for 13-16 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow the muffins to cool in the pan. Repeat with the remaining batter, bumping the temperature back up to 425ºF / 220ºC.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1muffin | Calories: 228kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.004g | Cholesterol: 33mg | Sodium: 371mg | Potassium: 166mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 5579IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 117mg | Iron: 2mg