If you are looking for a delicious way to eat apples, then try these breakfast apple muffins packed with oats. This is a quick one-bowl muffin recipe that requires only 30 minutes.

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  • Ingredients You’ll Need
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  • Vegan Apple Muffins
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  • Apple Muffin Recipe With Oats

You need one bowl to make super moist apple muffins at home. All you need to do is combine the ingredients in a bowl and voila batter is ready to bake. The whole muffin making process takes 30 minutes from start to finish.

Apple Muffins are the kind of baked treats that always remind me of the morning freshness. There is something serene about starting the day with a cup of freshly brewed coffee and a home-baked muffin.

The light tartness of apple combined with the warmth of cinnamon and sweetness of the carrot creates music of delectable flavours.

If you love desserts with apple, try my – apple kheer . It’s love at first bite.

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Ingredients You’ll Need

  • All-purpose flour
  • Apple – try to use sweet tasting apples
  • Baking Powder & Soda
  • Cinnamon Powder
  • Eggs – make sure they are not cold
  • Olive Oil – I use extra virgin olive oil for baking
  • Brown Sugar – stick to light brown sugar
  • Vanilla Extract – always use good quality vanilla extract

Be adventurous – try these muffin recipe variations:

Carrot – replace half the amount of grated apple with the carrot. And you have carrot loaf style muffins.

Applesauce : instead of grated apple, you can use 1 cup applesauce as well.

Fresh Berries – add fresh berries such as blueberry, raspberry, or strawberry ( and later, use some of them to bake teatime strawberry cake ) in the batter.

Streusel Topping – try streusel topping of muesli, rolled oats, diced apple, chocolate chips, or dried fruits to make your muffins even more delightful.

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OatsStreusel Topping For Muffin

I have combined rolled oats ( use the remaining oats for making overnight oats or khichdi or smoothie ), butter, and light brown sugar to make a crunchy topping for my muffins.

The addition of oats gives a full breakfast feel to the muffins. It is an utterly simple streusel topping that does not require any unique technique – combine oats with cold butter and brown sugar.

Mix to form a crumbly mixture, and the streusel topping is ready. You can keep it in the fridge while preparing the batter.

Vegan Apple Muffins

Substitute eggs with 1 Cup applesauce or vegan yogurt in the batter. And you will end up with super-moist vegan muffins. For streusel topping, instead of butter use unsweetened almond or any other nut butter .

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My Tried and True Tips

  • The batter is a little bit lumpy and on a thick side , but that’s the key to soft, moist muffins.
  • The pitfall with all muffin is in over mixing the batter and ending up with the tough muffins. So make sure you only mix the batter until the ingredients are well combined, moistened, and no streaks of flour remain .
  • Try to use apples with a sweet taste and less tartness like the golden delicious, Shimla apples , or honey crisp .
  • Always adjust the amount of sugar according to the sweetness of the apples.
  • Stick to brown sugar only as it helps in giving the required moistness to the muffins .
  • Lastly, do not leave the muffins in the oven for too long. Usually, apple muffins don’t take more than 20 minutes to bake.
  • Even after bringing out of the oven, the cooking process continues with the heat trapped inside. So check muffins with a toothpick and adjust the baking time accordingly.
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More Muffin Recipes

  • Chewy Granola Bar
  • Corn Cheese Muffin
  • Whole Wheat Mocha Muffin
  • Double Chocolate Chip Muffin
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Ingredients

  • ▢ 1 ⅓ Cup All-Purpose Flour (Maida)
  • ▢ ½ Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • ▢ ½ Teaspoon Baking Powder
  • ▢ A Pinch of Salt
  • ▢ 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon Powder
  • ▢ ½ Cup Light Brown Sugar
  • ▢ 1 Cup Grated Apple
  • ▢ 2 Eggs, at room temperature
  • ▢ ½ Cup Olive Oil
  • ▢ ½ Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Ingredients For Streusel Topping:

  • ▢ ½ Cup Rolled Oats
  • ▢ 2 Tablespoon Brown Sugar
  • ▢ ¼ Cup Cold Butter

Instructions

Streusel Topping:

  • Combine oats with cold, diced butter and brown sugar. Use your fingers to gently combine the ingredients. The streusel topping should be like a crumbly, chunky mixture. Keep it in the fridge while preparing the batter.

Prepare Muffin Batter

  • Preheat oven at 180-degree celsius. Line muffin tray with paper liners. Grease paper liners with little oil or use a non-stick oil spray.
  • To prepare apple muffins, in a mixing bowl combine eggs, olive oil, grated apple, vanilla, and sugar. Whisk for 5 – 6 minutes.
  • Next, add flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon powder and combine using a spatula. Make sure no streaks of flour remain in the batter.
  • Pour equal amount of batter in each muffin cup. Fill each muffin cup ¾ with the batter.

