Today we'll be making my favorite breakfast! Power muffins!!
Aric and I make these about twice a week, give or take. They are a quick and easy breakfast and they give you lots of nutrients to take on the day!
I really love this recipe because not only are they good for you and tasty, but you can modify them however you want. For example, this particular recipe is for tomato basil power muffins, but we have made Mexican power muffins, American breakfast style power muffins, and a few others and they are always delicious!
A slight disclaimer: Aric and I do clean eating/paleo, however we don't have sugar of any kind because we want some cheese and milk in our diet. So if you eat traditionally paleo, just leave the cheese out and it is still great!
Ingredients:
-4 pearl tomatoes
-1 small onion
-6 cage free brown eggs
-3 Dorot brand frozen chopped basil cubes (or fresh basil if you prefer)
-1/2 cup ground beef (not pictured because... its ugly.)
-Optional: grated cheese (We used Canadian cheddar from Trader Joes.)
This recipe makes six total muffins.
Alright! On to the steps!
Preheat your oven to 350 Fahrenheit
Chop your onions and tomatoes!
I would HIGHLY suggest that when you are chopping the tomatoes you get as much of the seeds/liquid out of them. I normally scoop it out with the knife and then once I'm done with it all I blot it with a paper towel. If you have cheese cloth, even better!
Combine all your nom noms!
For the eggs, we use 3 whole eggs and 3 whites. Add your basil, tomatoes, onions, and precooked ground beef. (Or other protein. tofu, chicken, steak cubes, etc.) Here's the step where you can add any salt or other seasonings if you like.
I'm not the hugest fan of adding salt to things simply because I'd rather taste the flavors of the food than taste salt.
Scramble all of these yummies together!!
We have popover tins, so I just use those because they cook really evenly, but regular muffin tins should work out just fine!
Fill your tins up about 3/4 of the way so they don't bubble over too bad.
Super important step, make sure you put a cookie sheet under your muffin/popover tin or you'll regret it. (a.k.a. your oven will be a little messy.)
Now cook for 30-35 minutes. Just keep checking them, you'll want them to be golden brown. They might take a little longer, it just sort of depends on if there is cheese or not/how much there is.
Et voila! They are done! Yum yum!
I used a calorie calculator and it looks like if you don't add the cheese you are looking at 108 calories and 5 grams of fat and 8 grams of protein per serving! With the cheese it's 198 calories, 12 grams of fat, and 14 grams protein. Yum!
Enjoy my little cosmonauts!
See you in the future!
Aric + Ashe
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