Healthy and Easy Banana Ginger Muffins
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Banana Ginger Muffins are soft, warmly spiced muffins with walnuts or pecans that become addictive in the morning. They’re easy, healthy, and perfect!
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What I Love About Banana Ginger Muffins
Muffin baking is a weekly event in my house. They are a perfect grab-and-go snack or meal, like breakfast or lunch. They are healthy, filling, and sweet enough to soften those typical, hectic mornings.
I like to bake a couple of batches of muffins early in the week. The flavors and additions vary depending on the season or what I need to use. We love blueberry muffins year-round, as well as these Banana Ginger muffins.
And if you love banana muffins, my Maple Banana Muffins are delicious too with maple flavorings and Greek yogurt.
Mixing up basic recipes by incorporating seasonal elements helps keep them fresh, interesting, and flavorful. In the spring, I love to add a variety of berries. In the summer, I’ll incorporate zucchini and carrots. And in the fall and winter—well, everything goes well in the fall and winter! During the cold months, I love to use my freezer stash of delicious berries I froze from the summer before.
So, grab yourself a cup of coffee and get to baking. Oh, did I mention that these are incredible with a cup of coffee or tea?
More Muffin Recipes to Try Next
- Maple Banana Muffins
- Mixed Berry Yogurt Muffins
- Healthy Morning Glory Muffins
- Greek Yogurt Lemon Muffins
- Lemon Blueberry Muffins
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Healthy Banana Ginger Muffins Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 bananas mashed
- 1/2 cup pecans chopped (or walnuts)
- 3/4 cup old fashioned oats
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup brown sugar plus more for garnish if desired
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger for a bolder flavor, grate 1/4 teaspoon fresh ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 6 tablespoons melted butter
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees and spray a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking oil. Set aside.
- Combine the mashed bananas, nuts, oats, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, ginger and salt. In a separate bowl whisk together the egg, milk, and melted butter. Add the egg mixture all at once to the dry ingredients and stir until combined.
- Using a cookie scoop, spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups. Garnish with brown sugar to taste on top of each muffin. Bake at 400 degrees for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool slightly and serve warm.
Nutrition
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Excellent! Always nice to have a variation of a banana muffin. I followed the recipe except omitted nuts, used small oats instead of large, and did half whole wheat flour. Turned out great 🙂
Oh My YUM 😋!!! Delish
Thank you, Debbie, for trying the recipe and rating it! I’m so glad you enjoyed them!!
I just made these as I had some brown bananas. I doubled the ground ginger and added chopped glacé ginger too. Absolutely delicious.
Thank you for trying these muffins, Kerrie. I’m so glad you enjoyed them. Like you, I love to double the ginger too!
These are great! I doubled the ginger and also mixed ginger and surar on top. Mmmmmmm
Hi Georgia! The love the additional ginger you used. I’m so glad you liked them!
Made these twice now. They are so moist and a wonderful combination of flavors with banana, ginger and pecans. I made a crusty topping of pecans and dark brown sugar in the mini chopper.
I’m such a fan of that flavor combination too! Awesome idea to use a mini chopper for the topping!
Baked these and they turned out so moist and delicious! Absolutely loved them. Didn’t have oats so substituted with flour and an extra banana. Would highly recommend this recipe!
Hi Neena! I’m SO glad you liked these muffins. I love the flavor combination in them. Thank you for letting us know!!