Pre-workout Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins

These delicious banana oatmeal muffins are filled with hearty sprouted rolled oats and sweetened with ripe bananas or optional honey/maple syrup. It's the perfect grab-and-go breakfast, they're delicious with no fuss.

Muffins are a convenient for breakfast - I particularly love to eat these along side a couple slices of turkey bacon before heading out the door for my workout.

This is an easy-to-follow recipe, once the wet and dry ingredients are mixed, they're combined, left to rest so the oats soak up moisture, then added to a muffin tin and baked!

Bonus - when eaten cooled these become a resistant starch which helps to boost GLP-1 naturally to keep you fuller longer and make weight loss easier.

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ cups old-fashioned rolled oats

• 1 ½ cups oat flour - you can easily make your own using a blender. See instructions below for details.

• 2 tsp cinnamon

• 2 tsp baking powder

• ½ tsp baking soda

• ½ tsp salt

• 2 ripe bananas - mashed

• 2 eggs - beaten

• ½ cup honey - or maple syrup (optional, I skip)

• ¾ cup milk

• 3 tsp vanilla extract

Directions:

STEP 1: Preheat your oven to 350°F degrees. Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners and set aside.

STEP 2: In a food processor or blender, add 1½ cups rolled oats and blend until it turns into fine oat flour.

STEP 3: Add the oat flour to a medium bowl, along with another 1½ cups of whole rolled oats (you’ll have half oat flour, half whole oats). Add ½ tsp baking soda, 2 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp salt, and 2 tsp cinnamon. Mix everything.

STEP 4: Mix the 2 eggs, ¾ cup milk, ½ cup honey (optional), and 3 tsp vanilla extract in a separate large bowl.

STEP 5: Add the 2 ripe bananas to a plate and mash them thoroughly with a fork. Add the mashed banana to the liquid ingredients and mix.

STEP 6: Add the dry oat mixture to the wet ingredients. Stir everything together until just combined, but don't overmix. Let this sit for 20 minutes to let oats soak up the wet ingredients. This will let the oats absorb some of the moisture to create moist and fluffy muffins.

STEP 7: Give the batter a quick stir, then spoon roughly ¼ cup of batter into each muffin cup.

STEP 8: Place in oven for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean from the muffin. Let cool for 10 minutes, then remove muffins and place on a cooling rack.