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 make a pumpkin tigernut muffins 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 honey to reduce the amount of maple syrup that is used in the recipe. Her blog has some amazing recipes for different health needs.

*this recipe uses a scale, there are very inexpensive ones that work great. We bought ours at Target awhile back and it is still up and running! Scales really help with baking/precision. We use it for sourdough, marshmallows, and a lot of our gluten free baking. Here is a similar one for $11 from amazon.

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!!