Recipe #59: Garden Herb Muffins

Garden Herb Muffins

The recipe in 201 Muffins called for carrots, onions, and several herbs, including garlic. They were obviously supposed to be dinner muffins, so I looked for a savory carrot muffin recipe and I did find several, but they all called for a much larger amount of carrots than the book's recipe. After searching for a while, though, and not finding a recipe that was close to the one in the book, I chose one of the carrot muffin recipes.

The one I chose turned out quite well: Savory Carrot Muffins, from the website Maria Ushakova. I changed it a bit, using regular unbleached flour instead of spelt, adding 1/2 cup green onions in place of an equal amount of carrots, adding some grated cheese and sunflower seeds, and using slightly different herbs. The muffins came out with a nice texture. They were not at all sweet, which was fine, since they were supposed to be savory muffins. And they tasted very good, I thought, as did my husband.  I made the mistake of using muffin papers, which did not come away from the muffins completely, I think maybe because there wasn't a lot of fat in the muffins.

One of my tasters was not thrilled with them. She said they were "just okay," perhaps because they weren't sweet or maybe because they didn't come away from the papers very well.

I don't know if I'd make them again, since they have more calories than is useful for a dinner muffin.

I rate them 4 out of 5, mostly for the few little problems I had with them.

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