Long time no see! Having a baby will do that to you, but I am back finally and hopefully I’ll be better about posting again. Here is one of my go to muffin recipes when I want something a little sweet, but still healthy.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup uncooked quinoa
• 1 cup water
• 2 mashed bananas
• 1 egg
• 1 medium carrot, grated
• 1/2 cup oil(I use coconut oil, but you can use canola or whatever oil you use)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup brown sugar(I’ve started substituting coconut palm sugar to make it even healthier)
• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup flax seed
• 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds( Sometimes I substitute sunflower seeds instead)
• 1/2 cups raisins

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine water and quinoa and cook according to package. About 10min.
• In a small bowl mash bananas, add the egg, carrots, oil, and vanilla. Mix well.
• In a large bowl mix flour, flax seed, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar.
• Once quinoa is cooked fold it into the dry ingredients.
• Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.
• Add pumpkin seeds and raisins.

• Spoon into muffin tins.
• Cook for about 30 min.

• Makes about 2 dozen.