I know everybody thinks of the muffin as being something which does not really go with weight loss or dieting. The muffin is generally seen as a high-fat treat that is eaten as a comfort food or as a desert. But, there are plenty of muffin recipes that you can make for yourself that bring the calorie count down low enough to be considered as part of a calorie controlled diet. You can also reduce the amount of saturated fat that you put into your own muffins. A muffin recipe can be made with a wide variety of ingredients. For instance you can add blueberries to make a blueberry muffin recipe, or you can add chocolate chips to make a chocolate muffin recipe, the choice is yours. This is the beauty of the muffin; you add either what you want to add at the time or what you have available in your kitchen. Below is a healthy recipe for muffins using wheat bran. Wheat bran is low in cholesterol, sodium, and saturated fat. It is a great source of iron, protein, riboflavin, and potassium, as well as being rich in nutrients and vitamins.

The ingredients for your bran muffin recipe are:

1/2 cups of wheat bran
1/3 cup of vegetable oil
one egg
1 cup of buttermilk
half teaspoon of vanilla extract
2/3 cup of brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
one cup of all purpose flour
half a teaspoon of salt
half a teaspoon of raisins

First, make sure that your oven is preheated to 190°C. Paper your greased muffin tray with muffin liners. Now you can get on to the mixing. Mix together your buttermilk and wheat bran. You have to let this stand for about 10 minutes. Now, mix together the sugar, egg, oil, and vanilla. At this stage you can add this to your buttermilk and wheat bran mix. Put the baking soda, baking powder, salt, and flour through a sieve and add this to your wheat bran mixture. Blend the whole lot well until it is nice and creamy. Now you can mix in your raisins, and place small dollops into each muffin case. These should go into the oven for between 15 and 20 minutes. You will know if they had done by pushing a thin knitting needle into the middle of the muffin, if the needle comes out dry then your muffins are done. Don’t eat them all at once.

Bon Apetite!