Ready in just four easy steps, these tasty bran muffins are so simple to make at home. A delicious brunch treat.
Made with wholewheat flour, natural oat or wheat bran and natural yogurt, these muffins are much healthier options than regular sweet muffins. The blueberries in this recipe add a natural sweetness to every bite. This recipe is by celeb chef Lisa Faulkner. "I've had this recipe for years - just mix the dry things in one bowl, the wet in another and then stir the two together. By the time you've made the coffee they are practically ready."
Ingredients
250g (9oz) wholewheat flour
200g (7oz) natural oat or wheatbran
4tsp baking powder
2tsp bicarbonate of soda
Pinch salt
450ml (3/4 pint) natural yogurt or buttermilk
180ml (6 fl oz) vegetable oil
2tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
100g (4oz) light muscovado sugar
350g (12oz) blueberries
WEIGHT CONVERTER
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Method
Line 18 sections of two muffin tins with paper cases or grease lightly with a little oil. Mix the flour, bran, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and a little salt together in a mixing bowl.
Add the yogurt or buttermilk, oil and vanilla to a second, smaller bowl then add the eggs and sugar and fork together until smooth. Add to the bowl of dry ingredients and fork together until just mixed.
Add the blueberries and mix briefly, being careful not to overmix. Divide the mixture between the sections of the muffin tin.
Bake at 200oC (400oF) Gas mark 6 for about 20 minutes until tops are firm when pressed. Lift out of the tin, transfer to a wire rack and serve while warm, or leave to cool completely.
Top tips for making bran muffins
You could swap the natural yogurt for buttermilk instead. You could also try this recipe with other berries instead of blueberries, like chopped strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries.
Lisa Faulkner is the actress turned celebrity chef who won series five of the popular BBC TV show, Celebrity Masterchef. Since winning the show in 2010, she has released five cookbooks full of homely recipes that have quickly become family favorites.
Born in London, she started modelling at 15 and spent time in Paris before moving on to acting at 16 years old. Lisa went on to star in some of the most well loved soaps and TV dramas including Holby City, Spooks and EastEnders.
Lisa has a daughter, 13-year old Billie who she adopted with her first husband Chris Coghill. Speaking openly about her daughter, Lisa has said adopting Billie was the best day of her life, “I’ll remember that day for the rest of my life. It’s the greatest privilege to be a mother and the greatest challenge of my life and one for which I’m so grateful. Seeing my daughter develop and learn is a miracle to me.”
She split from Coghill in 2011 and married Masterchef Judge, John Torode in 2019 after seven years of dating.
Many of Lisa’s recipes are inspired by her mother’s own cooking - “The wonderful aromas, the knife on the chopping board and her wedding ring tinkling against her glass rolling pin as she shaped pastry. Everything that she made was delicious, and to me she was just magic.” With this in mind, she curates wholesome flavours and family favourites like fish and chips (opens in new tab), leg of lamb (opens in new tab) and delicious blueberry muffins (opens in new tab) within her collections.
This taste for family cooking she brings online to her social media (opens in new tab) channels, where she shares her secret to some of the most well-loved recipes out there and offers an insight into her life with husband John.
If you’re looking for tasty and nourishing recipes for your family, we’re sure to have the Lisa Faulkner recipes you’ll need to be inspired in the kitchen.
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