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    Home » Recipe » Quick Easy Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins

    Quick Easy Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins

    Published: Mar 1, 2020 · Modified: Dec 30, 2022 by Sabrina Currie · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    Fast And Easy Muffin Recipe

    Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins are a quick and easy way to use fresh blueberries (frozen blueberries will work too, just make sure to stir them in gently at the very end). This one bowl muffin recipe keeps well for a few days. These are similar to my Strawberry Rhubarb Muffin recipe but with ricotta and lemon to really make the blueberry flavour pop!

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    Healthy Easy Blueberry Oatmeal Muffin Recipe
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    Blueberry Oatmeal And Ricotta For Healthy Lunch Bag Treats

    Blueberry muffins with oatmeal and ricotta (or yogurt) are a wonderful healthy dessert, a tasty addition to your family's packed lunches or a tea time treat. These are full of protein, fiber and the antioxidants of blueberries. While great with fresh blueberries, these work equally well with frozen berries, just add the berries at the very end to prevent the color bleeding throughout the batter.

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    One Bowl Blueberry Yogurt Muffin Recipe

    Blueberries Are Easy To Grow Almost Everywhere, Even Canada!

    Below is a picture of one of my blueberry bushes last year. Did you know that as long as you choose your variety carefully, blueberries can be hardy to Zone 3 ?!?! That means that most areas of Canada except our Northwest Territories etc, can easily grow these delicious little berries. I have a few different varieties which stretches out our personal berry picking for over 2 months. We harvest a bowl at a time, enough to make a muffin recipe, dessert or just a little snack while outside. These are easy care and loved by kids, a top pick for your kitchen garden, space permitting. Bushes tend to be fairly compact, I have about 8 in a space about 3' x 7' and they seem quite happy. It is prime time for planting them now...just sayin'!

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    Freezing Blueberries

    I'm a big fan of seasonal eating. Fresh blueberries are best in blueberry season (late spring through to midsummer depending on location and varieties). But frozen blueberries are really great year round. Blueberries are one of the best and easiest foods to preserve through freezing. Just put fresh (dry) blueberries on a sheet pan, place in freezer until frozen and then transfer to a freezer bag or airtight container. These keep extraordinarily well and can be scooped out as you need.

    Enjoy the blueberries my Friends and if you are looking for some gorgeous and easy care linen napkins for lining your basket of muffins, we sell some awesome machine washable ones in our shop that we swear by!

    Cheers!

    Sabrina

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    One Bowl Blueberry Oatmeal Muffin Recipe

    Quick Easy Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins

    Made with fresh or frozen blueberries and a healthy dose of steel cut oats, eggs and ricotta or yogurt, these muffins taste like a sweet treat but are full of fiber, protein and vitamin C. A little zest and juice from a lemon really makes the flavour pop!
    5 from 6 votes
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    Course: Baking, Breakfast, Dessert, Muffin, Snack
    Cuisine: canadian
    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 25 minutes minutes
    Servings: 12 Muffins
    Author: Sabrina Currie

    Ingredients

    • 1 ¼ c Unbleached Flour
    • 1 c Steel Cut Oats
    • ½ c Sugar
    • 2 teaspoon Baking Powder
    • ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
    • ¼ teaspoon Table Salt
    • 2 Eggs
    • 1 c Ricotta Cheese (or Plain Greek Yogurt)
    • ¼ c Vegetable Oil
    • 2 teaspoon Vanilla
    • 1 c Blueberries
    • 1 teaspoon Zest from Lemon
    • 1 tbsp Lemon Juice

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 375'.
    • Stir all dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
    • In a 2 cup measuring cup, add the eggs and beat until lightly frothy (this should be approx. ½ c volume) then add the yogurt, oil, vanilla and lemon and stir until mixed.
    • Pour wet ingredients into the dry and stir just until well mixed together. Let this sit and soften the oats for 5 minutes.
    • Line a 12 cup muffin tin with liners. Stir blueberries into the batter gently and then spoon into the muffin cups. (If you are using frozen berries, you may want to sprinkle them directly into muffin tins between layers of batter so they don't bleed color through the batter) These will be quite full, that's ok. Put the muffins into the oven and bake 23-27 min (my batches take exactly 25 minutes).
    • The muffins will be lightly browned on some edges but not brown all over. Test with a toothpick, it should come out clean when muffins are done. Remove from oven and let sit 5 minutes before removing muffins from tins and place on cooling rack. Stored in a covered container once completely cool, these will keep easily for 3 days.
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    Comments

    1. Vanessa

      March 03, 2020 at 4:15 pm

      5 stars
      My kids love muffins for breakfast. These sound both delicious and healthy!

      Reply
      • SabCurrie

        March 16, 2020 at 9:22 am

        Thanks Vanessa! My kids love muffins too and I feel good about all the healthy ingredients in these ones. Have a great day 🙂

        Reply
    2. Katherine | Love In My Oven

      March 04, 2020 at 2:00 pm

      5 stars
      We're pretty tired of banana muffins around here, so these blueberry oatmeal muffins would sure be a welcome change!! They look so tasty!

      Reply
      • SabCurrie

        March 16, 2020 at 9:21 am

        Oooh I love a good banana muffin but always good to change it up! These are nice and healthy and so easy, I hope you enjoy 🙂

        Reply
    3. Trish

      March 07, 2020 at 8:06 am

      5 stars
      My favourite kind of muffi.n! Love that you’ve included oatmeal in this recipe.

      Reply
      • SabCurrie

        March 16, 2020 at 9:20 am

        Thanks Trish, and yes to the oatmeal. Makes these muffins stick with you and add a little dose of fiber! Cheers!

        Reply
    4. Terri

      March 08, 2020 at 6:39 pm

      5 stars
      Love that these are one bowl and can last days in the fridge! So wish I could grow blueberries, but we have about 6 gardening zones (and I'm in the worst one) and 2 good growing months in Calgary, where I'm still dodging snowfalls!

      Reply
      • SabCurrie

        March 16, 2020 at 9:19 am

        Yes, Calgary is a challenging growing environment for sure! Good thing blueberries are a perfect fruit for freezing. Have a great day Terri!

        Reply
    5. Melissa

      March 09, 2020 at 1:30 pm

      5 stars
      I do love a delicious blueberry muffin for an afternoon snack with tea or as part of my breakfast! Muffins made with yogurt are always so perfectly moist!

      Reply
      • SabCurrie

        March 16, 2020 at 9:18 am

        Thanks Melissa, I totally agree re the yogurt, keeps these so tender and moist. Have a great day!

        Reply
    6. Marianne Van Esch

      July 24, 2023 at 8:20 am

      Hi! I love your strawberry rhubarb muffins so much. They freeze well and pull them out for quick snack. I was wondering if they could be done as blueberry so came to check comments ... and saw this recipe. Curious though ... this one calls for 1 cups of fruit (bb) but the other calls for 2 cups (sb + rhubarb). Can you explain why? I like how fruity the Sb/R. Thank you!

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      • Sabrina Currie

        July 24, 2023 at 12:41 pm

        Hi Marianne, thanks so much for the kind comments! You can absolutely substitute blueberries for the strawberries and rhubarb in that muffin recipe. The reason the other recipe has less fruit is about the volume of the finished batter. If you have extra large muffin cups, you can add in another cup of fruit but for regular sized muffins, it may be to much.
        One more tip, if using frozen blueberries, quickly toss them with a bit of flour to lightly coat before stirring them into the batter. This will help reduce any juice bleeding out creating grey-blue patches in your muffins.
        Cheers!

        Reply

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