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Oats and Dates Muffins

Posted by Cape Malay Cooking & Other Delights

This is a continuation of my previous post. Here is the recipe for my oats and dates muffins. This recipes makes 10 decent size muffins.

You will need:

1 cup milk, you may use whole or semi-skimmed

1 cup oats

1 large egg

1/4 cup sunflower oil

1 cup self raising flour

1/4 cup white sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1 cup chopped dates

1/2 tsp cinnamon powder

Preheat your oven to 200C. Grease a muffin tray or line with paper muffin liners.

Combine the milk and oats in a small bowl. Soak the oats and the milk for 10 minutes.

In a separate mixing bowl, beat together the egg and oil then stir in the oatmeal and milk mixture. In another bowl sift together the flour, cinnamon, sugar, baking powder. Stir the flour mixture and the chopped dates into the wet ingredients using a spoon, until combined.

Spoon the muffin batter into the prepared muffin cups until 2/3 full.

Top with dry oats

Bake in a preheated oven at 200C for 20 – 25 minutes or until a toothpick or skewer inserted into the centre of the muffin comes out clean.

Enjoy:)

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Savoury Muffins

Ever had unexpected guests and nothing to serve them? I’m sure many of you experienced this before. Well, I was in this predicament on Sunday morning after having unexpected guests sleep over on Saturday night. Usually, I have a supply of koesisters in the freezer, which would have been perfect for a traditional Sunday breakfast in a Cape Malay home. Sadly, on this occasion I had none, not even a doughnut!

What to do? I haven’t gone shopping yet, so my grocery cupboards only had everyday necessities. After scratching my brain for ideas, I decided to make a quick bread, savoury scones using left over chicken of the previous day as well as oats and dates muffins. In the end everyone had an enjoyable breakfast / brunch and I was saved from embarrassment. Here follows my recipe for savoury muffins. I’ll post the oats & dates and the bread recipe on another occasion.

For 12 Savoury Muffins you’ll need:

1 cup chopped left over chicken pieces, preferably breast

1 cup peeled and chopped onions

1 cup chopped tomatoes

1 cup deseeded and chopped mixed red and green peppers

2 large eggs, beaten

1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese

2 1/2 Tbsps self raising flour

1/4 tsp salt (optional)

1 tsp black pepper

Add all the ingredients in a large bowl, mix everything together with a spoon until all the ingredients are combine.

Spoon into 12 – 14 silicone cupcake holders. You can also use a greased 12 cup muffin tray. (depending on the size of your cupcake holder you may even get 14 like I did)

Bake for 15 minutes in a preheated oven at 180C.

Enjoy 🙂

Posted on 15/10/2014 | Aside

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Oct 9

Posted by Cape Malay Cooking & Other Delights

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