Pizza Muffins – Easy Finger Food Appetizer For A Party Or Dinner!

These super healthy and insanely easy Pizza Muffins are the ideal go-to snack, finger food delectable appetizer for parties, or even a filling breakfast or dinner, made only with 9 simple main ingredients, requiring only 10 minutes of your time for preparation! No need for complicated steps and hard-to-find ingredients, but luckily the ones you probably already have in your kitchen!

These super nutritious Pizza Muffins are the perfect indulging appetizer or dinner for a busy weeknight, especially when you’re highly overwhelmed by the hustle and bustle of everyday life, and desperately crave something healthy and yet quick and easy!

Also, they are ideal for gatherings, last-minute snacks, or just those times when you’re craving pizza but want something a little different.

These pizza muffins are loaded with cheese, mushrooms, and veggies you can additionally add. A tasty recipe for pizza bits that’s ideal as a light supper, appetizer, or post-school snack! Kids simply adore them!

Pizza muffins are a fun take on the classic pizza, with all of its flavors neatly packed into muffin-sized portions. Don’t you think that these little, pizza bits in place of the large expanse of dough, sauce, and toppings are a much quicker, easier, and more interesting option? If you ask me, definitely!

You may savor the delicious flavors of pizza at other times besides pizza night! All the delicious qualities of a traditional pizza are condensed into these simple pizza muffins, making them incredibly tasty little treats everyone loves! There’s always something magical about discovering new versions of muffins since I’m obsessed with them!

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Why You’ll Love This Recipe?

• It only takes 5 minutes of preparation time + SO EASY – This recipe will only take 15 minutes of your time for preparation with an insanely simple few steps – preparing the mushrooms, and mixing all ingredients together, and putting them into the muffin baking pan. That’s the whole philosophy! Simple and practical, right?

• You only need 9 simple main ingredients with minimal measurements – This Pizza Muffins recipe only calls for a handful of everyday ingredients, you probably already have in your kitchen, so there’s probably no need to run to your nearest farmer’s market or store to get them – you’ll only need eggs, yogurt, oil, flour, mushrooms, cottage cheese, salt, oregano and baking powder.

• Super soft on the inside – With a wonderfully golden outside and an abundant cheese and mushrooms-filled middle, these Pizza Muffins cooked in a muffin tin method have a soft inside and crispy outside!

• Super healthy and flavorful – Cheese, mushrooms, yogurt, and some veggies like carrots, spinach, and tomatoes you can add make these muffins super nutrient-rich and flavorful!

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Ingredients You Need

These Pizza Muffins can be made in many versions and each has its own spark and flavorness. You can omit some of the ingredients and use only the necessary ones, but on the other hand, you can load them with many veggies and make them a veggie bomb!

If you want to make it the non-vegetarian version, you can add some meat, like hum.

Flour – For this recipe, I used semi-whole-wheat flour, and haven’t tried with other types, so I can’t give you the guarantee that just any type of flour would work like semi-whole, sorry ;/

Eggs – You will need 2 eggs.

Mushrooms –  Almost any kind of mushroom will work. I combined shitake and brown mushrooms (also known as gourmet, cremini/crimini, or chestnut mushrooms) in this variation. However, medium-sized portobello mushrooms can also be used.

Yogurt –

Cooking/Baking Safe Oil – There are different plant-based oils you can use based on your preference and what you have at hand, but also should be careful about what kind of oil you’re using and what quality. I personally tried mine with sunflower and olive oil. Here you can find what are some of the healthy cooking oils.

Cheese – You will need cottage cheese, but I also think that goat cheese or cream cheese would also work well, however, I haven’t tried it.

Salt – Preferably not using table salt, but sea salt or Himalayan salt.

Dried oregano – You can also switch it for some other seasoning, like dried thyme, or other herbs and spices you prefer.

Baking powder

Carrots, spinach, zucchini, tomatoes (optional)

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Ideas And Alternatives

• Use ham instead of mushrooms – I wanted to make this a veggies-rich pizza muffins version and vegetarian, but I didn’t use ham even if many recipes call for it. However, you can switch it and use hum instead.

• Add other veggies – To make these Pizza Muffins even more interesting, vibrant, and appealing, you can add some additional veggies like grated carrots, spinach, zucchini, or tomatoes.

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How To Make

The whole process of making the Pizza Muffins is insanely easy you won’t believe it!

Step 1: If you are using mushrooms as one of the dry key ingredients, the first step is to sauté them a bit. If you are using ham, skip this step.

Prepare 300-400 grams of mushrooms. Wash the mushrooms, and dice them to the desired size to prepare them for cooking.

Heat the olive oil (or other preferred cooking oil) in a large pan on medium heat, and add the sliced mushrooms. Cook the mushrooms until they let their water out and it evaporates, stirring constantly.

Step 2: Whisk 2 eggs and season with salt. Add all the other ingredients and mix it all together until well combined.

Step 3: Add the mixture to the muffin pan and bake for approximately 25 minutes at 180 ° C (356 °F)

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