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Paleo Butternut Squash Muffins

Shirley Braden

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Goodness, folks, here we are at the next to the last day of March Muffin Madness (MMM) recipes. It’s all gone by so fast but here’s today’s marvelous recipe, Paleo Butternut Squash Muffins. As this recipe is paleo, that also means that it’s a gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free recipe. Today’s recipe also includes a unique ingredient, a type of flour, which might be new to you.

Paleo Butternut Squash Muffins. "These sweet Paleo Butternut Squash muffins make a deliciously nutritious breakfast or snack." One of 20 gluten-free muffin recipes featured on gfe for March Muffin Madness.

So you’ll want to read on to learn more about these muffins and the paleo ingredients used in them and check out today’s daily prizes (there are a bunch!). See the whole lineup of bloggers, blogs, and muffin recipes here.

Fearless Dining   

My friend Sandi of Fearless Dining is the creator of these beautiful Paleo Butternut Squash Muffins. She creates lovely, delicious recipes and she’s a prolific recipe creator! So much so that she also started another blog, Grandma’s Recipes Made Gluten Free, several months back. She says that her “new blog is more of a side project to bring my family’s recipes to those who need to be gluten free.” If it’s “old school” recipes that Grandma made that you’re looking for, check that out. If newer more innovative recipes, like today’s muffins, appeal to you, check out her original site.

By the way, I initially found Sandi’s Fearless Dining blog several years ago via her database of restaurant reviews for the San Francisco Bay area. I can never resist a good restaurant review, even if it’s been a few years since I’ve been to the Bay area (and will probably be a few more before I make it back). Sandi has visited and reviewed over 650 restaurants, documenting their practices for handling gluten-free customers. If you’re in that area or planning to visit and need to know about safe gluten-free dining options (as well as places to steer clear of), definitely check out the wealth of information she has there!

More Gluten-Free Muffin Recipes (and More) from Fearless Dining That You Should Check Out

~ Cheddar Herb Muffins (featured in the last MMM event)

~ Easy Paleo Healthy Strawberry Muffins

~ Paleo Breakfast Muffins

~ 7-Layer/Magic Bars: (Caramel Magic Bars, Gingerbread 7-Layer Bars, Peppermint 7-Layer Bars, Pumpkin 7-Layer/ Magic Bars, and Valentine’s 7-Layer Bars)

~ Edible Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

~ Orange Almond Flour Cake

Paleo Butternut Squash Muffins Recipe

Sandi says: “I have been experimenting a lot with tigernut flour and other paleo flours because we are trying to take more grains out of our diet. These sweet Paleo Butternut Squash muffins make a deliciously nutritious breakfast or snack.”

Paleo Butternut Squash Muffins. "These sweet Paleo Butternut Squash muffins make a deliciously nutritious breakfast or snack." One of 20 gluten-free muffin recipes featured on gfe for March Muffin Madness.

Sandi added that her daughter liked these super healthy muffins. Score! We all need family approval for our recipes, right? Especially when we’re making changes that up the “health quotient” of our recipes.

Paleo Butternut Squash Muffins. "These sweet Paleo Butternut Squash muffins make a deliciously nutritious breakfast or snack." One of 20 gluten-free muffin recipes featured on gfe for March Muffin Madness.

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Paleo Butternut Squash Muffins

Author Sandi Gaertner of Fearless Dining

Sandi says: “I have been experimenting a lot with tigernut flour and other paleo flours because we are trying to take more grains out of our diet. These sweet Paleo Butternut Squash muffins make a deliciously nutritious breakfast or snack.”

Ingredients

Batter Ingredients

  • 1 cup pureed butternut squash (I use canned organic because it is super smooth and creamy, not lumpy)
  • 1/3 cup walnut oil or avocado oil
  • 1/3 So Delicious coconut milk beverage
  • 1/2 cup coconut sugar
  • 1/2 cup tigernut flour
  • 1/2 cup arrowroot powder/flour
  • 1 cup almond flour
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt

Topping Ingredient (Optional)

  • 1/3 cup unsweetened shredded coconut

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F degrees.

Add wet ingredients to a bowl and mix well.

Add the dry ingredients to a bowl and whisk to blend.

Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix gently. Don't overmix these too much or your muffins won't be light and fluffy.

Sprinkle coconut on top, if desired.

Notes

Makes 12 muffins.

Reminder: Don't overmix these too much or your muffins won't be light and fluffy. 

Shirley's note: The folks at Tigernuts USA say that tigernut flour can be substituted for regular flour and gluten-free all-purpose flour mix one for one so if you don't have tigernut flour, you can most likely substitute gluten-free all-purpose flour mix for the tigernut flour in this recipe for an equally delicious non-paleo version.

