Jowar cake or muffins made only with Jowar flour without adding any other flour is the ultimate healthy treat for your loved ones.

This gluten-free Muffins recipe, made with Sorghum flour, an easy and healthy recipe as this is without refined sugar, oil and butter.

Just like my Ragi muffins, unless you disclose, nobody can say that these are made with millets.

 

 

Who wants to go back to refined flour or even wheat flour, when Sorghum muffins taste so good! It's such a healthy treat that it can be had by everyone. It is sweet but it is in such a healthy combination that at least a little bit of it can be had by everyone.

Once again I would say that if you want to bring the magic of millets in your lives too, then start with these millet muffins. I know, I have said it with most of my millet recipes, but seriously, these are my true feelings, nothing to do with blogging.

Till last month, there were very few recipes that I could make with millets, like Ragi Banana cake, Ragi Lavash Crackers, Ragi Chocolate muffins and some recipes with Barnyard millet and Pearl millet. That's it! And ask me today, I have tried so many recipes with millets and we are just loving it.

As I have mentioned many times earlier too that Sorghum or Jowar flour is closest to wheat flour not only in terms of colour but also in texture and taste to some extent. My husband has now switched over to Jowar chapatis only. I have made Jowar Masala Roti, Jowar Littis and they taste perfect.

So, when I thought of making muffins, it was Sorghum's turn, as I have baked Ragi muffins and cakes so many times, as well as Bajra cookies. Also, I knew the colour of Sorghum would be appealing, unlike Bajra and Ragi.

 

A little About Jowar (Sorghum)

Like all other millets, Sorghum is too packed with nutrients and minerals. But unlike other millets, Sorghum is closest to wheat in terms of taste and texture. It can be replaced for wheat in a much easier way than any other millet. This millet is called Jowar in Hindi, Sorghum in English and Cholam in Tamil and Malayalam. You can read more about this millet here.

 

Easy Recipe 

For making Jowar muffins I just didn't do any brainstorming. I simply followed my Basic Sponge Cake recipe swapping wheat flour by Jowar flour.

I went a step further in using jaggery this time. To ease the process, I mixed all the wet ingredients in the blender and simply mixed it into the dry ingredients.

Also, I forgot to add vanilla essence but trust me, it was not at all missed. Thus, I have not added it to the ingredients list below. So, easy it was!

And then baked some in the microwave convection and a few in the air fryer. Both were perfect.

And one important thing I would like to say that I used Jowar flour and not Whole Jowar. And use only Jowar flour for making these muffins. Unlike my other millet recipes, I will not say that use any millet of your choice. If you use any other millet flour then the taste, texture, colour everything will vary.

 

With Malai

Millets are very dry in texture so to moisten them up we need to add oil or butter. But as I had Malai in my chill tray, so just used it. And when malai is used then there is no need of oil or butter. You can use ghee or butter in place of malai.

 

Why You Will Love This Recipe

• Gluten-free
• Eggless
• Oil-free
• Butter-less
• No Refined Sugar
• No Condensed Milk
• Make in Air Fryer or Microwave Convection or Conventional Oven

 

 

Step By Step Recipe

• Line muffin liners in the muffin tray and keep it aside.
• Take Sorghum flour, milk powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and dried cherries in a bowl and mix everything.

• In a grinder, take curd, malai (milk cream), jaggery powder and milk and blend it for 10 to 15 seconds.

• Add wet mix into the dry mix.

• Start preheating microwave convection at 180 degrees. If using, conventional oven, then start preheating accordingly (basically, when you start making the muffins)
• Mix everything. The batter should be slightly thick. If too thick then add more milk.

• Add lemon juice or vinegar and mix everything.
• Fill the muffin liners with the batter up to 3/4th.

• Bake for 18 to 20 minutes.
• Check by inserting the toothpick, though, aroma and cracks on the muffins speak themselves that they are ready.
• Keep the muffins on a wire rack till cools down.

• Serve with love, cold coffee optional.

 

Q) Can I bake a Jowar cake using this recipe?

•  Yes, you can bake a Jowar cake too with the same recipe.
• Preheat your oven at 180 degrees
• Put the batter in a 6'' cake pan, round or any other shape, and bake for 30 minutes in a preheated oven. .

 

Q) How to bake these muffins in Air Fryer?

• Preheat Airfryer at 180 degrees for 5 minutes.
• Keep the muffin moulds in the air fryer basket and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

 

Q) How to bake these muffins in a conventional oven (OTG)?

• Preheat oven at 180 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
• Use the Bake mode.
• Start preheating the oven when you start preparing the batter.
• Keep the baking tray in the middle rack and bake for 16 to 18 minutes or till the skewer inserted comes out clean.

 

Q) How to bake in a pressure cooker?

• Preheat the pressure cooker for 10 minutes.
• Keep the muffin moulds on the stand/rack in the cooker.
• For complete details regarding baking in a pressure cooker, click here.

 

Related Recipes:

• Jowar Litti Chokha
• Ragi Muffins
• Breakfast Muffins With Oats

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