Easy and healthy Spinach Protein Muffins for a nutritious breakfast or post workout treat. These green smoothie muffins recipe uses protein powder, Greek yogurt and applesauce, and has no oil or butter!

Ingredients for these Spinach Protein Muffins

These spinach protein muffins are made with nutritious ingredients like whole wheat flour, protein powder and non-fat greek yogurt, and has no oil and no butter.

Fresh Spinach – I recommend fresh baby spinach here, not frozen
Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
Unflavored Protein Powder to replace some of the flour (and carbs) in the recipe for a slightly lower carb high protein churro muffin. I used a whey-caesin blend from Quest Nutrition.
Vanilla Protein Powder; This is the source of protein and sweetness in the protein powder churro muffin since there’s no added sugar in this recipe. Quest again here.
Coconut Flour
Stevia Sweetener
Unsweetened Applesauce
Non-fat Greek Yogurt a high protein low fat churro muffin.
Almond Milk
Eggs
Vanilla Extract
Cinnamon
Baking Powder

And the Chocolate topping for Spinach Muffins

White Chocolate Chips or Chopped Chocolate. I would recommend Lily’s to keep it sugar free.

Tips for this Protein Powder Spinach Muffins Recipe

This spinach muffin recipe with protein powder is really easy to make, but here’s some pointers to get it right.

Grease the muffin pan cavities (and liners if using) if they aren’t silicon.
This will allow the protein powder muffins to come off easily.

Use room temperature applesauce, milk and yogurt;
This is so the wet ingredients and dry ingredients can mix well.

Blend spinach and wet ingredients in blender till smooth; You don’t want chunks of spinach leaves in the batter.

Don’t over-mix the batter!
Make sure you gently fold the dry mix into the wet to combine them.
If you over-mix it, the protein powder will make the spinach muffins, dense and gummy.

Taste the batter and see if you need some extra sweetener. I’d recommend using stevia powder to maintain the consistency of the batter and have sugar free spinach muffin recipe.

Make sure batter is thick, and not too pourable.

Alternatives for Healthy Spinach Muffins

For the perfect low fat but moist healthy spinach muffins, I would highly suggest using the ingredients and brands I recommended; I do have some alternatives you can try though.
I haven’t testing them all, so I can’t say how your muffins might turn out.

Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: Use All purpose flour or 1:1 Gluten Free Baking Flour (for a gluten free protein pumpkin muffin), with the same amount by weight not cups.
Unflavored Protein Powder: More flour, but also reduce the milk to about 3 Tbsp.
Greek Yogurt: Coconut Yogurt
Almond Milk: Any other milk

Here’s some Protein Powder Muffin Recipes to try: