Banana and medjool date muffins

Name: Banana and medjool date muffins
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: South African
Ingredients: 300 g self-raising flour; 150 g sugar; 60 ml olive oil/ or any oil; 100 ml buttermilk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1/4 cup chia seeds; 4 bananas; 150 g medjool dates, pitted and chopped; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; Pinch salt; 1 egg

Dominique Solomon @cook_7578122

Cape Town, South Africa

These muffins are the perfect snack to jumpstart your mornings, works just as well for that late afternoon slump when you need a healthy snack.

Dominique Solomon @cook_7578122

Cape Town, South Africa

These muffins are the perfect snack to jumpstart your mornings, works just as well for that late afternoon slump when you need a healthy snack.

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Ingredients

6 servings

300 gself-raising flour
150 gsugar
60 mlolive oil/ or any oil
100 mlbuttermilk
1 teaspoonvanilla extract
1/4 cupchia seeds
4bananas
150 gmedjool dates, pitted and chopped
1 teaspoonground cinnamon
Pinchsalt
1egg

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.
2

In a large bowl, sift the flour, add the sugar, cinnamon and pinch of salt.
3

Mash 3 bananas up(set the other one aside) and add to a separate bowl. To that bowl, add the egg, buttermilk, oil, dates and vanilla extract. Combine with the bowl with flour(dry ingredients) add half of the chia seeds to the batter.
4

In a greased muffin tin, scoop out the batter into the tin. Slice the remaining banana into slices and place on top of batter. Sprinkle over the other half of the remaining chia seeds on top of the batter.
5

Bake for 20 minutes until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Serve with a piping hot cup of tea or coffee as a great on the go snack :)