Parsnip And Bacon Muffins

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 300 g self raising flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon mustard powder
• 250 g parsnips, peeled and grated
• 8 fluid ounces milk
• 4 tablespoons sunflower oil
• 1 egg
• 125 g streaky bacon, de-rinded and snipped
• salt and black pepper

Recipe

• 1 set oven to gas 7/425f/220°c.
• 2 sift the flour, baking powder and mustard powder into a bowl.
• 3 add the parsnips, milk, oil, egg and half the bacon.
• 4 season well.
• 5 beat until blended but do not overbeat.
• 6 spoon into muffin cases and sprinkle the rest of the bacon on top.
• 7 bake just above the centre of the oven for 20 minutes or until well risen.
• 8 cool in the tin for 2 minutes and then on a wire rack.
• 9 serve warm and buttered or cool and freeze and eat within 2 months.