Watermelon Muffins
Watermelon muffins with freshwatermelon are the perfect summer dish which is great to serve as a snack, for tiffin box or have it with your morning or evening tea or coffee.
Equipment
- OTG
- 240 ml measuring cup set
- Mixing bowl
- hand blender
- Spatula
- muffin tray
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1½ cup watermelon
- 50 ml whiole milk
- 1 tablespoon vinegar (15 ml)
- ¼ cup oil (60 ml)
- ⅓-½ cup cane sugar or regular sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup chocolate chips + 2 tablespoon for topping
- ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 180° C for 10 minutes. Line the muffin tray with liners or simply grease it with oil or butter.
- In a bowl add the chopped watermelon and blend it until pulpy. You can use a mixie but we dont want to blend the watermelon completely. Keep it pulpy.
- Add sugar, oil, milk, vinegar and mix until well combined.
- Sieve in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt into the wet ingredients. Fold the mixture and make a batter.
- Coat the chocolate chips in little flour. Stir in the chocolate chips into the batter and give a quick gentle mix.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared muffin tray till ¾th of the cavity. Tap the muffin tray for 3-4 times to release any air bubbles inside. Garnish with some chocolate chips.
- Bake the muffins at preheated oven @180° C for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer or toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and allow to rest for 5-10 minutes. Transfer to cooling rack and allow to cool down completely and serve. Enjoy!
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Notes
- Always preheat oven before starting to bake.
- All ingredients should be at room temperature.
- Always sieve the flour atleast twice.
- Whole wheat flour can be substituted with all purpose flour or can bake with 50-50 of both.
- Cane sugar can be substituted with regular refined sugar, jaggery or brown sugar. You can increase the sugar to ½ cup if your watermelon is very sweet.
- Try using riped sweet watermelon.
- You can add nuts of your choice too.
- Oil can be substituted with butter.
- Use whole milk for extra richness, taste and texture.
- Vinegar can be substituted with lemon juice.
- To make with egg, use 2 eggs and omit the milk, baking soda and vinegar.
- Every oven reacts differently so baking time may vary.
- Bake with both the filaments (rods) on.
- You can make plain watermelon muffins by omitting the chocolate chips.
- You can make tea cake, layer cake or cupcakes with this recipe and frost it with your favourite frosting like whipped cream, cream cheese, butter cream or chocolate ganache.