Today’s Giveaway

Update:  All the giveaways are now closed. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to all who participated!

~ Cookbooks:

Down South Paleo: Delectable Southern Recipes Adapted for Gluten-free, Paleo Eaters by Jennifer Robins (2 winners, co-sponsored by Jennifer Robins and gfe)

Down South Paleo: Delectable Southern Recipes Adapted for Gluten-free, Paleo Eaters

Jennifer Robins (Predominantly Paleo) is one of the most creative paleo recipe creators ever. She really did write a whole bestselling book of recipes re-creating Southern classics to be paleo. They’re exactly the recipes you’d expect, too—or Jennifer’s version, which is always much better! Some of the recipes include:  Mama’s Fried Chicken (shown on cover below), Southern Fried Chicken and Waffles, Corned Beef Hash with Brown Gravy, Paleo Pecan Waffles, Lump Crab Hushpuppies, Lemon Pepper Fried Okra, Rodeo Funnel Cakes, Chicken Fried Steak, Soulful Collard Greens, and Deep South Fried Pickles. (Incidentally, you can find the giveaway for Jennifer’s other three cookbooks—just in case, you missed them—here and here.)

The Everyday Ketogenic Kitchen: With More than 150 Inspirational Low-Carb, High-Fat Recipes to Maximize Your Health by Carolyn Ketchum (2 winners, co-sponsored by Victory Belt Publishing and gfe)

As promised, here’s Carolyn Ketchum’s (All Day I Dream About Food) first bestselling cookbook (Carolyn’s newest cookbook, Easy Keto Meals, was part of yesterday’s daily giveaway.) Carolyn is another person who adopted low-carb, keto eating for therapeutic healing—specifically, a diabetes diagnosis. Initially, it was gestational diabetes, which disappeared and then reappeared and “stuck around,” as Carolyn says. Carolyn is a little different from some low-carb, keto followers in that although she makes fabulous main dishes, salads, and sides, she also excels at incredible desserts that work for this way of living. Maybe that’s why this cookbook gets all 5-star reviews on Amazon and raves that use words like “masterpiece”!

Keto Comfort Foods: Family Favorite Recipes Made Low-Carb and Healthy by Maria Emmerich (3 winners, co-sponsored by Victory Belt Publishing and gfe)

No matter what diet/healthy lifestyle we’re following, we will always want comfort foods. Whatever comfort foods that come to mind, you’ll find a recipe for them in Maria Emmerich’s (Keto Adapted) highly praised book. I was drawn to a recipe that’s a new take on a classic, Tiramisu Muffins. I’m sure that doesn’t surprise any of you who are following March Muffin Madness!

Use Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature to peek inside all these fantastic cookbooks!

~ Baking/Cooking Ingredient:

Tigernut Flour, 1 lb (1 winner, sponsored by gfe) (Note: Brand name may vary depending upon availability at time of prize award.)

Despite what you’d think by the name, Tigernut flour (also called Tiger Nut Flour and Tiger Nuts flour) is a grain-free, nut-free flour. It’s made from what are called tiger nuts, which are actually tubers (tiny tubers, unlike other tubers, such as potatoes) that are full of slightly sweet, nutty-tasting fiber.

 

Grand Prize Giveaway

See all 10 prizes here. Shown are the top six prizes (per monetary value—they’re all tops in my opinion). Again, this giveaway is open to everyone, everywhere!

March Muffin Madness Grand Prize Giveaway Photo

 

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Filed Under: March Muffin Madness, MuffinsTagged With: butternut squash recipes, paleo recipes, tiger nut flour recipes29 Comments

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Comments

  1. Denise M says

    April 9, 2018 at 3:20 pm

    I would love the everyday ketogenic cookbook or the keto comfort foods. I personally am not a huge butternut squash fan but i love that i could get my kids to eat it with these muffins

    Reply
  2. Kristen says

    April 9, 2018 at 8:12 pm

    Down South Paleo looks delish!

    Reply
  3. Tom H. says

    April 9, 2018 at 8:33 pm

    Interesting way to use butternut squash! Thanks for the extra entry in the Blendtec giveaway, as well.

    Reply
  4. Cheryl k says

    April 9, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    They all look great but I’d pick the Down South Paleo recipe book since everything is gluten free in it.

    Reply
  5. Kathryn says

    April 9, 2018 at 10:35 pm

    Tigernut flour is new to me – this recipe looks really different and good. You’ve picked another great one Shirley!

    Reply
  6. Tomoe says

    April 10, 2018 at 12:36 am

    Wow. I’m interested in tigernut flour now. Hope I can easily access to this amazing ingredient. All cookbooks look great to me.

