Spinach & Cheese Savoury Muffins 

Recipe: Spinach & Cheese Savoury Muffins 

Indulge in the irresistible flavours of Oryx Desert Salt’s lightly spiced recipes. Whether you’re hosting a gathering, packing a lunchbox, or enjoying a family dinner, this delectable treat will leave you reaching for seconds… and thirds!

Spinach & Cheese Savoury Muffins

INGREDIENTS: 

  • 2 ½ cups flour (325g)
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 ½ tsp Oryx BBQ Salt
  • ½ cup cheddar, grated (50-60g)
  • 2 eggs
  • ¼ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
  • ½ cup plain or Greek yoghurt
  • 1 cup oat milk
  • ½ cup feta, crumbled into chunks (100g)
  • 2 cups lightly pressed, chopped spinach, or spinach & kale combo (100g)
  • ¼ – 1/3 cup Pumpkin seeds for sprinkling (optional)

DIRECTIONS:

  1. In a large mixing bowl, stir the flour, baking powder, salt and BBQ salt together.
  2. Add cheddar and stir to evenly distribute.
  3. In a small mixing bowl, whisk eggs, olive oil, yoghurt, and oat milk.
  4. Pour into dry mixture and stir until just combined; beware of over-mixing.
  5. Fold feta and spinach in.
  6. Divide between 12 muffin cups.
  7. Bake at 200 C (392 F) for 5 minutes, and then 180 C (356 F) for 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

TIPS: Make the batter the day before and chill overnight covered in a damp tea towel.

Spinach & Cheese Savoury Muffins 

Oryx Desert Salt is a naturally organic, crystal-white gourmet salt—sun-dried, imbued with minerals, and untouched by refinement, pollution, or additives. Sourced from a replenishing underground salt lake in the pristine Kalahari Desert of Southern Africa, it embodies sustainability and purity.