Beautiful to look at, very good to taste. Here are our tips for preparing them: whether to make them in a sweet or savory version, you decide!
THE purple potato muffins they are delicious colored sweets that seem to come out of a fairytale book.
They are of this color because they take the color from purple potatoes precisely and they can be stuffed in many ways.
Prepare these muffin it is very simple and can also be made in salted version for a picnic, a snack, an aperitif.
The recipe for purple potato muffins
Ingredients
450 g of purple potatoes
180 ml of milk
150 g of brown sugar
80 g of water
60 g of seed oil
2 tablespoons of maple syrup
375 g of 00 flour
1 sachet of yeast
salt
cinnamon
Method
First boil the whole potatoes with the peel and once soft, mash them and let them cool very well.
As soon as they are cold, mix them with the milk and slowly add the brown sugar, oil, maple syrup and water.
Finally, the powders, then the flour and baking powder well sieved and plenty of cinnamon.
The mixture is now ready and you can pour it into the muffin mold lined with paper cups or oiled and floured.
Bake in a fan oven at 170 ° for about 30 minutes.
A particular consistency
These muffins are more humid classic muffins both because mashed potatoes make any dough softer and because there are no eggs that mounted would give more volume.
If you prefer very leavened muffins we suggest you work the ingredients with a planetary mixer or with whips to mix them perfectly and create air inside.
Chocolate variant
You can add some to the base compound dark chocolate chips and wanting a spoonful of bitter cocoa if you prefer a more delicious version, but you can also fill the inside of these muffins with one hazelnut spread cream.
When you pour the mixture into the mold, put a heart of hazelnut cream, or even almonds, in the center of each muffin and cover with another mixture.
Fruit variant
Potatoes have a very delicate taste that lends itself to many combinations.
That's why you can enrich these muffins too with apples or other fruit.
If you opt for the apples, cut them into thin slices and mix them with the dough or arrange them on the surface by cutting them to make a kind of flower.
They are also very good with blueberries and raspberries as well as beautiful to look at for the color shades that are created.
If you want to sweeten them and soften them a little, you can mix half a crushed banana in the dough and then add a tablespoon of extra flour.
Savory variant
To prepare salted purple potato muffins simply remove the sugars and add aromatic herbs and spices at will.
Then fill them with fresh herbal cheeses and grilled vegetables.
You can also make these muffins with classic or American potatoes, always obtaining different colors.
Find out more tips for making purple potato muffins in the tutorial
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