Savoury Breakfast Muffins (makes 12)

Savoury Breakfast Muffins by The Fat Foodie

Sometimes at the weekend I like to make something a little bit more special for breakfast than the usual toast, porridge or cereal that I would usually have during the week. There’s something really nice about having the luxury of time on a Sunday morning to make a batch of syrup-drenched fluffy pancakes or a stack of french toast and take it back to bed with a hot cup of tea or coffee.

These savoury breakfast muffins were invented one Sunday morning when I saw that I had a courgette and some grated cheese that needed to be used up soon. I added a couple of rashers of smoked bacon to the mix and a really tasty breakfast muffin was born. (You could leave the bacon rashers out if you’d prefer a vegetarian muffin.)

These savoury breakfast muffins are really easy to make, requiring little more than chucking all of the ingredients into a  bowl, mixing, pouring into muffin cases and baking, but they’re incredibly rewarding to eat. They are soft, moist gluten-free muffins that are studded with chunks of fresh courgette, melted cheddar cheese and salty, smoky bacon cubes. They’re just what you need to go with the Sunday papers in bed.

Savoury Breakfast Muffins by The Fat Foodie

Ingredients:

3 eggs

50ml vegetable oil

250ml rice milk

220g gluten-free flour (I use Dove’s Farm G/F flour because it’s made with low FODMAP ingredients whereas many other gluten-free flours are made with high FODMAP options.)

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1 tsp xanthan gum

1 tsp dried mixed herbs

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

100g grated cheddar cheese (or non-dairy version)

80g courgette (finely chopped)

4 rashers of smoked bacon (finely chopped) (optional)

10 black olives

60g sunflower seeds (to decorate)

Method:

Preheat your oven to 200C/180C Fan/400F/Gas Mark 6.

Prepare a muffin tin with muffin cases.

Put all of the wet ingredients into a large mixing bowl and mix.

Add all of the dry ingredients (except the sunflower seeds) and mix.

Put the muffin mixture into the muffin cases, sprinkle with sunflower seeds and bake for 35-40 mins. Serve warm.

Savoury Breakfast Muffins by The Fat Foodie

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