Pomegranate-ginger Muffins

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup crystallized ginger, minced (check out crystallized ginger for how to make your own!)
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon zest
• 1 1/4 cups pomegranate seeds
• 1 cup milk
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1/4 cup butter, margarine,melted or 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• sugar, for topping

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 425f.
• 2 grease 12 muffin tins.
• 3 mix dry ingredients (sugar, flour, baking powder, salt) in a large bowl.
• 4 mix wet ingredients (milk, egg, oil/butter, lemon zest) in a medium bowl.
• 5 make a"well" in your dry ingredients and pour in your wet ingredients until just mixed.
• 6 overmixing will make your muffins tough.
• 7 you may want to undermix it a bit and finish your mixing with the next step when you add the pomegranate/ginger.
• 8 fold in pomegranate seeds and ginger.
• 9 spoon into greased muffin tins.
• 10 sprinkle tops with sugar, which will caramelize in the oven and make a lovely sugary top.
• 11 bake for 10-15 minutes until puffed and golden and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
• 12 let cool for 5-10 minutes in the tin, then remove and cool on a cookie rack, or serve.
• 13 you may use mini-muffin tins or jumbo muffin tins, but the cook time will vary.
• 14 muffins tend to need to be watched carefully, regardless.
• 15 another possibility might be to mix some powdered ginger (a small amount, it is strong) with your sugar topping.