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"Pa, I want you to make me some eggs for breakfast (+/- please)... do NOT forget about THE BUTTER!!!!!!!" I used to request, scrap, DEMAND my eggs be served with melted butter on top :-D This as a child because, as I teenaged up and started growing a dietary conscience, the 'evils' of butter were authoritatively brought to the fore by our quote unquote beloved media so that butter = unhealthy = saturated fats = heart disease = horror = grrrr = boo-hoo-hoo. It's only recently that butter's blameless smile has begun shinning under the spotlight (I'm here speaking of the organic kind) and butter = lecithin, selenium, lautic acid, Vitamins A, K, D and E, bla bla bla. While I don't engage in the consumption of butter by the cupful, I often like adding a layer to my (protein) toast, a square to my (protein) pancakes, a tablespoon to some cakes. Though most of the time I completely forget about butter (after years of relegating it to the domains of the 'no, thank you'), sometimes I remember and in it goes. This is what happened here and, notice the macros -> nothing insalubrious and one hell of a taste boom.
Ingredients, all of which are blended together and baked for ~ 30 minutes at a 160 C (320 F) oven:
1/2 cup of liquid egg whites
1/2 cup of quinoa flakes (or instant oats?)
2 tbsp of coconut flour (or ground almonds?)
2 tsp of pea protein
2 tsp of vanilla casein
2 tbsp of whey protein (vanilla)
2 tsbp of 0% Total Greek Yogurt
1 tbsp of butter
1/2 cup of milk (I used cartoned coconut milk)
1/2 banana (or one)
9 walnuts for the top.
Macros per 1/9: 89kcals, 5.8g carbos (1.5g sugars), 7g protein, 3.8g fat (1.2g sat) and 2g fiber.
That's it. They look like pies because I made them in discarded mince pie cases but you bite in and WHAT!? -> a muffin. In retrospect, it would have been nice to add a filling so that, as one bites in, one's expectations of a filling are confirmed instead of "waaaaiiiiit a seeeecond....". Feel free to therefore add one or to bake these guys in muffin cases or even a cake or bread mold, particularly if you're making this for someone that will feel misleaded and/or cheated when facing a pie and chewing a muffin ;-) Whatever shape you decide to bake them in, they turned out really yummm! Very vanillay, soft, and, well two thumbs up, great with coffee, and quickly devourable ;-)