Pumpkin Cornmeal Muffins

Makes 1 dozen muffins
Time 30 min
Pumpkin Cornmeal Muffins

These are not overly sweet muffins making them perfect as a snack, but they're at home in a bread basket, too. Swap in your favorite winter squash or even mashed sweet potato for the pumpkin. If using a very sweet squash or sweet potato, adjust the sugar as needed.

Special Diets:

VegetarianVegetarian

Ingredients

    1/2 cupcooked, mashed fresh or canned pumpkin
    2eggs
    1/4 cupnonfat plain yogurt
    1/3 cupcanola oil or melted unsalted butter
    1 1/4 cupsyellow cornmeal
    3/4 cupwhole wheat pastry flour
    1/3 cupsugar
    2 teaspoonsbaking powder
    1/2 teaspoonfine sea salt

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Method

Preheat the oven to 400°F.


Lightly oil a 12-cup muffin tin or line with muffin papers. 


In a large bowl, combine pumpkin, eggs, yogurt and oil or butter. 


In a separate bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. 


Add dry ingredients to the liquid ingredients, stirring just to combine. 


Spoon batter into the prepared muffin tin and bake 20 to 25 minutes, until muffins are golden and a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.

Nutritional Info

Serving Size

1 muffin

Calories

170

Total Fat

7g

Saturated Fat

0.5g

Cholesterol

35mg

Sodium

230mg

Total Carbohydrate

24g

Dietary Fiber

3g

Total Sugars

5g

Protein

3g

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