Unexpectedly good Blueberry Sausage Protein Muffins loaded with flavor and nutrition, and has no oil, butter or sugar! Healthy breakfast sausage and blueberry muffins use protein powder for sweetness and are a great mix of sweet and savory.

I don’t where the blueberry and sausage combination came from, but it was a VERY good one. Very unexpectedly good!

A very clean recipe here though.

Ingredients for Blueberry Sausage Protein Muffins:

This recipe for blueberry sausage protein muffins is as healthy as it gets – no oil or butter, no sugar, no buttermilk, but instead Applesauce, Greek Yogurt and Protein powder!

Here’s what you need to make a batch of this good stuff:

Whole Wheat Pastry Flour for a healthy, nutritious and whole grain muffin recipe.
Vanilla Protein Powder as a replacement for the sugar – this is what makes this a sugar-free protein muffin recipe; I use Quest Vanilla protein powder
Unflavored Protein Powder to replace some of the flour (and carbs) in the recipe for a slightly lower carb high protein brownie. I used Quest Nutriton Multi-purpose here.
Unsweetened Applesauce to replace most of the fat in the normal recipes, and also add some more apple flavor.
Non-fat Greek Yogurt to add even more protein and keep these low fat
Almond Milk for some moisture
Also makes this a dairy free muffin recipe. Feel fee to use any other non dairy or normal milk
Eggs
Stevia Sweetener
Baking Soda and Baking Powder – you need them both for that perfect rise!
Cinnamon

And then for the mix-ins

Fresh Blueberries
Fully Cooked Breakfast Sausages – I’d recommend breakfast chicken sausages

Things to keep in mind for these Blueberry and Sausage Muffins with Protein Powder

This recipe for blueberry sausage protein powder muffins really is quite easy, but here’s some tips to get them perfectly light and fluffy.

Use unsweetened applesauce so there’s no added sugars in the recipe

Don’t over-mix the batter!
Pour the dry mix into the dry and just fold them together or too much gluten will develop, again giving you dense and gummy muffins. The protein powder could also cause toughness.

Don’t skip out on the almond milk or the yogurt
They add a fair bit of moisture to the muffins since there’s no oil here, also the protein powder in the muffins needs extra moisture.

Toss blueberries in extra flour so they don’t stick to the bottom of the muffins when baking.

Spray the insides of the muffin pan with oil spray so the muffins come off easily.

How to get that rise?

This is the trick to get these blueberry sausage protein puffins to have that extra rise like those bakery style apple muffins!

All credit here goes to Sally’s Baking Addiction.

For 5 minutes, bake the muffins at 425.
Then lower the heat to and continue to bake for another 18 minutes (the total time should be about 22 minutes).

Why?

That initial hot air makes the tops rise, and then the lower temperature lets the muffins continue to cook on the inside.

Can you store Savory Breakfast Muffins?

With such a low calorie and reduced fat recipe, these savory breakfast muffins with blueberries and sausage are completely to okay to indulge in; I myself had nearly 2 at a time!

You can keep the whole wheat breakfast sausage muffins out at room temperature on the countertop for 2 or 3 days, or in the fridge for or 4 or 5 days. Be sure to use an airtight container.

To freeze the healthy blueberry sausage muffins, wrap them plastic wrap, and place in a freezer-safe zipper bag. They’ll last for 2 or 3 months. Thaw them when you want fall spiced apple dessert at Thanksgiving!

Some alternatives for these Healthy Blueberry Sausage Muffins:

I made these healthy blueberry sausage mufffins with the whole wheat pastry flour and protein powder as described, but here’s some other clean ingredients to try:

Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: All purpose flour or 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour, in the same amount by weight not cups.
Unflavored Protein Powder: 45g more Flour, but also reduce yogurt to ½ cup (112g)
Greek Yogurt: Coconut Yogurt
Almond Milk: Any other milk
Stevia Sweetener: Monkfruit sweetener (I use the one from Lakanto; Code HAYLSKITCHEN gives you a discount here) or regular sugar

Some more Protein Muffin Recipes to try:

And some more high protein Blueberry baking recipes: