It's National Vegetarian Week! Woo! Gooo veggies! What better way to celebrate than to make some spinach and goat's cheese muffins.
(and the prize for most tenuous link ever goes to...)
I apologise for the ridiculous number of photos in this post, but these little babies are just too damn pretty! Look at their little tomato hats! To be honest they're more like little cupcakes than muffins because they're pretty tiny (obviously this was a considered decision, and has nothing to do with the fact that I don't own a muffin tin), but spinach cupcakes doesn't sound anywhere near as nice. In fact it sounds a little gross. So we'll stick with muffins, okay?
These muffins are perfectly dense and cakey, and if you leave the goat's cheese in largeish chunks, you get little pockets of it all the way through, which is rather great. I also added a ridiculous amount of black pepper, which I kind of love, so I think you should do it too.
Shall we have one more?
(I meant one more photo, not one more muffin, though they're pretty similar in that once you start you just can't stop. Like Pringles, only better)
- 250g plain flour
- 2tsp baking powder
- 100g cheddar cheese, grated
- 70g fresh spinach, roughly chopped
- Salt
- Black pepper
- 240ml milk
- 60ml olive oil
- 2 eggs
- 75g goat's cheese, coarsely crumbled
- 2 medium tomatoes, thinly sliced
- Preheat the oven to 190°C (Gas Mark 5 / 375°F). Lightly grease a muffin dish, or place 12 cupcake cases in a cupcake dish (I use silicone ones, which I love).
- Combine the flour, baking powder, grated cheddar and chopped spinach in a large bowl, along with a good pinch of salt and a very generous amount of black pepper.
- In a separate bowl, combine the milk with the oil and the eggs, and beat lightly.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry, and fold in until just combined. Finally, fold in the crumbled goat's cheese - be careful not to break it up too much.
- Distribute the mixture evenly between the 12 cupcake cases, and top each with a very thin slice of tomato and a little more salt and pepper.
- Bake for 30 minutes, or until the muffins are golden brown on top. After allowing to cool for a few minutes, transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
For the original recipe for 'cheesy spinach muffins', see Food Lust People Love.
Jeff says
These look delicious! I'm going to give these a try! Have you tried making them with almond flour?
[email protected] says
No I haven't but if you try it let me know if it works! :)
Andy Bailey says
These look lovely! I might give these a go later today, what's the best thing to server them with?
Andrew Bailey says
made them!
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=577442468969426&set=a.559661664080840.1073741825.490041781042829&type=1&theater
they almost look like yours :)
they weren't bad but my eyes kept tricking my tongue and making me expect sweet and not savoury :)
[email protected] says
Ooh they look good!
Christy@SweetandSavoring says
Yum! These just might have to be my foray into savory muffins :)
Jacqueline says
So tasty. I am definitely making these and I love their little tomato hats. Happy Vegetarian Week!!
Koral says
Can not belieeeeve I just found this website! I'm definitely going to have to try out all these recipes, they look SO GOOD! Thanks for sharing :)
Bianca @ Confessions of a Chocoholic says
I love this combo! (In fact, I posted about a spinach-goat cheese-sweet potato quiche today) :) I never make savory muffins but I know I would like these!
kay says
We have a winner! I've been looking for something to make this weekend. Will be heading to the grocery shortly. Thanks for the print recipe button, by the way.
[email protected] says
You're very welcome Kay! Hope they turn out ok! :)
kay says
Made these today! They are cooling right now, but we had to go ahead and try one hot, they smelled so good!. Turned out great! I must confess that we had leftover bacon from breakfast so I crumbled some up into the batter.
[email protected] says
Haha the bacon is fair enough, I just wouldn't eat it myself ;) really glad they seemed to turn out well, hope they tasted as good as they smelled!
kay says
Yeah, sorry about the bacon. :-) They were fabulous! Would you mind if I posted a photo on our blog and linked back to your site for the recipe? These are going on my "to make for Thanksgiving dinner this year" list, by the way. I think they'll be a hit!
[email protected] says
Of course you can, I'd love that! :)
kay says
Thanks! Posted this morning and linked back to you for the recipe. http://threeheadedchef.blogspot.com/2013/05/spinach-goat-cheese-muffins.html
Happy Valley Chow says
Oh my goodness these sound amazing! Great savory muffin :)
Happy Blogging!
Happy Valley Chow
Stacy says
Everything's better with goat cheese! It's one of my laws of cooking. Your muffins came out beautiful! And thanks for the attribution link!
Stacy
LittleMonsterx14 says
OMG i have never seen a more perfect muffin! they literally have all my favorite things all wrapped into one! GET IN MY BELLY!!