Cottage Cheese Muffin

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Description

Golden, puffy cottage cheese muffins are high in protein, filling, and endlessly adaptable. Compared to regular muffins, these are much moister, less bready, and more quiche-like. Enjoy these fresh and healthy muffin as your breakfast or just a quick snack! This recipe produces a total of 8 hearthy muffins.

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Get creative with your muffin fillings! Who knows if you might make a holy combo you can't resist! Strike a nice nutritional balance, these muffins combine proteins, complex carbohydrates, vegetables and good fats together in interesting and delicious ways. If you're deciding on making them gluten free, fret not! Just substitute the regular flour into Gluten-Free flour and you have your gluten free cottage cheese muffins.


Ingredients:

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Ingredients/Measurements
Ingredients Amount/Unit
Dairy
Cottage Cheese (Low-Fat) 227g
Parmesan Cheese 28g
Whole Eggs 4pcs
Dry Ingredients
All-purpose flour 35g
Almond Meal/Almond flour 95g
Baking Powder 1tsp
Salt 1/2tsp
Thyme x
Oregano x
Chive x
Wet Ingredients
Water 60ml

Procedure

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    Part 1: Preparation

  1. Preheat oven at 170c. Line muffin tray with muffin cups.
  2. Measure ingredients accordingly.
  3. Roughly chop thyme, oregano, chives.
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    Part 2: Combine

  1. In a mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients (all-purpose flour, almond meal, baking powder, and salt). Roughly mix for all the ingredients.
  2. In another mixing bowl, combine all the wet ingredients (eggs, water, cottage cheese). Using a whisk, whisk all the wet ingredients until fully incorporated.
  3. Pour in wet ingredients into 3 stages into dry mixture and whisk until ingredients are fully combine. (Pouring in stages achieves a smooth prevents clumps in mixutre)
  4. Once all ingredients are fully combined, add parmesan cheese and chopped herbs into mixture to enhance its flavour.

    Part 3: Baking

  1. In the lined muffin tray, fill each muffin cup 2/4. Avoid overfilling the muffin cups to avoid overflowing of mixture during baking.
  2. Once filled, sprinkle parmesan cheese and chopped herbs to garnish the muffins.
  3. Bake in preheated oven for 30-35 minutes.
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Side Note
To check the doneness of the muffins, use a clean stick to poke into the center of the muffins. If there are no muffin mixture sticking onto it, it's ready! If there are muffin mix sticking on the stick, pop it back in the oven for 3-5 minutes and check again!


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Enjoy your muffins!

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