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Vegan Turmeric Carrot Muffins. These sunshine muffins have carrots, dry or fresh turmeric, fresh ginger and chia seeds. Coconut rounds up the flavor for a caramelized carrot ginger turmeric profile along with cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg. Add nuts to these Turmeric muffins. No added sugar or oil needed. Vegan Soyfree Nut-free Recipe. Gluten-free option.
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These muffins are sunshine for the dreary mornings. Golden bites filled with chia, coconut, carrots and turmeric. The fresh sweet carrots when blended release their sweet juices and along with some maple syrup are enough sweetness for the muffin. Turmeric intensifies the color and adds its benefits in these easy muffins. Add cinnamon cashew frosting from my Carrot Cake Loaf to make decadent dessert or carrot cupcakes.
These carrot muffins can be made with fresh turmeric root or powdered turmeric. Turmeric and fresh ginger root add a burst of flavor. Coconut rounds up the flavor for a caramelized carrot ginger turmeric profile. Add nuts or dried fruit of choice. You can bake it into a loaf or make these gluten-free. See notes on the Recipe below.
Turmeric is a peculiar flavor with a slight bitter after profile which at times might need to be acquired. If you are not sure about the flavor, start with just a good pinch of turmeric to try.
If you make these gorgeous muffins, do let me know how they turned out! Please comment and rate it.
More muffins or breakfast loafs from the blog.
- 1 Bowl Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Muffins. GF option
- One bowl Pumpkin Bread
- 1 Bowl Banana Apple Bread. Can be made into muffins
- Tall and Moist Banana Muffins. GF
- Chia Orange Cranberry Muffins
Step by Step Photos
Mix all the dry ingredients.
Blend the carrots with the wet ingredients.
Whisk dry ingredients in a bowl.
Mix with the wet.
Add dates or nuts.
Drop into lined muffin pan. Top with chia seeds or coconut and bake.
Soft, Gorgeous Muffins.
Turmeric Carrot Muffins
Ingredients
Dry:
- 1 1/2 cup flour, (I use 1 cup Spelt/whole wheat + 1/2 cup unbleached all purpose flour) see gluten-free option in the notes
- 2 to 3 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp spice, such as a combination of cardamom cinnamon nutmeg to preference
- 3 to 4 tbsp chopped dates, currants, raisins or other dried fruit
Wet:
- 1 cup chopped carrots (heaped), or 1 packed up grated
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup shredded coconut
- 1 tbsp oil, optional
- 1/2 to 1 tsp turmeric , or use 1/2 inch knob or peeled fresh turmeric
- 1/2 in peeled fresh ginger
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 to 2 tablespoons sugar for sweeter, optional
- 2 to 3 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/2 cup + 1/4 cup non dairy milk such as almond, light coconut or soy
- chia seeds and coconut for topping
Instructions
- In a bowl mix the dry ingredients. Fold in dates, currants or other dried fruit. Preheat the oven to 365 degrees F / 180ºc. Line a muffin pan and set aside.
- In a blender combine all wet ingredients carrots through lemon juice, with 1/2 cup non dairy milk. Blend until carrots are blended but have some texture. Transfer to the dry ingredient bowl. Use 1/4 cup non dairy milk to rinse the blender out and add to the bowl. (Alternatively, mix all the wet ingredients in a bowl until sugar is combined. You will need grated carrots if not using a blender. Add 3 tbsp applesauce with the wet for additional moisture to compensate for the moisture that releases on blending the carrots)
- Mix the wet and dry until just about combined. If too runny, add a few tbsp more flour. Drop the batter into muffin pan. Garnish with chia seeds and coconut.
- Bake for 25 to 28 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes, then serve. Cool completely before storing(on the counter for the day, in the refrigerator for upto 5 days).
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Oh my gosh, these were amazing!! I stumbled across your site when looking for vegan carrot muffins and I’m so glad I did as I’ll be making these all the time! Thank you for the recipe! 🙂
Awesome!
Oh my word – how delicious are these (its Monday breakfast in the office after a wet bike ride to work in rainy London) – are these in the Everyday book at all? Otherwise I will print this out and most definitely make them again. I found them sweet enough with no extra sugar other than the maple syrup, as the juicy raisins I added had sweetness, I also added 1 tbsp of rapeseed oil for moisture as I keep these for 5 days in the fridge. I take 2 to work every weekday.
Awesome! I have a carrot cake in the book. Print this out and put the page in the desserts chapter 🙂
I let one of my colleagues have the second muffin this morning as he commented his wife is allergic to eggs. He is Indian – and he loved them. They make carrot halwa at home but his wife struggles with eggless cakes. Have pointed her in your direction.
I have that same problem right now! How do I have 3 different kinds of nut milk and not coconut?! Lol🤷🏽♀️
good problem to have
Can I turn this to be a round cake?
yes! check at 35 mins if done else continue to bake for longer
Could you omit the coconut?
yes
Hi Richa,
I’ve tried some of your recipes and so far they’re a success!
Would this recipe work with a combination of almond meal & coconut meal?
greetings from the Netherlands
just almond meal and coconut meal for the dry might not work as both are glutenfree and you would need to add some binding. Try this instead . you can use carrot and banana puree instead of all banana https://fettabbau-trim.today/2018/01/gluten-free-banana-bread-flourless-carrot-banana-bread.html%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Hi Richa,
Can we skip all purpose flour and use only whole wheat flour? If not can we sub all purpose flour with ragi flour ? Also, the shredded coconut used is the dry shredded coconut right?
Yes, you can. Use all Spelt flour if you can, as whole wheat can get dense. Ragi will make the muffin more dense as it is a gluten-free flour and it will also add color. If you regularly make whole grain muffins (no ap flour), then ragi + wheat should work for you. If you dont, then there is a texture and flavor adjustment curve when going from regular baked goods to all whole grain as they tend to be denser and have stronger flavors from the flour and might ened additional spices to help mask that. Use ragi with a combination with wheat and all purpose flour in that case.
Hi Richa! Thank you for this recipe. I baked this into a loaf which turned out to be wonderfully fragrant. Will definitely be repeating this in the future, and hope to try out the other recipes you have shared as well 🙂
Made them today and they are sooooo deliciuous!! Spicy, sweet, packed with flavour! Even my husband loved them. Thank you so much for this great recipe!
yay! thanks
Delicious. I used a food processor to grate carrots and blend wet ingredients with added applesauce so cut back to 1/4 cup of maple syrup, not a fan of sweet. Very cake like which worked well with a crumb topping.
For those of you panicking if you don’t have lemon juice: I used 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar and it turned out PERFECTLY! I subbed date syrup for the optional additional sugar and I didn’t have raisins so I added chopped pistachios and candied ginger to the batter. These are so delish – not too sweet, flavorful and healthy! 🙂