Banana Tahini Muffins

These are fantastic!!

Such a an easy, delicious, high protein recipe!! It's great for breakfast, dessert, for a snack. I've made it 3 times this week. Thank you.

The black bean brownies were the start of a love story between me and legumes and I think we have come full circles with these muffins made with lentils and tahini - WOW. I cut them in half and slathered them with peanut butter and some seeds and went to town! I am gonna keep these on hand for when I have those late nate cravings or for when I want a dessert fo breakfast but with wholesome ingredients!

PUL Team - Feb. 2, 2025, 5:27 p.m.

Awww Nadin, what a sweet legume love story 🥰 From black bean brownies to lentil muffins, that’s a journey we can get behind! Enjoy your legume adventures ✨

Loved it ! I ate it hot and chocolate was melting ! Superb

These muffins are absolutely delicious! I swapped oat flour for wheat flour using a 1:1 ratio and mixed the batter by hand instead of using a food processor. The result? Perfectly fluffy muffins that you’d never guess contain lentils.

PUL Team - Jan. 5, 2025, 3:21 a.m.

Hey Maxine, so glad you enjoyed the muffins! The oat flour swap sounds like a great tweak. Thanks for sharing your variation 🤗

Absolutely amazing! 😍🔥

Super good 😋

Wow, I was a little sceptical at first, but this turned out soo good! Even my fussy toddler loved it. Yay!

Taste delicious. I’ve made these twice and each time they didn’t rise at all. Still moist and delicious, just very dense. Any suggestions?

PUL Team - Oct. 2, 2024, 8:27 p.m.

Hi Lauren, so happy you're enjoying the taste of the tahini banana muffins! If they aren't rising, it could be due to the baking powder. Make sure it's fresh, as older baking powder may not provide the rise needed. You could also try adding a touch more soy milk for a fluffier texture 🫶

Lauren Sikes - Oct. 7, 2024, 9:03 p.m.

Thanks!

Love these things!!!!

Great snack option for afternoon fika: easy to make, perfect level of sweetness and filling (the chocolate speak for itself😂). Perhaps a tad bitter background flavour owing to the dark chocolate and lentils, but I suppose that I will need to experiment with the type of chocolate used

These are delicious! Used green lentils instead of brown and they worked out great :)

Great protein bite for the morning. Our bananas were quite ripe and sweet so I could have left out the sugar.

Sweetness level was perfect. I cooked them for 30 minutes and it was still gooey in the center. Maybe the canned lentils weren't drained properly so there was more liquid. Or maybe the silicone liners prevented some heat conduction. 🍌🧁

PUL Team - June 19, 2024, 7:05 p.m.

Hi Nicole, thanks for sharing your experience with the muffins. Indeed excess liquid from the canned lentils might be the issue. If you're using silicone tins, you can try extending the baking time by 5-10 minutes and check for doneness with a toothpick 🥰

Amazing! I used a brownie pan and it turned out great. Let it bake for 20min. I left the extra sugar out and it was still sweet enough for me because of the bananas and chocolate.

PUL Team - June 6, 2024, 5:05 p.m.

Thanks for the tip, Julia!

Super delicious!
I made them in a brownie pan and baked them for the same amount of time (20mins). They turned out perfect.

Wowww!

Just wow! A healthy treat with sneaky protein, love it!

Made it as one large cake in the airfryer and it worked so well! My toddler also loved it.

PUL Team - April 14, 2024, 8:56 p.m.

Ooo thanks for the tip, Kris!

So yummy

Amazing! Added walnuts, it was lovely.

Delicious!

I was in such a hurry I forgot to add the chocolate at the end and they still turned out delicious.

PUL Team - Jan. 23, 2024, 10:40 p.m.

So glad they're being enjoyed, Bianca! In case it helps we've done the same thing before and ended up drizzling melting chocolate on top of the muffins 😅

Very tasty and simple to make. ❤️

I did a lot of substitutions and loved it

Northern beans instead of lentils
Almond flour instead of oat flour

These muffins are amazing 👏
That stays good in the fridge and freezer, I will 100% make them again.

PUL Team - Nov. 21, 2023, 6:07 p.m.

Woohoo! They’re one of our favourites as well. Thanks, Damilola 🥰

Incredible!!!

These taste amazing!

Love these

Made these mini sized and doubled the chocolate mini chips and they are perfect to freeze and use in kids lunches. Healthy and not safe for school.

Delicious recipe! Lentils are a great base. Target sells 90 second microwaveable black lentils that were perfect for this.

I was wondering if these can be made with other types of lentils instead of green ones? Thanks!

PUL Team - Oct. 1, 2023, 7:38 p.m.

Hey there, Maaike, the recipe calls for brown lentils, but one of our team members has made the muffins with green lentils rather than brown lentils and they turned out great. We haven't tried with red lentils, but wouldn't recommend it as red lentils can get quite mushy compared to brown or green lentils. We hope you love the muffins if you're able to give them a try 😊

Tereza Ruzickova - Nov. 11, 2023, 10:40 p.m.

I made them with green lentils and they were great 😊

Yum 😋 Strong banana flavor with a great breakfast vibe. I feel good feeding these to my kids for breakfast.

I baked them for 25 minutes, but Muffins still came out wet and dense, anything I should do next time to avoid it?
Taste wise they are yummy, will reduce sugar next time.

PUL Team - Sept. 1, 2023, 6:47 p.m.

