Breakfast Strata Pear Muffins
This dish is a cross between a regular fruit-studded muffin and bread pudding. The egg custard makes it especially moist and the fruit provides most of the sweetness, hence there is very little added sugar.
Makes
Serving size
Ingredients
1 cup whole-milk yogurt
2 medium (132 grams) ripe red or black plums, pitted and quartered
¼ cup light brown sugar unpacked
½ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
Pinch of sea salt
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
10-ounces French or ciabatta bread, torn into 1 ½ -inch pieces
2 tablespoons raisins
1 medium (178 grams) pear, very ripe, diced
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Special Equipment:
12 muffin cups (metal tin or silicone)
Blender or food processor
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Spray metal/silicone muffin cups with cooking spray or line with paper muffin cups.
- Combine yogurt, plums, sugar, ginger, nutmeg, salt and eggs in the bowl of a blender or food processor. Blend or process until smooth.
- Place bread in a large mixing bowl. Add liquid from blender, along with raisins and pears.
- Stir to moisten bread and let rest for 5 minutes.
- Divide mixture evenly among 12 prepared muffin cups. Press down the top of each one with the back of a wooden spoon to remove any air pockets.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until firm and tops are golden.
- Cool for 10 minutes.
- Lift out carefully with a knife, loosening the muffins.
- Place muffins on a serving dish.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve warm.
Cooking Tip
If you want to make the batter a day ahead and then bake the morning you want to serve them, you can crisp up the bread by placing torn bread on a baking tin and baking in a 250°F oven until they just begin to brown. Then place bread in the bowl and follow from step 4 on.
Recipe Contributed by FamilyCook Productions
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