Low FOD-MAP banana muffins

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Low FOD-MAP banana muffins

A low FOD-MAP diet has worked wonders on my irregular digestive system. To celebrate being off imodium after a month of daily use, I thought I'd share a recipe that has been a staple of my diet as I've been working on letting my gut heal --- banana rice-flour muffins.

Ingredients:

4 very ripe bananas
4 eggs
1 tablespoon of baking powder
0.75 teaspoons of salt
2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons sugar
1-2/3 cups rice flour (brown or white --- I use half of each to keep the fiber at a gut-friendly level)

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and butter a 12-muffin tin. (You can bake these in a loaf pan like banana bread, but the texture is much better in muffin tins.)

Discard the skins and mash the banana flesh, then add the eggs and beat until somewhat fluffy. This is the most important step for making tasty muffins --- too fluffy and the flour won't incorporate properly; not fluffy enough and the muffins turn into rocks.

Cheese on muffins Add everything else and mix well. Then fill each muffin well to the brim and bake until the tops are slightly brown and a knife comes out clean.

I enjoy these plain, but more often I eat them sliced in two and microwaved with a piece of cheddar cheese on each half. Very mildly sweet and relatively wholesome, these little morsels make my grumpy gut decidedly more friendly.