Are you looking for some lunchbox inspiration? Mila’s Meals Sweet Potato & Cranberry Muffins are the perfect lunchbox and tummy filler. They freeze well, for up to a month, so make a double batch and keep them in the freezer.
Ingredients
- 1 cup rolled oats, ground
- 1 cup sorghum flour, or brown rice flour
- ½ t. baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)
- 1 t. aluminum-free baking powder
- ¾ t. nutmeg
- ¾ t. cinnamon
- 1 cup sweet potato, steamed, cooled and mashed
- 2 T. raw honey (or organic maple syrup if you are vegan or your little one is younger than a year old)
- 3 T. coconut oil (or ghee or butter), melted
- 2 T. dried cranberries
- ¼ cup coconut milk
- 1 egg
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC (350ºF).
- Sieve the ground oats, sorghum flour or rice flour, baking soda, baking powder and spices together in a bowl.
- In a separate bowl, mix together the mashed sweet potato, honey (or maple syrup), coconut oil, cranberries, milk and egg.
- Add this mixture to the dry ingredients and mix together until the ingredients are all completely moistened – but do not over-mix.
- Grease your muffin pans with coconut oil and spoon in the mixture making sure it reaches the brim of the pan.
- Cook for 20 minutes until risen and golden.
- Allow the muffins to cool slightly in the pan before removing and eating, or leave to cool completely on a wire rack.
- Place in a container, seal and freeze as soon as they have cooled.
Mila’s Meals: The Beginnings & The Basics’ is a 500-page, multiple award-winning “tome” of a cookbook. With over 100 nutrient-dense, gluten-free, dairy-free AND refined sugar-free recipes and a wealth of knowledge about the food industry and using food as medicine.
Covering The Beginning of your little one’s life-long food journey (food introduction etc.) and The Basics of nourishing your whole family – it’s as much about learning how to feed your baby as it is about re-learning how to feed yourself!
Revised and reprinted (due to popular demand), ‘Mila’s Meals’ is now available as a second edition. View more information on their website:
https://milasmeals.co.za/about-the-book/
Mila’s Meals can be purchased in our Noordhoek store.