Bake Muffins:

  • Sprinkle a tablespoon of oats topping on each muffin.
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 20 – 25 minutes. Turn off the oven. Insert a toothpick inside the muffin and check for doneness. Transfer muffins over a wire rack to cool down a bit.
  • Serve Apple Muffins warm or store in the fridge in an airtight container for 10 – 15 days.

Recipe Notes:

  • The batter is a little bit lumpy and on a thick side, but that’s the key to soft, moist apple muffins.
  • Do not overmix the muffin batter. Mix the batter until the ingredients are well combined, moistened, and no streaks of flour remain.
  • Try to use apples with little sweetness in them and less tartness like the golden delicious or honey crisp.
  • Always adjust the amount of sugar according to the sweetness of the apples.
  • Stick to brown sugar only as it helps in giving the required moistness to the muffins.
  • Lastly, do not leave the muffins in the oven for too long. Usually, apple muffins don’t take more than 20 minutes to bake. So check muffins with a toothpick and adjust the baking time accordingly.

Nutrition

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Apple Muffin Recipe With Oats

Equipment

  • Oven
  • Muffin Tray
  • Mixing Bowl

Ingredients

  • 1 ⅓ Cup All-Purpose Flour (Maida)
  • ½ Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • ½ Teaspoon Baking Powder
  • A Pinch of Salt
  • 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon Powder
  • ½ Cup Light Brown Sugar
  • 1 Cup Grated Apple
  • 2 Eggs, at room temperature
  • ½ Cup Olive Oil
  • ½ Teaspoon Vanilla Extract

Ingredients For Streusel Topping:

  • ½ Cup Rolled Oats
  • 2 Tablespoon Brown Sugar
  • ¼ Cup Cold Butter

Instructions

Streusel Topping:

  • Combine oats with cold, diced butter and brown sugar. Use your fingers to gently combine the ingredients. The streusel topping should be like a crumbly, chunky mixture. Keep it in the fridge while preparing the batter.

Prepare Muffin Batter

  • Preheat oven at 180-degree celsius. Line muffin tray with paper liners. Grease paper liners with little oil or use a non-stick oil spray.
  • To prepare apple muffins, in a mixing bowl combine eggs, olive oil, grated apple, vanilla, and sugar. Whisk for 5 - 6 minutes.
  • Next, add flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamon powder and combine using a spatula. Make sure no streaks of flour remain in the batter.
  • Pour equal amount of batter in each muffin cup. Fill each muffin cup ¾ with the batter.

Bake Muffins:

  • Sprinkle a tablespoon of oats topping on each muffin.
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 20 - 25 minutes. Turn off the oven. Insert a toothpick inside the muffin and check for doneness. Transfer muffins over a wire rack to cool down a bit.
  • Serve Apple Muffins warm or store in the fridge in an airtight container for 10 - 15 days.

Notes

  • The batter is a little bit lumpy and on a thick side, but that’s the key to soft, moist apple muffins.
  • Do not overmix the muffin batter. Mix the batter until the ingredients are well combined, moistened, and no streaks of flour remain.
  • Try to use apples with little sweetness in them and less tartness like the golden delicious or honey crisp.
  • Always adjust the amount of sugar according to the sweetness of the apples.
  • Stick to brown sugar only as it helps in giving the required moistness to the muffins.
  • Lastly, do not leave the muffins in the oven for too long. Usually, apple muffins don’t take more than 20 minutes to bake. So check muffins with a toothpick and adjust the baking time accordingly.

Nutrition

Gobi Manchurian is an Indian-Chinese fusion dish made with crispy cauliflower florets tossed in a sweet and spicy sauce. Be sure to watch the video!

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  • Indian-Chinese Fusion Cuisine
  • The Cauliflower Manchurian
  • Ingredients Required
  • My Tried & True Tips
  • Watch Gobi Manchurian Video
  • Serving Suggestion
  • More Indo-Chinese Recipes
  • Gobi Manchurian Recipe

Indian-Chinese Fusion Cuisine

Continuing with my takeaway-style Chinese dishes that you can replicate at home, here is a vegan cauliflower Manchurian recipe. In India, we classify gobi Manchurian as part of Indian-Chinese cuisine .

The vast number of Chinese migrants in Kolkatta, West Bengal, created the fusion cuisine, now popularly known as Indo-Chinese.

Over the years, dishes like cauliflower Manchurian are the heart of Indian street food fare. Light on the wallet, and big on flavours, Indian-Chinese fusion cuisine is widely popular across the Indian sub-continent.

The Cauliflower Manchurian

‘Gobi’ is the Hindi term for cauliflower. And Manchurian is a thick and luscious fusion sauce. Hence, the name ‘Gobi Manchurian’ literally translates into cauliflower tossed in a Manchurian sauce.

