Whole Grain Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
These whole grain lemon poppy seed muffins are the perfect combination of zingy and sweet! Refreshing and delicious, they are also quite nutritious
Who doesn’t love a delicious muffin? I know I do! I make a dozen muffins every single week. I like to try different variations and flavors along the way.
Recently, I got a few lemons from the store for another recipe and it dawned on me that I needed to make a lemon poppy seed muffin. Always one of my favorites, they are sweet, but, with the zing of the lemon. It checks all the boxes for the perfect muffin, in my opinion.
When making muffins, I prefer to use soft white wheat. I grind it in my grain mill on the pastry setting. This yields a very fine and fluffy flour making for a moist muffin.
You can use hard white wheat or even Kamut for these as well.
I recommend trying different varieties and choose the one that you like the most.
For this recipe, you will need:
- Freshly Milled Flour. You may use store bought whole grain flour.
- Salt.
- Baking Powder.
- Baking Soda.
- 1 Lemon for zest and juice.
- Maple Syrup.
- Olive Oil.
- Milk.
- Egg.
- Vanilla.
- Poppy Seeds.
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Whisk together.
Zest the lemon in the bowl and mix well.
In a separate bowl, mix the milk, egg, maple syrup, vanilla, and the juice of the lemon.
Mix well and pour over the flour mixture. Mix just until to combined being careful not to overmix.
Pour the poppy seeds in and fold into the mixture.
Prepare a 12 cup muffin tin by either adding muffin liners or spraying with oil.
Using a large scoop or large spoon, add the mixture to the muffin pan equally. I like to add one scoop to each muffin cup and then equally divide what’s left between the 12.
Bake at 400 degrees F for 15 minutes.
Remove and place on a cooling rack.
Enjoy!
See you soon!
Whole Grain Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Equipment
- 2 mixing bowls
- 1 12 cup muffin tin
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups freshly milled flour can use store bought whole grain flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- zest of 1 lemon
- 1 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp poppy seeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and zest of 1 lemon. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl, combine milk, egg, vanilla, maple syrup, olive oil, and lemon juice. Mix well.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
- Add poppy seeds and fold into the mixture.
- Prepare a 12 cup muffin tin and scoop the mixture evenly in all 12 cups.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- After baking, remove muffins and place on a cooling rack.
