Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins

These healthy blueberry oatmeal muffins are magic: whiz up rolled oats, bananas, and blueberries in a blender. They’re easy and irresistible!

Here’s a next level muffin recipe that’s a serious go-to: blueberry oatmeal muffins! Now, these oatmeal muffins aren’t just made with some oats. They’re all oats! That is, there’s no all purpose flour at all. You’ll use a blender to whiz rolled oats, bananas and maple syrup into a healthy, wholesome muffin batter. Best of all? They are so, so tasty. Alex and I serve them often to our 2 year old Larson for breakfast or lunch: it’s basically like eating oatmeal with a banana and blueberries! Here are the secrets to this deliciously healthy muffin.

The trick to these oatmeal muffins: the blender!

Many oatmeal muffins recipes have a handful of oats along with the traditional formula of all purpose flour and sugar. But these blueberry oatmeal muffins are 100% oats! How is that possible?

You can actually grind down rolled oats into a sort of flour: in a blender! These are blender muffins: muffins where the batter is made entirely in the blender. You throw all the ingredients into a blender and blend. Magically, out comes a texture that is fluffy and moist, like a standard muffin but without the flour and sugar.

Ingredients in blueberry oatmeal muffins

These blueberry oatmeal muffins are made from wholesome, whole food ingredients! Don’t expect a bakery style muffin that’s more like a cupcake. Instead, these are sweet and tasty but loaded the good stuff.

• Rolled oats
• Ripe bananas
• Blueberries
• Eggs
• Neutral oil
• Maple syrup
• Spices, baking powder, and baking soda

Just whiz these ingredients in a blender and pour it into muffin cups. Then bake for 30 minutes. They come out so fluffy and tasty, no one will believe that they’re made of all oats!

Nutrition benefits of oats

There are so many great things about eating these blueberry oatmeal muffins! Since they are made mostly of oats, they bring all the benefits of eating a big bowl of oatmeal! Alex and I eat lots of oatmeal in our household, so we love a trick turns it into something that looks like a muffin but has all the benefits of oatmeal. According to the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, oats:

• Are high in fiber
• Can reduce the risk of heart disease
• Can be helpful for weight control

How to ripen bananas

The hardest part about planning to make these blueberry oatmeal muffins recipe is finding ripe bananas! It can take many days to ripen bananas, depending on their ripeness when you buy them. Here’s how to ripen bananas in just a few days:

• Place the bananas in a paper bag and fold down the top.
• Add another piece of ripe fruit (or a ripe banana) in the bag. This increases the ethylene gas that causes the fruit to ripen.

And that’s it: how to make blueberry oatmeal muffins! Let us know if you try them out: and what you think in the comments below.

More oatmeal recipes

You could call us oatmeal obsessed over here! We eat it almost every day for lunch or breakfast. Now, there are a myriad of ways to eat oatmeal: in a bowl, or even as muffins or pancakes. Here are some of our favorite oatmeal recipes:

• Basic Oatmeal: This Best Oatmeal is the recipe we make every day. Or try Vegan Oatmeal.
• Instant Oatmeal: Try Instant Oatmeal: genius for a quick healthy breakfast: it’s cheaper, healthier, and tastier than store bought packets!
• Steel Cut Oatmeal: Try Steel Cut Oats or Pressure Cooker Steel Cut Oats for a big bowl, or Carrot Cake Baked Steel Cut Oatmeal for a special brunch.
• Oatmeal Pancakes: These Banana Oatmeal Pancakes are made with 100% oats, the same idea as these muffins!
• Oatmeal Muffins: We’ve got more flavors of oatmeal muffins! Try Apple Oatmeal Muffins, Apple Zucchini Oatmeal Muffins, Banana Bread Muffins (the original!), and Applesauce Muffins.

This blueberry oatmeal muffins recipe is…

Vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar free, and naturally sweet.

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More blueberry recipes

Blueberries make everything better! Here are a few more recipes starring this beautifully sweet fruit:

• Lemon Blueberry Pancakes These lemon blueberry pancakes are light and fluffy, with just the right citrus zing and sweet bursts of berries! Serve with blueberry compote.
• Best Blueberry Smoothie or Blueberry Banana Smoothie This smooth purple puree is full of healthy ingredients and tastes like heaven.
• Best Blueberry Waffles These fluffy blueberry waffles are about to become everyone’s favorite! Topped with a quick blueberry sauce, they’re brunch perfection on a plate.
• “Magic” Blueberry Cobbler As it bakes, the blueberries sink to the bottom and the batter forms a golden crust on top.

Last updated: August 2020