To make gobi Manchurian, the cauliflower is robbed of its monotony and clothed with a thick batter and fried till crisp.

The fried cauliflower florets coated in a delicious, vegetarian Manchurian sauce are indeed a vegetarian delight.

You can make gobi Manchurian as an appetizer/finger food for the parties, or with a little extra gravy, you can serve it with fried rice as a main course.

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Ingredients Required

For The Crispy Cauliflower Florets

  • Cauliflower florets (fresh or frozen)
  • All-purpose flour (maida)
  • Corn flour (corn starch)
  • Ginger-Garlic Paste
  • Salt, Black Pepper Powder, Water
  • Cooking Oil for frying

For Manchurian Sauce

  • Cooking Oil
  • Garlic, Ginger, Red Onion
  • Green Capsicum or Bell Peppers
  • Soy Sauce, Red Chilli Sauce, Tomato Ketchup
  • Water
  • Corn Starch
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My Tried & True Tips

  • Non-Greasy: Even though this is a fried snack, you don’t want it reeking of oil. Imagine biting into a fritter and getting a mouthful of oil. Ensure the oil is at a high temperature before frying the florets to prevent soggy florets.
  • Not Too Doughy: Yes, flour is used as a binder in this gobi Manchurian recipe. It also helps give the fritters the lovely crunchy coating we love. But adding too much flour or cornstarch in the batter makes your cauliflower florets hard, and then you just have fried dough balls instead.
  • Avoid Over-Cooking: The Gobi Manchurian gravy does not require long cooking hours. Once the sauce is thick and luscious, turn off the heat. Do not cook it for too long after adding fried cauliflower florets and capsicum.

Watch Gobi Manchurian Video

Serving Suggestion

You can serve gobi Manchurian as a snack for the parties.

Or make it extra saucy by serving it with main-course dishes like chilli garlic noodles , pineapple fried rice , mushroom fried rice , or plain cooked rice. Either way, it tastes delicious!

More Indo-Chinese Recipes

  • Chilli Paneer
  • Veg Spring Roll
  • Crispy Babycorn
  • Chilli Mushroom
  • Soya Manchurian
  • Veg Manchurian Gravy
  • Vegetable Hot Garlic Sauce
  • Chinese Bhel (Crispy Noodle Salad)

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Ingredients

Ingredients For Frying:

  • ▢ 500 gram cauliflower florets
  • ▢ ¼ cup all-purpose flour (maida)
  • ▢ 2 tablespoon cornflour (corn starch)
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste
  • ▢ Salt to taste
  • ▢ ½ teaspoon black pepper powder
  • ▢ ⅓ Cup water
  • ▢ Oil for shallow frying

Other Ingredients

  • ▢ 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
  • ▢ 1 tablespoon chopped ginger
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon chopped red chilli
  • ▢ ½ Cup chopped onion
  • ▢ ½ Cup diced capsicum
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon soy sauce
  • ▢ 1 tablespoon red chilli sauce
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon tomato ketchup
  • ▢ 1 tablespoon cooking oil
  • ▢ ¼ Cup corn flour paste (2 tablespoon cornflour combined with water)

Instructions

  • To prepare the florets for gobi manchurian, wash cauliflower in water and pat dry with kitchen towel. Cut cauliflower into bite size florets.
  • For the frying batter mix all-purpose flour, corn flour, salt, black pepper, and ginger-garlic paste. Use water to make a thick paste. The batter has to be of dropping consistency but not too runny.
  • Add the florets in the batter, mix nicely and let them sit in the fridge for half-an-hour.
  • Meanwhile, heat oil in a frying pan to shallow fry the cauliflower florets. Take out florets from the fridge and in small batches shallow fry until crisp from outside.
  • Transfer fried florets into a plate lined with kitchen towel. Once all the florets are fried keep aside while the manchurian sauce is getting ready.
  • From the same pan transfer excess oil to a bowl and leave only 1 – 2 tablespoon in the pan. Heat pan over medium heat. Add chopped garlic, ginger, red chilli and onion. Fry for a minute to release the aroma of ingredients.
  • Now add chopped capsicum and stir-fry for 2 – 3 minutes over high heat.
  • Add soy sauce, tomato sauce, red chili sauce, black pepper, and salt. Stir and add ¼ cup of water followed by cornflour paste. Let the sauce simmer for 5 minutes or till it becomes little thick.
  • At last, add the fried cauliflower florets and stir to evenly coat florets with sauce. Cook for 1 – 2 minute.
  • Garnish Gobi Manchurian with the spring onion greens.
  • Serve Gobi Manchurian warm with fried rice and noodles.

Recipe Notes:

Nutrition

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