Allergy friendly TIgernut Muffins (GF, DF, SF, EF)
Known as a super food, tigernut is a grain free flour with a host of health benefits and a great baking companion when going gluten or grain free. Tigernut is not a nut at all, making it an allergen frienldy flour. Tigernuts are ground tubers that grow on a plant and are packed full of minerals, vitamins, folic acid, prebiotics, and fiber. It has a sweet and nutty flavor, with a bit of a courser texture than wheat flour, and in our opinion- totally delicious!
Right now the kids have a muffin with sausage and fruit for breakfast. We made a pumking tigernut muffin with chocolate chips, but there are so many different ways to use this awesome flour. One of the best prices and quality for tigernut flour that I have found is on Thrive. (use this code for 40% off your first order + a free gift!).
I’ve modified this recipe from Go Healthy with Bae to make 12 muffins instead of 6, and I use some applesauce to reduce the amount of maple syrup that is used in the recipe. Her blog has some amazing health recipes different health needs.
Ingredients:
225g Tigernut Flour
375g pumpkin puree
75g arrowroot powder
93 mL maple syrup
93 mL applesauce or honey ( I prefer honey but applesauce works too!)
1.5 tsp baking soda
1.5 TBPS apple cider vinegar
1.5 tsp cinnamon
1.5 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp ginger
1/4 cloves
1/4 cup chocolate chips (df, sf)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 360° F
In a bowl, whisk the maple syrup, applesauce, pumpkin puree, ACV, and vanilla. Mix until combined.
In a large bowl, mix the tigernut flour, arrow root, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Stir.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix until well combined.
Line or lightly oil a muffin pan. Fill each muffin cup with batter, you should get about 12 muffins depending on your pan.
Bake for about 25 minutes for the muffins. To make sure that they are cooked, insert a toothpick into the center of one muffin, and it should come out clean. Let them cool down a bit in the pan and then move to a cooling rack.
Enjoy!!