Apple and Honey Muffins

Healthy Eating Recipes

Ingredients:

• 2 egg whites 
• 240g (8 oz) Wholemeal flour 
• 1 tablespoon baking powder 
• 1/2 teaspoon salt 
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 170ml (6 fl oz) skimmed milk 
• 4 tablespoons vegetable oil 
• 4 tablespoons honey 
• 110g (4 oz) chopped cooking apple

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 190 C / Gas mark 5. Lightly grease one 12-cup muffin tin, or line with paper muffin cups.
2. Lightly beat egg whites.
3. In a separate bowl, mix dry ingredients thoroughly.
4. In a separate bowl, mix together milk, oil, honey and apples. Gently fold in egg whites to the wet mixture. Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients. Fold together until just moistened. Batter will be lumpy.
5. Fill greased muffin tins two-thirds full. Bake about 20 minutes until lightly browned.
6. Leave in the tins to cool then turn the muffins out onto a wire cooling tray.

Guinness Beer Batter

A delicious dark beer batter, perfect for fish!

Ok, you don't have to use Guinness™ but as this an Irish blog.... well I have to say tryGuiness but other beers work just as well!


Ingredients:

• One cup of flour
• One cup of Guinness [feel free to substitute your favourite beer]
• Garlic powder, pepper to taste
  

Directions:
Add your favourite spice to the flour, mix well and add the beer.  Mix until well blended with no lumps.

Use as a batter for fish, making sure the fish is completely dry before dipping into the Guinness batter.

Yummy Toffee Sauce

Great with Ice-Cream (or on it's own if you're all out of ice-cream)

This is a quick and easy way to make a delicious toffee sauce, just Yummy as Michael says!


Ingredients:

• 50g Brown Sugar
• 50g Irish Butter
• 125ml Milk (or cream if you really need the calories)
• 3 tbs Golden Syrup

Directions:
Melt the butter and sugar over a high heat with the sugar until fully dissolved. Whisk in the golden syrup and milk (or cream) over a moderate heat until just boiling. Remove from the heat and allow to cool sufficiently to thicken a little. Pour over ice-cream and enjoy.

Above sufficient to make a very generous sauce for 6 bowls of ice-cream.