Veggie Muffins

I've experimented with vegetable/savory muffins in the past. Rarely are they worth mentioning, not to mention eating. This time, however, I think I hit it on the nose. I used the Canadian Baker's veggie muffin recipe, and it is pretty fantastic. These are not sweet muffins--they are a way to bring vegetables for lunch without a tupperware, essentially. The muffins have a very custardy/quiche-y texture, probably because of the eggs, and they remind me a lot of the monster pie recipe I've made before from the King Arthur Flour book. If I ever make that again I'll post the recipe with a picture.

Anyway, the recipe was a real snap, provided you have a food processor. Without that, I'd say it'll take you a good half hour to get through all the chopping. Otherwise you're looking at 5-10 minutes prep and 20-25min baking time. Cleanup is easy too. Do I have anything else to rave about? Oh yeah, the muffins taste awesome, and they freeze well for future lunches!


Ingredients
1/4C white flour
1/2C wheat flour (or any permutation on these amounts)
1.5tsp baking powder
1/4tsp salt
1 tbs dried herbs (your choice; I used basil, marjoram, sage, and rosemary)
3 eggs
3 tbs olive oil
1 tbs yogurt
1.5C chopped vegetables, your choice (I used broccoli, kale, and carrots, but I might omit the carrots next time, they were too sweet)
1 onion
1/3C grated cheese, your choice (I used parmesan. Remember, parmesan comes in a block of cheese, not a green can)

Put the flour, baking powder, salt, and herbs in a big bowl. Mix that together thoroughly. In another bowl, whisk the eggs, oil, and yogurt. Add the wet to the dry and stir just until no flour streaks remain. Chop the veggies in a food processor to a small size (you decide how big you want your veggies) and fold those into the batter. Grease a muffin tin and bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes.

This recipe made nine muffins for me. The Canadian Baker said it would make six, but I had way more batter than that. I filled the muffin tins all the way to the top and they did not overflow.