Pizza Muffins

Craving something savory but simple to make?  Why not making pizza but in form of muffin:)

The great thing about this recipe, you can be creative about the ingredients of your pizza muffin.  How about the flavor of your favorite pizza? You can use ingredients that available at your kitchen. 

Lovely texture

So lets started!

Pizza Muffins
(Serve: 12 muffins)

Ingredients:

• Dry ingredients:

200 gr all-purpose flour 

2 ½ tsp baking powder 

½ tsp baking soda 

½ tsp salt
¼ tsp ground black pepper
125 gr cheese (I use Mozzarella (another type cheese like cheddar and emmentaler would be fine as well)

*My favorite pizza flavor : * 100 gr sausage (I use salami)
                                       *  50 gr red pepper
                                       *  4 pcs dried tomatoes
                                       *  2 pcs pepperoni (if you want it to be hot)
                                       *  1 tbsp black olive
                                       *  2 tbsp chopped parsley 
                                       *  1 tsp Italian herbs mix (rosemary, thyme, oregano, basil, etc)
*other ingredients that can be added : sweet corn, mushroom, canned tuna, etc.

• Wet ingredients:

1 medium egg
100 ml vegetable oil 
200 ml milk
2-3 cloves of garlic, minced 


Method:

1.  Preheat oven to 180°C then place the oven rack  in the lower 3rd or in the middle of   

     the oven.  Grease muffin tin with butter or use muffin case. 

2.  Prepare 2 large bowls.

•  First bowl for dry ingredients: mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ground black pepper and cheese. Afterwards add your favorite pizza ingredients and stir until well combined. Then set aside. 
• Second bowl for wet ingredients: whisk vegetable oil, milk, egg and minced garlic until properly combined.  

3.   Pour wet ingredient mix into dry ingredients.

4.  With spatula, fold (lightly stirring up) the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.   
     Don’t over stir the batter otherwise your muffin texture will be hard. Stop stirring 
     when you no longer see dry flour or flour pockets.   

5.  Pour the batter into your muffin tin. Fill each cup about 3/4th full. 

6.  Bake muffins for about 20-25 minutes. Baking time will vary. If they start to turn  

     brown, insert  a skewer in the center of the muffins to check if they are done. If the    

     skewer comes out clean, your muffins are done. 

7.  Allow the muffins to cool for about 10 minutes then remove muffins from pan. 
     *You can easily take out the muffin case paper, when it is  cold.

You will get this texture if you fold the batter in the right way

You can enjoy your pizza muffin with chilli sauce :)

In my opinion, this muffin is tastier when it is cold.