Marigold Muffs

What is a muff, you may ask? Well, in our family, when I was little, we talked about treat food and every day food to help me learn about good food choices. Muffins, are what we called the bakery style of muffin, usually with lots of sugar and not so much nutrition. These are treat food. BUT, we have a large collection of recipes that are sort of healthy muffins, but to differentiate, we started calling them muffs. So, muffs are everyday food, whereas muffins are treat food. Since I prefer savory flavors, the muffs aren't bakery sweet, but they have flavor and deliciousness.

The marigold name comes from what I was interested in at the time when we created this recipe. I was learning a lot about Hindu deities (and I highly recommend this book if you want to get some fun descriptions and cute illustrations)The Little Book of Hindu Deities by Sanjay Patel. As you may know, marigolds are often used in Puja, so because of the color (from red lentils and carrots) it reminded me of marigolds.

Recipe (also available as a PDF below for printing ease):

Make your flax egg: 1 Tbsp ground flaxseed, combined with 2 Tbsp water.  Let sit for a few minutes until gelled.

Combine in food processor:

your flax egg (from above)

1 banana

1-2 carrots, peeled

½ c. cooked red lentils (see note below)

drizzle of maple syrup

2 T. liquid coconut oil

2 T plant-based milk

1 tsp apple cider vinegar

½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp baking powder

½ tsp cinnamon

1/3 cup rolled oats

Process until a smooth batter is formed.  Mix in (by hand) ¾-1 cup of flour (the amount of flour will depend on the size of banana and wetness of lentils).   Your choice of flour – we generally use einkorn, but any whole wheat flour would work.  Gluten free flour may also work.

Scoop into muffin tins.

 Bake for 20-22 minutes at 350 degrees.

Enjoy!

Lentil Cooking - We use a 4:1 ratio - so for 1/2 cup of dry red lentils, 2 cups of water - cook until smooshy. We store them in the fridge and use in many recipes (see lentil cookies!)

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It's really important to our family to honor artists for their work, so if you love the hedgehog or birds, here is where they came from!

The "Mushroom Garden Hedgie" is made in Indonesia, and ours lives on our kitchen table and seems to like muffs.

The birdies are a little shy, but they liked the aroma of the muffs. They are from a set of Guide Birds by artist Susan LeVine.

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