By Laura
Posted Feb 25, 2018, Updated Oct 04, 2021
4.97 from 142 votes
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These blender banana spinach muffins are an easy, healthy, freezer-friendly breakfast recipe full of fruit and veggies! They are gluten-free, dairy-free and have no refined sugar!
You all know I have a thing for hiding vegetables in baked goods. Usually, my veggie of choice is zucchini, buttoday I’m mixing things up a bit! This recipe for Spinach Banana Muffins ishealthy, delicious and easy!
My kids love them because they’re green! We even call them “Hulk muffins,” which my son thinks is the coolest things ever.Because what kid wouldn’t want to eat a muffin named after a super cool super hero?
I love making these for my family because they’re a breakfast I feel great about serving them! These Spinach Banana Muffins are gluten-free, refined-sugar free, dairy-free and vegan-friendly! Theytaste like a green smoothie but in muffin form!
How to make Spinach Muffins
The best way to make these Spinach Banana Muffinsis to use a high-powered blender, like theVitamix! Using aVitamixto thoroughly blend the ingredients in these Spinach Banana Muffins results in a final product that has zerotraces of spinach, well except for the awesomegreen color!
- Blend dry ingredients then set aside.To make these muffins…start by putting the oats into your clean, dryVitamixand turn them into oat flour!Add the rest of the ingredients, blend and set aside.
- Blend wet ingredients.When blending anything in theVitamix, always add the liquid first! In this recipe, start by adding the liquid ingredients, banana and spinach and blend until smooth before adding the dry mixture!
Serve
Serve warm with a slather of homemade peanut butter or cinnamon honey butter.
Store/freeze
Store these spinach banana muffins in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 2 months.
Spinach muffins: Ingredients & substitutions
These are extremely forgiving muffins and there are many acceptable substitutions (although I always recommend making the recipe exactly as written to achieve thebest results)! Even at high altitude (I bake at 5,000 ft. above sea level) they rise beautifully and have a wonderful texture! Some notes about substitutions:
- Ground Flaxseed: You maysubstitute equal amounts of almond meal or old-fashioned oats (ground into flour) for the flaxseed.
- Coconut Sugar: Use any granulated sugar you’d like.
- Almond milk:non-dairy and regular dairy milk both work well.
- CoconutOil:You may substitute vegan butter (like Earth Balance), regular butter, or ghee.
- Eggs:For vegan version substitute the 2 eggs with 2 TBS ground chia seeds or ground flaxseed and 5 TBS water.
Recipe FAQs
Can I make this recipe in a food processor?
No, I only recommend using a blender so that all of the spinach gets completely blended until smooth.
Can I double this recipe?
I often double this recipe to have enough in the freezer to last us a while.
Can I feed these to a baby/toddler?
I created these muffins for that exact purpose – to feed to my young babies/kids. Just make sure to cut them into very small pieces for babies and don’t ever leave a baby unattended while they are eating.
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Spinach Banana Muffins
Laura
These blender banana spinach muffins are an easy, healthy, freezer-friendly breakfast recipe full of fruit and veggies! They are gluten-free, dairy-free and have no refined sugar!
4.97 from 142 votes
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 16 Muffins
Calories 124.7
Prep Time5 minutes minutes
Cook Time25 minutes minutes
Total Time30 minutes minutes
Ingredients
- 2 cups old-fashioned oats
- ¼ cup ground flaxseed
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ cup coconut sugar or your favorite granulated sugar
- ½ cup almond milk
- 2 cups packed spinach leaves
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- 2 extra-ripe large bananas
- 2 eggs**
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease or line a muffin tin.
Put 2 cups of old-fashioned oats in your blender (Vitamix) and blend until the oats achieve the texture of flour. Transfer to a medium mixing bowl.
Add the rest of the dry ingredients to the oat flour (ground flaxseed, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and sugar). Set aside.
Add almond milk to the blender followed by 2 cups of spinach. Blend together until completely smooth and hom*ogenous.
Add bananas and coconut oil and blend until smooth.
Add vanilla and eggs and blend until just combined
Pour wet ingredients to dry mixture and stir to combine (making sure there are no lumps)!
Fill each well in your muffin tin with ¼ cup of batter. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean and the top springs back when touched.
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Notes
Ingredient Substitutions
- Ground Flaxseed: You maysubstitute equal amounts of almond meal or old-fashioned oats (ground into flour) for the flaxseed.
- Coconut Sugar: Use any granulated sugar you’d like.
- Almond milk:non-dairy and regular dairy milk both work well.
- CoconutOil:You may substitute vegan butter (like Earth Balance), regular butter, or ghee.
- Eggs:For vegan version substitute the 2 eggs with 2 TBS ground chia seeds or ground flaxseed and 5 TBS water.
Store/freeze
Store these spinach banana muffins in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 2 months.
Nutrition
Serving: 1muffin | Calories: 124.7kcal | Carbohydrates: 16.9g | Protein: 2.7g | Fat: 5.6g | Cholesterol: 23.3mg | Potassium: 87.7mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 415IU | Vitamin C: 3.3mg | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 0.8mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Parenting tangent:
I used to stress about feeding my kids veggies. I so desperately wanted them to beg me for giant plates of stir-fry and get excited over skewers full of colorful grilled vegetables. This is why my husband is so wonderful (well, one of the many reasons). He helps me see reality…that even though our kids don’t go gagaover a bowl full of roasted Brussels sprouts, the hard work has paid off and they really are great eaters.
They justknow that lunch and dinner always include one fruit and one veggie. I ask them “what veggie do you want” (as opposed to, “do you want a vegetable?”) and they get to choose. It’s usually carrots or cucumbers (andalwaysraw), but I am perfectly fine with that.
My goal is to teach my kids at a young age that healthy eating is important. I think they get the drift, and sometimes they even ask for a snack of carrots and hummus just because that’s what they’re craving! And every day while I cook dinner I put out a plate of raw veggies taht almost always gets devoured!
These Spinach Banana Muffins are another healthy-eating staple in my house. Sometimes I get crazy and add chocolate chips (or cinnamon chips)! Serve themslathered with a healthy amount of almond butter and you have yourself the perfect breakfast!
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