I love it when recipes are born out of leftovers 🙂 I use sweet potatoes almost weekly in our meals – they are full of vitamins and nourishment!
A little over a year ago when I was in a baby food making season, I had some extra sweet potatoes steamed up that I didn’t have room for making baby food jars out of. I ended up playing around with one of my banana bread recipes and subbing the mashed sweet potato for the banana! This is what turned out!
It is such a simple recipe that comes together SO fast in a blender or processor, and when you batch it up, you can have easy and nourishing, pull out of the freezer breakfasts, snacks, and lunch additions.
You’ll Need:
- 1 ½ cups cooked sweet potato puree (I just steam up a cubed sweet potato and throw 2 cups of them into the processor
and it makes the perfect amount pureed.)
- ½ cup soft butter or coconut oil
- 1 egg (If you are egg free use an egg replacer
egg or flax egg)
- ½ cup buttermilk (OR you could fill a ½ cup with 1 TB apple cider vinegar and fill the rest of the way with whole milk or whole coconut milk
)
- 1 cup millet flour
- 1 cup white rice flour
- ½ cup tapioca flour
- 1/3 cup sucanat
or organic pure cane sugar
(I think honey would work too)
- 1 TB cinnamon
- 2 tsp aluminum free baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- Blend the sweet potato puree, butter, egg, and buttermilk until smooth. (I puree my sweet potato in my food processor
- Add the rest of the ingredients and blend until smooth. (Again, I just throw everything into the processor and blend it up!)
- Bake in silicone muffin cups
, paper cups, or buttered muffin tin at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Check around the 20 minute mark in case our ovens run different.
Kitchen Tips:
- This makes 12 good sized muffins. You could make them smaller or even mini muffins and cook less time if you wish.
- Freezes up great! Double up when those sweet potatoes are on sale and batch up for the freezer. Easy pull out addition to the lunch box or breakfast!
- Pack them up in the lunchboxes instead of a sandwich for something different!
YOUR TURN!
Let me know how the babes like the muffins!