Banana Carrot Muffins

Name: Banana Carrot Muffins
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 240 grams mashed ripe banana; 150 grams grated carrots; 150 grams tigernut flour; 50 grams arrowroot; 2 Tablespoons maple syrup; 60 millilitres extra virgin olive oil; 1 Tablespoon lemon juice; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

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These Banana Carrot muffins are a delicious way to eat some fruits and vegetables! They are incredibly easy to make in just a few very simple steps.

3 banana carrot muffins piled up with bananas and carrots in the background

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⭐ Why you'll love this recipe
📖 Ingredient notes
💭 Substitutions
🔪Step by step instructions
👩🏻‍🍳Top tips
💬 Recipe FAQs
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⭐ Why you'll love this recipe

These banana carrot muffins are quick and easy to make.
It's the perfect way to use up some overripe bananas. Other great ways to use them up is with this flambeed banana or these gluten free banana blueberry muffins.
This recipe is shockingly simple.
They make a perfect breakfast, snack or dessert!
Everybody will love these muffins, even those who are not on any "free from" diet.
These super easy to make muffins are gluten free, vegan, paleo and AIP compliant.
These muffins can also be made with no added sugar: just follow the instructions for that!

📖 Ingredient notes

Tigernut flour (or almond flour for those who are not on AIP nor nut free). If you don't know what tigernut flour is and want to learn all about it, you can read my article What is tigernut flour.

If you are on AIP and still in the elimination phase, you have to use tigernut flour (because almond flour is not AIP compliant). Those who are not on AIP nor allergic to nuts can use almond flour instead of tigernut flour.

Bananas. In this recipe, you can use bananas at any stage of ripeness (from yellow to black). I mostly use ripe bananas with many black spots but I've also made these muffins with bananas that were just beginning to get spotty. Keep in mind that the more ripe the banana, the sweeter it is and the stronger taste it has. You can also use frozen bananas, fully thaw them first before using them.

Arrowroot. It is a starch. See below for substitutions.

Grated carrots. I recommend grating the carrots yourself rather than using pre-shredded carrots. There's nothing better than freshly grated carrots. As you can see on the picture below, I use the fine shred on my food processor to have thin grated carrots.

💭 Substitutions

Arrowroot substitutions. If you are not cassava intolerant, you can substitute it with tapioca starch (also called tapioca flour). If you are not on AIP nor Paleo diets: you can use potato starch or corn starch instead of arrowroot.

🔪Step by step instructions

Peel the bananas, break them into pieces and place them in a bowl and mash them with a fork. Add the maple syrup, olive oil, lemon juice (or ACV) and vanilla extract and mix until well combined. If you want, you can also use a small blender to do this.

Banana carrot muffins wet ingredients mixed together in a large bowl.

In a separate bowl, combine all the dry ingredients (flour, arrowroot, baking soda and cinnamon). Stir.

Banana caroot muffins dry ingredients mixed together in a large bowl.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix until well combined.

Banana carrot muffins dry and wet ingredients mixed together in a large bowl with a spoon.

Add the grated carrots and stir again.

Banana carrot muffins batter in a large mixing bowl with a spoon.

Line or lightly oil a muffin pan. Fill each muffin cup with batter, you should get about 8-9 muffins depending on your pan.

Banana carrot muffins batter in a muffin pan, 9 muffin cups are filled with batter.

Bake for about 20-25 minutes.

👩🏻‍🍳Top tips

Tip #1. In order to create tall muffin tops, I fill my muffin tins all the way to the top.
Tip #2. Never open the oven door before the end of the baking time (unless, of course, in case of a danger or problem with your oven). If you open the oven door during the baking time, just to "check how they look", they will fall down or won't rise.

💬 Recipe FAQs

Are there any AIP compliant substitutions for the tigernut flour?

Unfortunately there are no possible substitution for the tigernut flour if you are on AIP and still in the elimination phase. Why? Because all the other AIP compliant flours have very different texture and they all need their own amount of liquid. So it is not possible to replace the tigernut flour with another flour without altering the entire recipe.

Can I make a loaf instead of muffins?

Yes! If you don't have a muffin pan or simply don't feel like having muffins, you can make this as a loaf instead of muffins.
Use a rectangular 4x8 inches (10 x 20 cm) baking tin to make a banana and carrot bread. And cook it for about 35 minutes.

Can I freeze these banana carrot muffins?

Yes! They freeze very well. To thaw them, you can either take them out of the freezer a few hours ahead of time or pop them in the microwave oven (if you still have one, like me, and yes I know that they are very controversial health wise but nobody's perfect lol) for 1 minute or pop them in the oven for a few minutes.

Can I make no sugar banana carrot muffins?

Yes! If you want to make no sugar banana carrot muffins, replace the maple syrup with same quantity of oil or coconut milk.
Also note that the riper the bananas, the sweeter they are. So if you need to watch your sugar intake, even when the sugar comes from fruits, you should use bananas that are not overripe.

I have a nut allergy, how can I make these muffins?

Good news if you have a nut allergy and need a nut-free version, you can make these muffins with tigernut flour. Because tigernut is not a nut!

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