I finally purchased my first lot of fresh Strawberries a day back and was really happy with a lot of red juicy mini wonders and a box was finished within almost not time by me and Pasta! With a happy mind (and tummy) I then opened my fridge to store rest of the strawberries and found a lot of over ripped bananas (as always)! Given both me and my LO was suffering from cold and cough last week we both skipped our regular dose of Bananas and I somehow forgot about the bunch that I have in the fridge! First thing came to my mind after seeing the bunch of bananas was nothing but a typical Banana Bread that I make every time I have overripe bananas available in my stock but who is going to eat a simple banana bread in this season of baking! I am baking several goodies since last few days and obviously, our taste bud would not allow simple banana bread in this baking season and I was aware that I am not available with Nutella as well (to make a Nutella swirled Banana Bread). I was not at all in a mood to discard bananas and suddenly decided to use bananas along with strawberries to make baked goodies and ended on making some really tasty Whole Wheat Strawberry Banana Muffins.
Strawberries go really well with Banana and my attempt at making Muffins using these two turned out awesome. Given, I bake different goodies entire December, I try to make a low-calorie version of baked goodies and hence made super tasty Whole Wheat Strawberry Banana Muffins with no added Butter. I replaced butter with refined oil and with the goodness of Whole Wheat Flour and a combo of two fruits my muffins turned into a dose of a healthy treat to my little one.
I packed a Whole Wheat Strawberry Muffin in Pasta’s Snack box last morning and found she finished it complete. I had this with my morning cup of coffee and believe me it was a pleasure to have the super tasty, super soft muffin with a dose of Strawberry and Banana. I have used my favorite small-sized “Kanthali Kala”, a local variety of small bananas but sharing the recipe using a normal banana for the ease of the readers.
- Whole Wheat Flour: 1.5 Cup (200g)
- Powdered Sugar: ⅔ Cup (100g)
- Nutmeg Powder: ½ Tsp.
- Baking Powder: 1 Tsp.
- Baking Soda: ½ Tsp.
- Egg: 2
- Milk: ⅓ Cup (50 ml)
- Refined Oil: ½ Cup (75 ml)
- Vanilla Essence: ½ Tsp.
- Strawberries: 15
- Bananas: 2 (Big sized)
- All the ingredients are needed to be at room temperature before making the batter.
- Pre-heat the oven in 180 degree C for 10 minutes.
- Wash and cut Strawberries into small cubes.
- Remove the skin of Bananas and take bananas in a bowl and using a fork mash bananas. I prefer to retain few small chunks of banana to give the cake/ muffin a body.
- Mix Whole Wheat Flour along with Baking Powder and Baking Soda in a bowl and shift using a sieve two times.
- Now mix Nutmeg Powder with the Flour mix.
- Mix Chopped Strawberries lightly with the flour mix so that the strawberries are coated with flour.
- Add Mashed bananas in the flour-Strawberry mix and fold lightly.
- Now take Eggs and Powdered Sugar in a bowl and using a hand blender or manual whisk start mixing both till the mixture turns creamy. It took me 2 minutes to mix both the ingredients using a hand blender.
- Add Oil to the mixture and using the blender blend for 1 more minute.
- Add Vanilla essence and Milk to the mixture and blend for 1 more minute.
- Now make a well in the mid of the flour mix and pour the wet mixture and using a spatula fold everything lightly by Cutting and folding.
- Line a muffin tin with muffin liners and using a tablespoon or Ice-cream scoop fill ⅔ of each muffin liner with the batter.
- Tap the muffin tray on table top after filling the tray.
- Bake at 180 degrees C for 15-20 minutes in preheated oven. It took me 15 minutes to bake Whole Wheat Strawberry Banana Muffins.
- Check at around in 15 minutes by inserting a toothpick in the mid of the muffins and if required bake for few more minutes.
- Take Muffins out of the oven after baking and cool on a wire rack.
- Store Muffins in an airtight container. These muffins can be stored for a month if refrigerated.
