Part banana bread, part muffin — 100 percent delicious. These muffins are our favorite weekday grab-and-go breakfast/snack/pre-workout pick-me-up. They’re also our veiled attempt to healthify our favorite banana bread recipe, pour the mixture into muffin tins and call it breakfast for the whole week. Enjoy one or two warmed up with a pat of coconut oil or nut butter (preferably alongside a green smoothie or juice).

Vegan Banana Oat Bran Muffins

Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp. ground golden flaxseed
  • 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp. water
  • 2 large ripe bananas, mashed
  • 1 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
  • 1/3 cup raw honey
  • 2 1/4 cup oat bran
  • 1 tbsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
  • 1.5 cup blueberries (optional)

Directions:

  1. Whisk together ground flax and water until well combined. Let mixture sit in the refrigerator for 15 minutes until it forms a thick gel.
  2. Preheat oven to 425°.
  3. In the meantime, mix together mashed bananas, almond milk and honey. When flax mixture is ready, stir in.
  4. In a separate bowl, mix together oat bran, baking powder and cinnamon. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix to combine.
  5. Fold in sunflower seeds and blueberries, if using. Divide mixture evenly between 12 muffin cups.
  6. Bake for 15 minutes and then let cool in the pan for 5 minutes.