Six Week Health Week Four (low calorie blueberry muffins)

in #sixweekhealth7 years ago (edited)

Hi friends, if you're on a diet and you want to treat yourself, eating a tasty muffin, do not suppress it, do it! Come on, cheer up! In this note you will find the recipe of how to make them and turn them into low-calorie and light blueberry muffins.

Muffins are tempting, and they can also be low in calories. You can even add blueberries, a fruit high in antioxidants and low in calories.

If you combine the muffins with oatmeal and blueberries you can prepare a light recipe, which you can enjoy.

Ingredients

½ cup of oatmeal.
1 teaspoon of baking powder.
Lemon zest.
Essence of blueberries, 100 cc
Sunflower oil 100 cc
½ cup of sweetener powder. (Stevia)
3 eggs
1 tablespoon of honey
100 gr. of fresh or frozen blueberries.
Pirotines for muffins.


Preparation

1-Beat the sweetener and the oil, add the eggs one by one, and continue beating.Add the honey, the lemon zest and the essence of blueberries.

2-Add to the previous mixture the oatmeal and the baking powder, until forming a heavy dough. Finally, add the blueberries.

3--Place this mass in the previously oiled pyrotechnics.

4-It takes preheated oven to 180 degrees Celsius, for about 20 minutes.

5-Remove them from the oven and let cool.

Ready to eat

This recipe is low in calories and contains fruits that provide fiber and antioxidants; These muffins are preparations that you can consume and give yourself a taste, even on a diet.

Just remember that, although they are light muffins you should not abuse and eat them with caution, since the important thing before a diet are the rations, the amount of calories you can eat for days, that is, even if they are healthy, remember that it is a dessert to have a snack The suggested portion is two small muffins. Enjoy them!

To have a little knowledge of what we are eating, we must know the benefits of food. Here we have two ingredients that stand out, oats and blueberries, now that nutritional components contain these:

Nutritional properties of oats:
Oats, Avena sativa, is a cereal. Oats mainly has:


Carbohydrates (60g out of 100)
Vegetable protein (12g out of 100)
fats (7g out of 100).
Water (16g out of 100)
Fiber (5g out of 100)
Also in this cereal we find micronutrients such as vitamins B3 or niacin, E or tocopherol, B6 or pyridoxine, B1 or thiamin, B2 or rivoflavin and B9 or folate.
Ore minerals include phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium, iron, zinc, selenium and iodine.
Then it is a special, healthy food.


Oats gives us 350 kcalories per 100 grams.

Cranberry nutritional properties!

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They are considered one of the fruits with the highest content of antioxidants which, among some of their health benefits, help us to prevent vision problems, combat premature aging or degenerative diseases.


They are rich in flavonoids such as anthocyanins, antioxidants with very positive effects in our body. But they are also source of vitamins C, A and E (with antioxidant action) and group B.

Low in calories, 100 grams of cranberry provide between 41 to 52 calories.

They are really healthy.

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Very cool :). Thanks for the detailed recipe. I'm glad you use real fresh blueberries and not processed preserved ones. Very cool that it is low in calories. Keep it up :)

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