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Vegan Anti-Aging Goji Berry Muffins
By Rachel Venokur-Clark, Green Options
Going Meatless on Mondays doesn’t have to mean deprivation of all your favorite foods. By making some simple changes to recipes, you can easily swap out the animal products for vegan options. Here is a simple veganized muffin recipe, so you can start your Meatless Monday off with delicious, healthy, energizing and decadent baked good.
Tibetan Goji Berries are regarded in Tibet as the “Fruit of Longevity and Well Being.” Goji berries have been traditionally regarded as a food that offers your body longevity, strength-building, and sexual potency. Gojis are a complete protein source and a low calorie snack that strengthens your immune system, increases energy and helps to curb cravings. It has one of the highest antioxidant contents in all food, which helps to fight free radicals, keeping you young and vibrant. Gojis contain 18 amino acids, vitamin C, beta-carotene, 20 rare trace minerals, vitamin B1, B2 and B6 and vitamin E.
In honor of this Meatless Monday, let’s boost our energy, keep ourselves looking and feeling young and chow down on some delicious vegan, anti-aging muffins.
Goji Orange Muffins
Prep Time: 15 min
Cook Time: 22 min
Yields: 12 muffins
1 3/4 cups Whole Wheat Flour
1/4 cup Sucanat or other natural dry sweetener
1 tablespoon Ener-G egg replacer (found at most health food stores)
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon Sea Salt
1/2 cup Almonds-chopped
1/3 cup Safflower Oil
1 cup Goji Berries
1 1/4 cup Soy, Almond or Rice Milk
Zest of 1/2 an Orange
1) Pre-heat oven to 375 and prepare muffin tins with liners.
2) In a large bowl, combine the flour, sucanat, egg replacer, baking powder and salt.
3) In a medium bowl, whisk together the oil and milk.
4) Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until barely combined.
5) Gently stir in the gojis, almonds and orange zest.
6) Divide batter evenly into the prepared muffin tins.
7) Bake for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the muffin comes out clean.
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add your comment »Like Kevin, I have planted goji berries also. Remember, we have relatives of them in the U.S. Research, research research. Me, I think gojis ROCK!!! BUT you do have to find the good ones, know the company you're buying them from. I've have the best and the worst. The best were maybe a dollar more than the worst. The main thing I'm saying here also is grow your own. If it provides you with seeds and is not cooked/irradiated, it will provide you with more food!!!! It's just that simple. And there is nothing more satisfying as enjoying something you have grown, both watching it grow, then provide you with nourishment, THEN more seeds to grow more! Wow, what a circle of life!
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Hi Jay..I too am from Michigan! Anyway, does anyone know what I can substitute for the egg-replacer in this recipe? Have tried Ener-G and find it gives baked goods a funny "off" taste. I'll also be substituting dried cherries or cranberries. Thanks! p.s. bought some blueberries yesterday and they were very bitter..must be end of season.
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If the photo that you posted is that of goji berries, we also have them in Japan, and they taste ..... so tart! They're quite awful!
I totally agree with Carol H., why buy exotic produce that have a large environmental footprint ? Is not this site about Saving the Planet and promoting eating and living habits that are more environmentally friendly ? Read Gandhi, he condemned the consumption of imported foods. Everything you consume should be produced locally.
To carry on living so mindlessly is a crime against future humanity, against all the children who will inherit this dump because you wanted to live your selfish, self indulgent American dream!
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I've had goji berries before.... ick.
I'll stick to blueberry muffins :)
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I am looking forward to making this recipe. By the way, I planted some goji berries in ericacious compost and some in ordinary compost - not sure that it makes a lot of difference but a single berry makes up to 20 plants. It might well be worth trying to grow them yourselves and see what happens.
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We have aronia berries where I live that are supposed to be very high in antioxidants. They are quite sour though.
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I agree with Carol H. While I'm sure Goji berries are great-we like them on cereal, I doubt they are the perfect food as claimed. It's cranberry season here in the states-let's support our own super foods!!
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This is a perfect recipe with the Almond milk. Yum! You have made me very hungry this morning. Thank you so much for taking the time to post it. xo
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I think that this is a great recipe for people who have easy access to Goji berries. However, I'm sure that cranberries would work just as well and would go beautifully with the orange zest. Or Michigan cherries... Yes, I live in Michigan and am dreadfully biased!
Smiles,
Jay
P.S. Goji berries really are supposed to be good for you. I take the 'miles' point though and agree that we should buy local as much as possible. However, for me, that would mean doing without my heritage food so I 'break the rules' quite a lot. Otherwise no Indian spices and that would make Jay a very sad girl.
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I question the nutrition claims on exotic, expensive berries. They say that if it sounds too good to be true, it is. Many articles on specialty products like this are actually planted by the people who import and sell them at very high prices. I hear claims, but not the scientific studies cited. Goji berries are $11 lb on the first site I checked. Goji are from far away, too. Acai berries are the leader in worst claims/costs. ($40 for a bottle of juice). I think the superfood movement is very naive about this. I'd rather you found recipes for the many foods that are in our local grocery stores that are just as nutritious. Local/sustainable...why is that forgotten for these crazy claims?
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