Raisin oat breakfast muffins are a great grab and go breakfast. These healthy muffins are made with oats, orange juice, honey, Greek yogurt and raisins. A complete breakfast in one!
These raisin oat breakfast muffins are not only great for breakfast but they also make perfect healthy snacks.
Simple to make, they contain no refined sugar or butter.
Plus, because I made them with oats, you can bet these muffins are pretty filling too.
You won't be tempted to reach for any unhealthy snacks once you've had one of these!
Recently these muffins saved my life.
OK, so that's a little bit extreme but let me explain. It happened just after the gym, early on a Tuesday morning a few weeks ago.
(Read the post how we follow the 80/20 rule for eating and you'll get an idea of a typical week in our lives. My gym mornings during the week are Monday's and Wednesday's.)
It's a short drive from the gym to my work in Glasgow City Centre, but it does involve negotiating one of Europe's busiest Motorway bridges, The Kingston Bridge.
If anything happens on that bridge, traffic grinds to a halt.
Well guess what? That Tuesday morning something happened and traffic ground to a halt!
Now, normally I'd just roll my eyes, sigh and turn up the radio.
But that particular Tuesday for some reason after my gym session I was starving.
Normally I can hold off my stomach grumbling for the 30 minutes it takes me to get from the gym to my work where I can heat up my morning porridge in the microwave.
Not this morning though.
As we all sat in the backed up traffic staring at the stationary cars in front of us my stomach shouted "Feed me. FEED ME NOW!".
Now, it just so happened that the previous evening I'd made a batch of these raisin oat breakfast muffins and I was taking them into work to trial them on out my work colleagues, as I do with most of my baked recipes.
In reaching round behind my chair I placed the plastic container containing these "life savers" onto the passenger chair and eagerly ripped off the paper case from a muffin, devouring it in practically one go.
Let me tell you, it was good. It was soon joined by another but, that was enough, because as I said these are pretty filling.
So that's the story of how these breakfast muffins saved my life!
You know folks, even if I had made it halfway between the gym and my work, to that all famous green coffee shop to pick up my morning Americano, their store bought muffins wouldn't have satiated me.
Even the so called "skinny" ones are packed with more fat and calories than you really want to know about.
No, there is only one solution in order to have healthy breakfast muffins. You've got to make them yourself.
My breakfast muffins are relatively low in fat and calories, and are packed with goodness, fibre and healthy fats.
They're also extremely filling and not full of air like those ones I've mentioned!
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Raisin Oat Breakfast Muffins Recipe
Store your breakfast oat muffins for 2 - 3 days in a air-tight sealed container. If they last that long!
I’d also love to hear what you think of my recipe in the comments below and please do rate my recipe 5* if you like it! 🙂
Raisin Oat Breakfast Muffins Recipe
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 160 ml orange juice
- 80 g honey
- 2 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoon low fat Greek yogurt
- 2 medium eggs , lightly beaten
- 250 g self-raising flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 60 g porridge oats
- 60 g raisins
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 180C fan and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.
- In a bowl combine the wet ingredients, the orange juice, honey, oil. yogurt and beaten eggs together.
- In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients, the flour, baking powder, porridge oats and raisins together.
- Fold the contents of the wet bowl into the dry ingredient bowl.
- Spoon the muffin mixture into the muffin cases. Each muffin case should be about ¾ full of the mixture.
- Bake in the centre of the oven for about 20 – 25 minutes. Check they are cooked through by inserting a wooden skewer which should come out clean.
- Place on a wire rack to cool.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I love that you used orange juice in these! Can't go wrong with some citrusy oatmeal raisin!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Fresh orange juice is all part of a healthy morning breakfast.
I think I managed to pack it all into one? 🙂
David @ Spiced
What?? You don't carry a box of freshly baked muffins around at all times? Haha! So I loved this story, Neil. There is nothing worse then being hungry and not being able to do anything about it. That often leads to hangry, and things just go downhill from there. Lucky for you that you had these muffins on hand! I love a good muffin, but I don't make them that often. I also love a good oat muffin, and these sound like my kind of weekday breakfast. (I say weekday because we try to eat smarter during the week so that we can cheat on the weekends!) I wonder if oat bran would be a good addition here? I love bran muffins!! Hope you have a great weekend, my friend!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Ha ha! Yeah that's right David. Lynne tells me when I've gone and "hangry" and immediately insists that I get something to eat straight away!
I'm terrible when I'm hangry. All bad tempered and grumpy, lol. I should think these could be made with oat bran too.
Like yourselves we're also healthy eaters during the week and enjoy ourselves with more indulgency during the weekend. All part of our 80:20.
Hope you have a great weekend too. 🙂
GiGi Eats
No raisins for me - never liked those weirdly shriveled up suckers. But everything else sounds good. If I could eat these - You'd see me picking out the raisins - LOL!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Poor little raisins! 😉
Oh well for you, as you don't like raisins, that would give me a "raisin" to have to make these without raisins. LOL! I'm so funny. 😀
Ashika | Gardening Foodie
Oh my gosh! This will make the perfect breakfast solution in my home, because every morning is a crazy, busy start to the day. The kids and my husband grabbing toast, and me just a cup of coffee. This is great because I can make a batch during the weekend and save it for the mornings. Just checking, do you know whether these muffins freeze well?
Thanks for the great recipe. Have a fantastic weekend!?
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Hi Ashika, I haven't tried to freeze these muffins yet (mainly because they haven't lasted that long in our house 😉 ) but I think they should be fine for freezing, yes!
They go well with a cup of coffee I can tell you that though!
Glad to help out in any way I can in your busy household, it does sound crazy. LOL 😀
Pamela (BrooklynFarmGirl)
These muffins look so good!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks Pamela. Taste really good too and would go great after your recent bagel recipe! 🙂
Agness of Run Agness Run
Yummy! These muffins seem so mouth-watering! I can't wait to start the day with them!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks so much Agness!
These make great snacks for grabbing after a good run too! 🙂