For the Home Baker's Challenge, Shama Nagarajan of Shama's Easy To Cook Recipes suggested a savoury muffins recipe with spinach and cheddar cheese. At first I thought of skipping this recipe but after seeing the results got by fellow Home Bakers, I badly wanted to try it. Again this was a recipe which used eggs and I substituted eggs to get an egg free muffin. It turned out very nice. The top was so crispy and the inside was so soft and fluffy. It is better to serve it hot from oven because when cool, the crispy crust is no longer there. It becomes soft. So if you are serving leftover muffins, it is better to reheat them in Microwave before serving. I had some green chutney in the fridge. I applied it as frosting for the muffin and the combination was fabulous. If you like savoury bakes, do not forget to try this...
Makes 15 muffins:
Ingredients:
Butter-6 tbs
Milk-1 cup
Curd-1/4 cup
Flour/ Maida-1 1/2 cups
Baking Powder-2 tsp
Baking Soda-1/2 tsp
Salt-1/2 tsp
Spinach-1 cup
Cheddar Cheese-1 cup (grated)
Procedure:
1. Preheat oven to 175C.
2. Place muffin cups inside the muffin tray and keep it ready.
3. Heat together milk and butter. Remove from flame and allow the butter to melt.
4. When the mixture is cool, add curd and whisk.
5. In another bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
6. Add chopped spinach to the butter mixture and mix.
7. Add cheese to the butter mixture and mix.
8. Finally add the flour and gently mix to incorporate.
9. Drop the batter into the prepared cups.
10. Bake for 35 minutes. The top should be golden in colour.
11. Remove from oven, remove the cups from the tray and serve hot.
Melt butter in milk, add curd and whisk.
Finely chop spinach.
Add it along with cheese to the butter milk mixture.
Add flour and mix.
Mix gently to incorporate.
Fill muffin cups with batter.
Bake in a preheated oven.
When done remove from the pan.
Serve immediately and Enjoy!!!
Labels: BAKES, CHEDDAR, EGGLESS, HOME BAKERS CHALLENGE, MUFFINS, SPINACH
