Strawberry Muffins (Easy & Vegetarian)

Strawberry muffins recipe that you can make in 30 minutes with a bowl and whisk. Yup, these muffins are so good with a bursting strawberry flavor, very delicious, moist and light. Bonus they are also egg free & totally vegetarian.

Serve these for breakfast with milk or as dessert with a blob of whipped cream or even plain. Here is the best strawberry muffin recipe for you to try at home.

Strawberry is one of my favorite fruits and I love making dishes with it. We love tasty strawberry recipes like

• strawberry smoothie
• creamy strawberry milkshake
• strawberry cookies
• easy strawberry cake
• mojito and many more.

About This Recipe

These strawberry muffins also happen without fail during strawberry season. After all it is very easy, needs very less time and ingredients so why not make the most of red luscious berries lying around.

Make this fresh strawberry muffins today , a super easy recipe that needs 9 ingredients, 30 minutes from start to finish and tastes like million bucks. These bakery style muffins are so yum and flavorful. Toddlers and kids will especially love these muffins with bits of strawberries everywhere.

This is a super versatile & easy strawberry muffin recipe and you can many as many changes in the ingredients and flavorings as you like. While making for toddlers and kids you can easily replace plain flour with whole wheat flour in this muffin. You can also replace sugar with jaggery. Read on to know more variations you can make in this best strawberry muffins recipe.

Ingredients You Will Need

Fresh Strawberries

Fresh strawberries that are ripe, plump and sweet makes the best muffins. The sweeter the berries, less sugar you will need to add. You can also use frozen strawberries, just chop and add them in the batter. No need to thaw.

Yogurt

Yogurt or plain curd is added in good measure as this is an eggless muffin recipe. Curd or yogurt adds a wonderful texture to these muffins.

Sweetener & Flavoring

For this recipe, I have used organic unrefined cane sugar as in most of my recipes. You can also use regular granulated sugar, coconut sugar, jaggery powder for these muffins. I have also added a dash of vanilla extract for flavor.

For intense strawberry flavor you can also add few drops of strawberry extract.

Oil

We use oil in this strawberry muffins recipe instead of butter. Adding oil makes these muffins absolutely moist and soft. You can melted butter of same measure but the muffins will be a bit hard and dense. I have used light olive oil. You can use any oil with mild flavor.

Flour

You can use plain flour or all purpose flour as I did or whole wheat flour. If you are making this recipe for toddlers and kids as breakfast, I suggest you use whole wheat flour. You can even use mix of various grain flours.

Baking Powder & Baking Soda

As with most of the muffin recipes, here also we are using both baking soda & baking powder as leavening agents. It is important to use these ingredients for soft , light and fluffy muffins.

How To Make Strawberry Muffin Recipe

Preparing Batter For Strawberry Muffin

Preheat oven to 180 C or 350 F. Line a muffin tray with paper liners.

Wash and hull the strawberries. Chop them finely and sprinkle 1 teaspoon flour over them. Toss and set aside.

Combine oil and sugar in a large bowl. Whisk well until light.

Add yogurt and mix very well.

Now sift plain flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt over the wet ingredients and mix well. Do not over mix the batter.

Now add the strawberries and mix.

Making Strawberry Muffins

Spoon in the batter into muffin liners and bake for 18-22 minutes. You can also directly grease the muffin cups and spoon in the batter.

Let cool for few minutes and serve strawberry muffins warm or at room temperature. If you are planning to store for later cool the muffins in wire rack completely.

Variations

Vegan Strawberry Muffins

To make strawberry muffins vegan, just replace yogurt with any vegan yogurt like cashew curd or soy curd. You can use any yogurt like almond milk yogurt, coconut yogurt or artisanal yogurt too.

With Almonds or Walnuts

To add some texture to the muffins you can add finely chopped roasted almonds or walnuts to the batter. Add the nuts while tossing the berries to the batter to make more healthy strawberry muffins.

With Crumb Topping

Strawberry muffins tastes delicious with crumb topping. To make crumb topping combine 1/2 cup brown sugar with 2 tablespoons cold butter and mix well. Sprinkle this on the top of each muffins before baking & bake until they turn golden brown. You can also add 2 tablespoons finely chopped toasted almonds to the crumb mixture.

Gluten Free Strawberry Muffin

To make this recipe gluten free just replace the all purpose flour with any of your prefered gluten free blend like almond flour or spelt flour.

Serving & Storage

These egg free strawberry muffins stay good for 2-3 days in the refrigerator and can be frozen for a month. Just store them in suitable airtight containers and warm them gently for few minutes before serving.

This is an oil based recipe which means the muffins will stay soft even on refrigerating unlike butter based recipes.

You can serve these strawberry muffins as breakfast, snack or even as dessert with a scoop of ice cream.

Pro Tips

Always Measure the ingredients precisely for a fail proof recipe. Flours should be leveled properly using a back of knife or spoon.

Do not miss to coat the strawberries in flour. If you add them directly they will sink to the bottom of the batter.

If you prefer a pronounced berry flavor, you can add few drops of berry extractoto the batter.

Never over mix the muffin batter after adding dry ingredients. Just mix until the ingredients are combined. A few streaks of flour is ok. If you over mix the muffins will turn hard. Be gentle with the batter to make perfect vegan blueberry muffins.

If you are using frozen berries, no need to thaw or defrost them. Just toss them into the batter as soon as you remove from the freezer.

To make equal sized muffins, an ice cream scoop is your best bet. This recipe makes 12 standard sized muffins. You can double or halve the recipe. You can also make about 18 mini muffins with this recipe.

Also you can add few chocolate chips on top of each muffin before baking. You can also throw in few chopped fresh berries.

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