Spinach Protein Muffins – Healthy, Easy, Perfect

Easy and healthy Spinach Protein Muffins for a nutritious breakfast or post workout treat. These green smoothie muffins recipe uses protein powder, Greek yogurt and applesauce, and has no oil or butter!

Ingredients for these Spinach Protein Muffins

These spinach protein muffins are made with nutritious ingredients like whole wheat flour, protein powder and non-fat greek yogurt, and has no oil and no butter. 

• Fresh Spinach – I recommend fresh baby spinach here, not frozen
• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour 
• Unflavored Protein Powder to replace some of the flour (and carbs) in the recipe for a slightly lower carb high protein churro muffin. I used a whey-caesin blend from Quest Nutrition.
• Vanilla Protein Powder; This is the source of protein and sweetness in the protein powder churro muffin since there’s no added sugar in this recipe. Quest again here.
• Coconut Flour
• Stevia Sweetener
• Unsweetened Applesauce
• Non-fat Greek Yogurt a high protein low fat churro muffin.
• Almond Milk
• Eggs
• Vanilla Extract
• Cinnamon
• Baking Powder

And the Chocolate topping for Spinach Muffins

• White Chocolate Chips or Chopped Chocolate. I would recommend Lily’s to keep it sugar free.

Tips for this Protein Powder Spinach Muffins Recipe

This spinach muffin recipe with protein powder is really easy to make, but here’s some pointers to get it right.

• Grease the muffin pan cavities (and liners if using) if they aren’t silicon.
  This will allow the protein powder muffins to come off easily.

• Use room temperature applesauce, milk and yogurt;
  This is so the wet ingredients and dry ingredients can mix well.

• Blend spinach and wet ingredients in blender till smooth; You don’t want chunks of spinach leaves in the batter.

• Don’t over-mix the batter!
  Make sure you gently fold the dry mix into the wet to combine them.
  If you over-mix it, the protein powder will make the spinach muffins, dense and gummy.

• Taste the batter and see if you need some extra sweetener. I’d recommend using stevia powder to maintain the consistency of the batter and have sugar free spinach muffin recipe.

• Make sure batter is thick, and not too pourable.

Alternatives for Healthy Spinach Muffins

For the perfect low fat but moist healthy spinach muffins, I would highly suggest using the ingredients and brands I recommended; I do have some alternatives you can try though.
I haven’t testing them all, so I can’t say how your muffins might turn out.

• Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: Use All purpose flour or 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour (for a gluten free protein pumpkin muffin), with the same amount by weight not cups.
• Unflavored Protein Powder: More flour, but also reduce the milk to about 3 Tbsp.
• Greek Yogurt: Coconut Yogurt
• Almond Milk: Any other milk 

Here’s some Protein Powder Muffin Recipes to try:

• Protein Monkey Bread Muffins
• Chocolate Stuffed Churro Protein Muffins
• Single Serve Chocolate Protein Muffin
• Chocolate Banana Protein Muffins in a Blender
• Oreo Protein Muffins
• Pancake Mix Protein Muffins
• Keto Chocolate Protein Muffins with Coconut Flour

Spinach Protein Muffins

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Prep Time3 minutes mins

Cook Time23 minutes mins

Total Time26 minutes mins

Servings: 12 muffins

Calories: 98kcal

Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Post-Workout

Cuisine: American

Easy and healthy Spinach Protein Muffins for a nutritious breakfast or post workout treat. These green smoothie muffins recipe uses protein powder, Greek yogurt and applesauce, and has no oil or butter!

Ingredients

• 4 cups Fresh Spinach, 120g
• ½ cup Non-fat Greek Yogurt, about 112g, Room temperature
• ⅓ cup Unsweetened Almond Milk, 80ml
• 2 Eggs, Room Temperature
• 1 cup Unsweetened Applesauce, 240g
• 2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 1 cup Whole Wheat Pastry Flour, 120g
• ½ cup Vanilla Protein Powder, 45g, Whey-caesin
• ⅓ cup Unflavored Protein Powder, 30g, Whey-caesin, see notes for sub
• 2 tablespoon Coconut Flour, 14g
• Stevia Sweetener, 2 tablespoon sugar worth (Use your brand’s Conversion Chart)
• 1½ teaspoon Cinnamon
• 2½ teaspoon Baking Powder

Topping:

• 1 tablespoon White Chocolate Chips, 14g, Sugar-free recommended below

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350°F, line 12 cups of a muffin pan with cupcake liners, and lightly spray insides with cooking spray (or use non-stick pan).
• In a blender, combine spinach, yogurt, milk and eggs.

  Blend until smooth
• Transfer to a large bowl, add applesauce and vanilla, and whisk.
• In another bowl, whisk whole wheat pastry flour, vanilla protein powder, unflavored protein powder, stevia sweetener, cinnamon and baking powder.
• Add dry mix to wet, and gently fold until combined. DO NOT OVER-MIX or protein powder and gluten will from wheat flour will make the muffins dense.
• Divide batter among muffin cups.
• Bake for 23-25 minutes.

  A toothpick inserted should come out dry.

  Top with white chocolate chips.
• Cool for 5 minutes, then remove from pan.

Notes

• Nutrition details are calculated using products recommended below.
• See post for alternate ingredients, tips and storage options.

Product Recommendations:

• Quest Nutrition Multi-purpose Mix Protein Powder
• Quest Nutrition Vanilla Milkshake Protein Powder

Nutrition:

• Servings: 12 muffins | Serving size: 1 (without chocolate chips)
• Calories: 98kcal
• Fat: 1.3g | Saturated fat: 0.4g
• Carbohydrates: 12.2g | Fiber: 2.9g | Sugar: 2.8g
• Protein: 9g