Recipe: Gruyére & Roasted Garlic Savoury Muffins

“A savoury muffin?! Life is full of enough disappointments, Gary”. Miranda Hart, in the BBC’s ‘Miranda’

I don’t share Miranda’s views on savoury muffins. As an accompaniment to a steaming bowl of soup, or served with a cheeseboard / salad / pickled onions kind of lunch, they are exquisite – so much more interesting than a bread roll, and perfect as they are straight from the oven, or a few days later split in half, toasted lightly under the grill and slathered in butter.

Don’t be shocked by the proportion of garlic here, (1 clove per muffin!) – when roasted, garlic loses its pungency and turns very sweet, so no garlic death breath – just a lovely, sweet, garlicky background glow.

Gruyére & Roasted Garlic Savoury Muffins

Kate Ford | The Veg Space

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Prep Time 15 mins

Cook Time 25 mins

Total Time 40 mins

Course Breakfast

Servings 6 muffins

Ingredients

  

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• 6 cloves garlic
• 120 g plain flour
• 120 g spelt flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 100 g gruyére cheese grated (check it is vegetarian - some aren't)
• 2 sprigs rosemary finely chopped
• 2 sprigs thyme finely chopped
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 eggs
• 250 ml buttermilk
• 75 ml sunflower oil

Instructions

 

• Turn on your oven to 180ºC / 350ºF / Gas Mark 4.  Place the garlic cloves (still in their skins) in foil, drizzle with a little sunflower oil, and place in the oven, (as it heats up), for 20 minutes.  Remove and leave to cool.
• In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients together - flours, baking powder, most of the cheese (hold back a few tablespoons for sprinkling later), rosemary, thyme and salt.
• In a jug, beat together the wet ingredients - eggs, buttermilk, and sunflower oil. Remove the garlic cloves from their skins by chopping off the root end and squeezing the insides out.  Add this garlic paste to the wet ingredients and beat.  If any large lumps of garlic remain, squash them with a fork.
• Add half of the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and fold together gently to combine.  Gradually add the rest of the wet ingredients until just combined.  Be very careful not to over-mix, (don't be tempted to use a food mixer, even on its lowest setting - your muffins will end up heavy and dense).
• Divide the mixture between six muffin cases, (an ice-cream scoop is very handy for this), and sprinkle with the remaining gruyére.  Bake for 20 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.

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