Vegan Pistachio Muffins (8 Ingredients!)
These delicious Vegan Pistachio Muffins are gluten-free and oil-free and so easy to make. Ground up pistachios give wonderful flavor, moisture and color to these muffins and a lovely texture. Only 1 bowl and 8 ingredients needed!
Servings: 12 muffins
Ingredients
- 168 grams raw, unsalted pistachios OR 1 1/2 cups (168g) ground pistachio flour, make sure to use correct weight
- 1/2 cup (80g) potato starch, this cannot be subbed with another starch, I use this one (it is what makes them fluffy)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- scant 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 2 tablespoons (30g) unsweetened plant-based milk (I used almond)
- 6 tablespoons (120g) pure maple syrup
- 6 tablespoons (90g) unsweetened applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup (120g) dairy-free semi-sweet chocolate chips
NOTE
- Always use a scale for accuracy when baking, following MY gram weights listed. You never need cups, just the scale and bowl and make sure to zero out in between each ingredient.
- I use this scale.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a muffin pan with 9 parchment paper liners. This will prevent the muffins from sticking.
- Add the pistachios to a food processor and process until a flour forms, being careful not to process it into a nut butter. It's okay if there are a few tiny pieces of nuts, but try to get it as fine as possible.
- To a large bowl, add the processed pistachios, the potato starch, baking powder, and salt and whisk until mixed.
- Add the milk, syrup, applesauce, vanilla, and chocolate chips and stir with a spoon until mixed and moist. It will seem too dry at first, but gently mix until all the batter is moist. If you weighed everything to my gram weights it should be a perfectly moist batter.
- This batter is so delicious, I wanted to just eat it and not bake the muffins, so warning at how good it is!
- Divide the batter into the 9 liners, which means you will be filling up each liner about half full.
- Bake the muffins for 20 minutes or until risen and a toothpick comes out clean from the center of a muffin.
- Cool the muffins 15 minutes to allow them to finish cooking before eating.