This Carrot Okara Muffin is the Part 3 of the Soy Series:
1. First make your Homemade Soy Milk
2. With the leftover soybean pulp (okara), and turn into Seaweed Okara Cakes (that taste like fish cakes)
3. If you don’t like fish cakes, you have to try this moist Carrot Okara Muffin. Okara makes a very good egg substitute for muffins and cakes.
I first tried the Chocolate Banana Muffin recipe from Okara Mountain blog (who could resist Chocolate Banana?). Those muffins did not rise as usual muffins, and they look like ‘stunted’ muffins. But don’t let the looks deceive you! Because these turn out to be most moist fluffy muffin I’ve ever eaten.
A few weeks later, I purposely made some soymilk to get the okara to make the muffins! This time I tried a different recipe – Carrot Okara Muffin and filled the batter full to the brim of the paper liner. These muffins were gone in no time! Not only these muffins are packed with protein goodness, your children will not know there’s carrot in them! Perfect for a school day breakfast.
And don’t forget to try the Chocolate Banana Muffin recipe too!
- ½ cup Soy Milk
- 1 cup Wet Okara (soybean pulp leftover from making soymilk)
- ⅓ cup Canola Oil
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- ½ cup Homemade Yogurt
- 1½ cup Carrots – grated
- 1½ cup Flour
- ¼ cup Corn Flour
- 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon Ginger Powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ¼ cup Brown Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ cup Chopped Walnuts
- ½ cup Raisins
- Preheat your oven to 375°F / 175°C. Fill your muffin tray with 12 paper liners or generously grease and flour your tins.
- Combine wet ingredients in a medium bowl. Sift dry ingredients in a larger mixing bowl.
- Pour wet ingredients, walnuts and raisins into dry ingredients, mixing until just combined. DO NOT OVER MIX.
- Spoon the batter into the liners until almost full. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until lightly brown or until the toothpick test comes out clean. Depending on the wetness of your okara, the baking times might be slightly different.
- Cool for 10 minutes, take muffins out of tins and place on wire racks to cool completely. If you use paper liners, you must cool the muffins completely or the muffins will stick to the liner.



More Okara Baking Recipes:
- Jam Cake with Okara (withaglass.com)
- Tomato Basil Okara Bread (okaramountain.blogspot.com)


Pingback: Working with okara « 365 Days Off
July 8, 2012 at 3:59 PM
FYI: I’m hoping this is just a temporary glitch, but right now none of your recipes are showing up after the reader clicks the link to read more. The full text disappears and only comments are visible.
July 8, 2012 at 7:16 PM
Thanks for alerting me! The problem is now fixed.
June 15, 2012 at 8:13 PM
Hi! Thank you for these great recipes. One question: I guess when you talk about oven degrees, do you express them in the Fahrenheit scale, not Celsius, but can you confirm it? I am a very unexperienced cook, as you can see…
June 15, 2012 at 11:17 PM
Hi Yolanda, thanks for being so observant and informing me. I have added the word Fahrenheit in the temperature and 350°F = 176°C. My recipes are in °F because my oven does not state °C.. I was also inexperienced one year ago, never baked before that.. The more you try/practice, you will pick it up very fast.
June 18, 2012 at 6:27 PM
Thank you!
Pingback: O COMME OKARA (1) | Antigone XXI
February 11, 2012 at 2:22 AM
Okara is so good for you and I rather want to eat muffin than typical Japanese okara recipe. This looks and sounds great Shannon!
Nami | Just One Cookbook recently posted..Chocolate Covered Strawberries
February 11, 2012 at 5:07 PM
Nami, now you got me curious. what’s a typical japanese okara recipe?
February 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM
I was planning to start my diet as of tomorrow, but I guess I need to postpone it. This muffin looks too tasty to resist, so I will be a bit busy in the kitchen
Best,
Michael
Michael recently posted..Black Mold Removal Products
February 6, 2012 at 2:19 AM
I also make sometimes soy milk and I absolutely adore okara, but until now I have been baking only one type of cake. These muffins sound like an excellent, healthy idea! Thanks for sharing.
Sissi recently posted..Chicken in Lemon Sauce
February 7, 2012 at 11:48 PM
You are most welcome. Hope you enjoy these muffins next time you make soy milk!
February 6, 2012 at 12:24 AM
This sound like a very tasty and interesting recipe! Great looking muffins!
February 6, 2012 at 12:50 AM
thank you! yes it’s a very interesting muffin recipe, and very tasty too!