Makes 2 large muffins / 1 serving
Ingredients
For the muffins
- ½ cup cottage cheese
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup Greek yogurt
- ⅓ cup oat flour
- ¼ cup fresh blueberries
- Zest of ½ lemon
- 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp vanilla
- Pinch sea salt
- 1 tbsp of sweetener of choice, either honey or maple syrup
To finish
- 1 Lemon Ginger Turmeric Beauty f(x) Bite, crumbled
- 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds, roughly chopped
- Extra Greek yogurt, if needed to reach the final 30 g protein target
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F / 175°C.
- Blend the cottage cheese, egg, Greek yogurt, lemon juice and vanilla until smooth.
- In a bowl, combine oat flour, baking powder, ginger, lemon zest and sea salt.
- Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until just combined.
- Gently fold in the blueberries.
- Divide between two large lined muffin cups.
- Bake for approximately 18–22 minutes, or until the centers are set. Allow to cool.
- Top the muffins with a little Greek yogurt and crumble the Lemon Ginger Turmeric Beauty Bite over the top.
- Finish with chopped pumpkin seeds and a little additional lemon zest.
Why it’s good for hair health:
Cottage cheese + Greek yogurt + egg: Create the protein foundation of the recipe. Adequate dietary protein is important because insufficient protein intake is a recognized nutritional contributor to hair loss.
Blueberries + lemon: Both contribute vitamin C. Vitamin C is relevant nutritionally because it assists intestinal iron absorption.
Pumpkin seeds: Bring iron and zinc into the recipe, giving us a useful whole-food complement to the protein-rich ingredients. Deficiencies in iron and zinc have been associated with some forms of hair loss, although evidence around supplementation in people without deficiencies is much less clear.
Beauty f(x): Lemon Ginger Turmeric is crumbled over the finished muffins, so you get the flavor and functional ingredients without baking the Bite itself.