Wild Blueberry Muffins Recipe

This Wild Blueberry Muffins Recipe is simple to prepare, light, healthy and delicious to consume. The fact that we prepare this recipe with wild blueberries, make it healthier and more nutritional. Consuming these tasty muffins, we can enjoy not only the sweetness and delicateness of this wild blueberry muffins, but at the same time to benefit from the high value of the vitamin C and K, which this fruit contains.

The blueberry’s fruit mainly contains water, about 84%, and the other part is made by carbohydrates about 14, proteins, 0,7% and fat in very low values, only 0,3 %. The fruit of the wild blueberry is riches in dietary fibres, vitamins, and minerals. If we consume it, we can provide considerable daily value for our body of vitamin C, K, E, and minerals like manganese, magnesium, iron, and the dietary fibres that improve our digestions.

Blueberry is a fruit with low caloric and glycemic values. It also contains phenols that have an important role in our body and organism. At the wild blueberry, these phenols value is higher than the cultivated varieties. For the nutritional values that this fruit contains and for the pleasure that any of us prove consuming it, the blueberry cultivated all around the world, but mostly in North and South Americas, Australia, New Zealand.

Fortunately, in some areas of Albania, in the north and northeast areas, the wild blueberry grows,  so we have the opportunity to find it when it is matured.

The wild blueberry has a smaller grain than the cultivated varieties, and it has a high value of vitamins C and K, low glycemic values and it tastes not so sweet like the cultivated varieties. For its low glycemic values, it considers one of the best fruit to consume from diabetic persons or everyone that suffers from urinary tract infections.

We recommend to bye and consume fresh blueberries, how many times you can find them in the market. We can consume them as any other raw fruit, to use in our breakfast meals with cereals, in juices, in purée, or cooking tarts, muffins, pie, cookies, and many other desserts recipes, one of which is this one that we want to share with you today.

When we find fresh blueberries in the market, we can conserve them in the freezer, and use them when we want.

The other ways to conserve this fruit is to prepare delicious blueberry jam or jelly. We can also conserve as a dry fruit and prepare with it delicious and curative teas during the cold seasons.

From the wild blueberry, we can produce delicious wine and Albanian raki, by the fermentation of the fresh matured fruit and its skin.

These wild blueberry muffins are delicious and perfect to consume during our breakfasts or as a snack by all our families. Especially these muffins are preferred by the kids, and they are a healthy snack to take away in schools or daycare and consume during lunch or snack time.

The wild blueberry muffins, like all muffins recipes, are a good choice for our family events, or banquets, like birthday parties, season holidays, etc.

Ingredients for 10-12 muffins

• 2 eggs
• 150g of sugar
• 100 ml of vegetal oil ( corn, sunflower, etc.)
• 150 ml of milk
• 250 g all-purpose flour
• 200 g wild blueberries
• 1 package of baking powder
• Vanilla extract
• Powder sugar for decorating

Directions

1. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees. Prepare all the ingredients before starting to cook blueberry muffins.
2. We need a muffins pan to bake them. If you have muffins baking papers, then just put one of each in any muffins shape. This is the easiest methods to put out the muffins from the muffins baking pan. This also is a nice way to serve them, and we can use muffins baking paper according to our event, like a birthday party, Halloween party, etc. When we don’t have muffin baking papers, we can use a sort of spry baking fat for greasing the baking pan, which is also good to take out the muffins from their stencil shapes after baking them. The last way is to grease the baking pan with butter or oil and to flourish it with flour. When the muffing pan is ready, we continue to prepare the muffins dough.
3. In a deep bowl, we add eggs and sugar, and with an electric egg beater, we mix them until it creates a creamy foam. If you will use a liquid vanilla, you need to add it at this moment to the bowl. If we use vanilla extracts or sugar vanilla then we add it before adding the flour.
4. Add the oil little by little to the eggs liquid and continue mixing it until the oil is completely absorbed by the liquid mixture.
5. Add the milk and continue mixing with an electric beater until it creates a homogeneous liquid.
6. We mix the sifted flour with the baking powder and add little by little to the liquid mixture mixing until it will be a soft and creamy dough.
7. We add the cleaned wild blueberries to the muffin dough and mix it carefully with a spoon to open them in all the dough. A part of them we keep apart to add on the top of the blueberry muffins. The wild blueberry can stay perfectly to the dough and they don’t fall down at the bottom of the muffins stencils during the baking time. If you will use blueberries cultivated varieties, then we flourish them with a little flour before adding to the muffin dough.
8. We will fill the muffins pan with a spoon in 3/4 of each of them and we add some of the blueberries on the top of each muffin. If you don’t have the muffins baking pan, then you can use a mono-use aluminium small baking pan or silicone shapes that we also use for other small cakes or desserts in small sizes.
9. We bake them in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes. Do not open the oven during the first 20 minutes. In the end, we always do the tooth stick check. It will be dry if the muffins are baked properly.
10. We put the muffins out from the oven, and let them cool for some minutes. After removing from the baking pan, we decorate the blueberry muffins with powder sugar.