These Muffins with olives, peppers, and Montasio are perfect for an appetizer, aperitif, or even a different snack. Few simple ingredients, no rising needed, and 20 minutes in the oven to have these savory vegetable muffins ready.
If you want to organize a buffet, they will be perfect accompanied by cold cuts and cheeses, cut in half and filled, you’ll see they’ll be a hit.
If you have other vegetables in the fridge, you can add them easily, always paying attention to the cooking times of the various vegetables that will obviously finish cooking in the oven.
Below, I leave you other ideas for savory vegetable muffins, and then we’ll go immediately under the photo to discover how to prepare these Muffins with olives, peppers, and Montasio!
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very economical
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 12 Pieces
- Cooking methods: Stovetop, Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 144.83 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 14.44 (g) of which sugars 1.06 (g)
- Proteins 4.58 (g)
- Fat 8.11 (g) of which saturated 1.14 (g)of which unsaturated 5.20 (g)
- Fibers 0.72 (g)
- Sodium 145.90 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 59 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients
With these amounts, you will get 12 savory vegetable muffins
- 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 packet instant yeast for savory preparations
- 2 eggs (large)
- 0.5 cups milk
- 4 tbsp sunflower seed oil
- 2 tbsp chopped parsley
- Half red bell pepper
- Half yellow bell pepper
- 2 tbsp green olives (pitted)
- 1.75 oz Montasio (aged)
- 2 pinches salt
Tools
- 1 Muffin pan
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Cutting board
How to prepare Muffins with Olives, Peppers, and Montasio
To prepare savory muffins with vegetables, first cut the peppers into strips and then into small cubes.
Cook in a pan with a whole garlic clove (which you will remove after cooking) with a little extra virgin olive oil for 8/10 minutes.
Grate the Montasio (or other aged cheese) with a coarse grater.
In a bowl, beat the eggs with a fork, add the milk and seed oil, then the grated cheese and the chopped parsley.
Preheat the oven to 350°F in static mode or 340°F if using a fan setting, butter, and flour 6 muffin molds.
Add the yeast and flour to the bowl and mix with a fork to combine.
Salt, and if desired, add a little ground black pepper, then add the cooked vegetables previously and the green olives cut into rings.
Fill the muffin molds with the mixture up to 3/4 of their capacity.
Place in the center rack of the oven and bake the savory muffins with vegetables for .
Remove from the oven, take out of molds, and let them cool before tasting.
Storage, Tips, and Variants for Muffins with Olives, Peppers, and Montasio
The muffins with olives, peppers, and Montasio can be stored outside the fridge in an airtight container for 2 days.
If you like, you can replace part of the peppers with a zucchini or half a carrot and half a zucchini.
If you have them at home, use Taggiasca olives instead of green ones.
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