Hey Rutuja! When the inside of muffins is wet it sometimes means they didn't have enough time to fully bake through. Every oven is different so it could help to turn down the temperature a tad and let the muffins cook for longer if the outside is well-done but the inside is still mushy. If the outside is also soft too though, it can help to increase the heat a touch. Ensuring the muffins are in the middle rack can also make sure the heat evenly hits the muffins if you don't have a convection oven. Hope this helps for now 😊

Anouk - March 2, 2024, 10:50 a.m.

Hi, had the same issue I made these the first time. Turns out the issue for me was the amount of banana. The bananas I have are big apparently, 3 bananas are way more than 1 cup of mashed banana. Today I measured the mashed banana, I only needed 2 bananas and the recipe turned out great!

So deceptively nutritious! I left out the chocolate. I subbed the coconut sugar for date sugar and added some ground flax for an extra bump in fiber. So yummy. I made a mini muffins and regular sized and both were perfect. Thank you!! Please share more recipes like this!

PUL Team - Aug. 26, 2023, 3:17 a.m.

Mini muffins sound so cute! Thank you, Amand - we'll note down the request 🫶

Hey it’s very difficult to get sesame seeds below $10 for a small bottle where I live and was wondering if I could sub for something different?

PUL Team - Aug. 20, 2023, 7:38 p.m.

Hey there, Honey, for sure any other nut or seed butter you enjoy should work just fine in place of the tahini 😊

I made a cake instead of separate muffins, because I only had that kind of baking form. Few minutes extra in the oven until toothpick comes out clean in the center. Worked out very well. Also added some more chocolate (personal preference), used less sugar and instead added 1 date. This is a miracle recipe! Never thought you could add lentils to a cake and actually loving it!

PUL Team - Aug. 14, 2023, 3:17 a.m.

So happy the recipe was enjoyed, Jenna, thanks for sharing all the modifications with us 😊

Delicioussss!! I made a quick glacing mixing tahini and honey and it complimented these delicious muffins sooo well!

This recipe turned out to be perfect for swapping out the added sugar for date powder! You can use a 1:1 ratio. But because date powder delivers a different kind of sweetness I always prefer 1:1,5 ratio.

PUL Team - July 22, 2023, 2:35 a.m.

Thanks a bunch for sharing your experience with the recipe, Sjoerd, it's so appreciated!

These muffins were a win for my family. Even my kids ate them! And I have a hard time finding “healthy” things that they’ll eat, so this was great (they couldn’t even tell that there were lentils in there)

PUL Team - July 14, 2023, 8:14 p.m.

Yayy so happy the kiddos enjoyed it, Samantha 😃

These are sooo good! You really can't taste the lentils. They're filling and delicious, thank you for yet another great recipe 🤗

Delicious! These are going to be a new go to in our house. My 3 year old loves them, and hidden protein from lentils and tahini? Win, win!

PUL Team - July 12, 2023, 7:24 a.m.

Woohoo! So thrilled to hear, Jessie 😊

Hi :) the recipe looks amazing. I wanted to ask if it’s possible to replace the lentils with tofu?
Thanks!

PUL Team - July 4, 2023, 4:21 a.m.

Hey Gal, we haven't tested it out with tofu but imagine it could change the muffins a fair bit. Do let us know if you experiment with it 🤗

Great recipe, they were delicious.
The ingredients don’t say baking soda, but it is included in the directions, I put about 2-3g and it seems ok

PUL Team - July 2, 2023, 3:29 a.m.

Hey Mirna, thanks for the heads up and our apologies for any confusion - the recipe only requires baking powder (no soda), but we're glad to hear the result turned out alright 😊 thanks so much for helping us improve what we do!

Is there a way to check total calories, carb, protein and fat content per recipie?

PUL Team - June 29, 2023, 10:16 p.m.

Hey Neha, yup! On the app you can view the nutrition by following this flow: click the recipe > click "info" on the right side > click "🧬 nutrients" beside the Nourish title > press and hold the circle to show it's calories. The macro and micronutrient information is also here 🤗

When I saw the main ingredient in the recipe I was very intrigued ! So I gave it a try and it turns out to be an amazing revisit of a banana bread, I absolutely love it

PUL Team - June 13, 2023, 5:01 a.m.

So happy to hear, Ana, thank you 🙂

Did this recipe today ! It us delicious. I had no lentils reafy but spelled, so tried with it and it turned out great.

Can I swap bananas for flaxseeds and add a sweetner? I don’t have bananas, but would really like to make them…

PUL Team - May 2, 2023, 1:55 a.m.

Hey there, Ajda, we can't say with certainty as we haven't tested it out. I wouldn't recommend it, as the bananas make up a large part of the recipe (3 bananas in total). If it were just one banana, I think a flaxseed swap would work, but I'm not so confident with this recipe. Might I recommend our Oatmeal blueberry muffin recipe instead? It doesn't use bananas, and yu can always add some chocolate to make it similar to this recipe 🤗

The recipe strikes me as so sophisticated, yet it came together with only pantry staples and a few overripe bananas. I froze the leftover muffins and have been eating them with peanut butter and jelly on top as a sweet and satisfying treat 😋

PUL Team - April 20, 2023, 6:48 p.m.

Mmm peanut butter and jelly is a lovely idea, Emily! Thanks so much 🤗

Great recipe! The muffins came out absolutely delicious!

Great recipe! The muffins came out absolutely delicious!