    Reply
  7. Colleen M says

    April 10, 2018 at 1:03 am

    Would love to have the opportunity to be a winner of the cookbooks or the flour. I have never tried Tigernut flour. I am intrigued by this new flour. The butternut squash muffins sounds delish!

    Reply
  8. Charlotte Moore says

    April 10, 2018 at 7:24 am

    Would love to win the Everyday Ketogenic Cookbook.

    Thanks for the chance to win.

    Reply
  9. Lauren says

    April 10, 2018 at 7:24 am

    I’ve never heard of Tigernut Flour so I guess I’d love to try that!

    Reply
  10. Dandi D says

    April 10, 2018 at 7:35 am

    I am intrigued and would love to try the tigernut flour!

    Reply
  11. Tanya says

    April 10, 2018 at 7:39 am

    Tigernut flour or the everyday ketogenic kitchen would be wonderful…they all look great. Going to try this one, too!

    Reply
  12. [email protected] A-Z Blog says

    April 10, 2018 at 7:43 am

    Shirley,
    Tigernut flour is totally new to me. Being gluten free, this really excites me to find another healthy ingredient to use for baking- and now I have a recipe to try as well. The Butternut squash recipe sounds delicious!

    Reply
  13. Lisa says

    April 10, 2018 at 8:05 am

    Either of the Ketogenic cookbooks, please!

    Reply
  14. Tessa Simpson says

    April 10, 2018 at 8:38 am

    Keto cookbooks, tigernut flour!!! LOVE!! Sandi’s muffin sound SO good!!

    Reply
  15. Danabee says

    April 10, 2018 at 8:53 am

    Keto Comfort Foods or the Tigernut flour (??!!) both look great to me!

    Reply
  16. Brianna Wolin says

    April 10, 2018 at 10:15 am

    Keto comfort food sounds interesting!

    Reply
  17. Kristen says

    April 10, 2018 at 10:48 am

    I’ve never used this flour before! I’m excited to try it! I would love to win any of the items! Thank you!

    Reply
  18. Stephanie Lewis says

    April 10, 2018 at 12:40 pm

    I’ve never used Tiger Nut Flour but have always wanted to try!

    Reply
  19. Suzanne R says

    April 10, 2018 at 12:48 pm

    I have some butternut squash puree in the freezer now & I’d love to win the tigernut flour so that I can make these.

    Reply
  20. patricia says

    April 10, 2018 at 4:15 pm

    I would just love to have Carolyn’s cookbook, The Everyday Ketogenic Kitchen. It is a wish book of mine!
    Will have to try these muffins as I already have the tigernut flour

    Reply
  21. angela cole says

    April 10, 2018 at 5:44 pm

    I would love to win the cookbook and have even more healthy and gluten free recipes to try!

    Reply
  22. Beverly Maiers says

    April 10, 2018 at 5:48 pm

    I actually have some tigernut flour but it’s almost gone, so I would love to win that! This recipe looks really good. I think I can figure out how to substitute the almond flour and xanthum gum and I’ll be all set, it will be AIP compliant!

    Reply
  23. JAnis S says

    April 11, 2018 at 2:38 am

    Interesting recipe. At first I thought the squash was weird but pumpkin is a squash too andcwe use it in all kinds of foods!

    Reply
  24. Sharon says

    April 11, 2018 at 7:27 am

    The muffins look so good! I’d love to try the Tigernut Flour!

    Reply
  25. Kylie Sandover says

    April 11, 2018 at 8:12 am

    They look great Sandi! 🙂
    I haven’t tried tigernut flour before, it would be fun experimenting with it. The cookbook also looks great too.

    Reply
  26. Tamara Oliveiro says

    April 11, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    I always wondered if there was a way to use a butternut squash that would be tasty. This would probably do it.

    Reply
  27. Georgina says

    April 11, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    Keto comfort foods book looks like a great deal to me!

    Reply
  28. Nancy says

    April 11, 2018 at 8:22 pm

    I’ve never tried cooking with tigernut flour before, sounds like something I need to check out.
    Great selection of prizes,

    Reply
  29. April J Harris says

    April 12, 2018 at 3:44 am

    What an amazing event March Muffin Madness is! I particularly like this recipe as butternut squash is a real favourite of mine. Sandi is such a wonderful cook, and as you know, Shirley, she is a lovely person too. I often meet up with her on our frequent trips to California.Like your wonderful blog, Gluten Free Easily, Fearless Dining and Grandma’s Recipes Made Gluten Free are resources I always recommend to people who are gluten free, and especially to those who have just been diagnosed with celiac disease. Thank you for sharing this post at the Hearth and Soul Link Party. I’ve just shared it on the H&S Facebook page. Hope you are having a wonderful week!

    Reply

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