Banana Strawberry Muffins

Ingredients

All purpose Flour / Maida - 1 cup (heaped)
Brown Sugar - 1/4 cup + 2 sp
Salt - 1/4 sp
Baking powder - 3/4 sp
Baking soda - a pinch
Butter (melted) - 1/4 cup (or) 1/2 stick
Egg - 1
Vanilla (Pure extract) - 1/2 sp
Ripe banana - 1
Strawberries - 1/2 cup (cut to small pieces)

Method

1. In a large bowl, add flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda and mix them together.
2. In another bowl, mash well the banana with a fork or just by hand.
3. To this add the melted butter, egg, vanilla one by one and beat them.
4. Now add these wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients and mix together.
5. Add the strawberries and mix so that the strawberries are coated well with the batter.
6. Transfer the contents to a muffin pan with the help of a scoop.
7. Bake for 20 - 25 min in the middle rack of a 350 deg preheated oven.

Muffins right from the oven

Note

1. Do not overmix the batter. The muffins will become hard.
2. W/o strawberries, these become simple banana muffins.
3. The batter should be little thicker than the idli batter consistency.
4. Never fill the batter more than 3/4 of the cups in the muffin pan.
5. This recipe makes about 8 muffins.