Mango Coconut Oat Muffins
Megan Gordon

 

Mango Coconut Oat Muffins

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Mornings are meant for muffins. They're portable and easy to throw together, and they can incorporate the season's fruit beautifully. Such is the case with these vanilla-flecked, oat and coconut-strewn, mango-laden beauties.

There are other reasons to love these muffins. First, you can mix them by hand, and there will be very few dishes (always a good thing). Second, they rely on an excellent fat for cooking and baking: coconut oil. Last, they have a slight heartiness from the oats, a nice sweetness from the mango and coconut, and a speckled fragrant crumb from the vanilla bean. They really are the best of many worlds baked into one pretty spring muffin.

I used Ataulfo mangoes for this recipe. If you're not familiar with Ataulfo mangoes, they're sometimes called Manila mangoes and are one of the sweetest varieties, with a smooth, creamy flesh and a super small, thin pit. You can tell when your mango is ripe when it turns from green to golden yellow and when it gives a little after you gently squeeze it. You know those stringy fibers that make mangoes tough to cut and unpleasant to eat? Ataulfo mangoes are known to have very few of those.

When you're laying out your ingredients for these muffins, make sure your sour cream and egg are at room temperature; if they're too cold, you run the risk of re-solidifying the coconut oil. That isn't really the end of the world, but it necessitates more vigorous stirring. Also, if you don't have oat flour, feel free to substitute whole wheat flour or all-purpose flour if you'd prefer.

It may seem fussy to call for two kinds of coconut -- and there's nothing I hate more than a recipe that should be simple but turns out fussy -- but there's a good reason in this case. I like the wide-flake coconut in the batter of these muffins, and I don't think they need the added sweetness from sweetened, shredded coconut. But I also love the thin threads of sweetness on top. Feel free to use one -- whichever you prefer -- or take my lead and experiment with both.

Mango Coconut Oat Muffins

Makes 10 large muffins.

1/2 cup virgin coconut oil

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

3/4 cup oat flour

1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

1/2 cup unsweetened wide-flake coconut

1 cup full fat sour cream, room temperature

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1 large egg, room temperature

1 teaspoon lemon zest

1 vanilla bean, split

1 cup diced mango (from 2 Ataulfo mangoes)

1/4 cup sweetened shredded coconut, for top

Preheat oven to 375 F. Grease 10 muffin cups with butter.

In a small saucepan, warm coconut oil just until it just barely melts. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, whisk together both flours, oats, baking powder and salt. Stir in 1/2 cup of the unsweetened coconut.

In a separate medium bowl, whisk together sour cream, sugar, egg, lemon zest and liquified coconut oil. Scrape the insides of the vanilla bean into the mixture and whisk well. Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Add diced mango and gently fold until combined.

Divide batter among prepared muffin cups then sprinkle the tops with 1/4 cup of the sweetened coconut, about 1 teaspoon on each. Bake until a toothpick or tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 23-25 minutes.

Transfer muffins to a rack and let cool. If covered at room temperature, muffins will be good for 2-3 days.

Note: These muffins don't have the classic poufy "muffin top" shape when baked, owing to the higher moisture content and the heft of the oats and oat flour. They are still guaranteed to be a hit with your brunch companions.

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