I wanted to make a post because last night I was searching for information about using oat fiber in recipes and getting nothing useful to my specific needs. Everything I found was for super-low-carb dieting, but I just wanted to make my "regular" (gluten free) muffins a little lower calorie.
I've been craving muffins but also trying to lose weight. Since I have celiac disease and GF flours tend to be more caloric than the wheat counterparts, and since GF baking is just a little tricky in general, I was looking for a way to lower the calories a little in a muffin recipe. I saw a bag of oat fiber in the back of my flour drawer, from a low-carb dieting stint, and decided to try to swap in some of that.
I used the recipe for Lemon Blueberry Muffins from Sally's Baking Addiction, which I really like and is my base muffin recipe; I just swap an all-purpose GF flour for the wheat flour. I use 5tbsp of avocado oil instead of 6 tbsp butter, out of just laziness; swapped the 3tbsp milk for water; used nonfat greek yogurt. Then I made them as 6-ct jumbo muffins rather than the 12-ct called for.
Last night I used Bob's Red Mill 1-to-1 Baking Flour as my base flour. This recipe calls for 1-3/4c flour and I swapped 1/2c of the flour for 1/2c oat fiber, and used 150g greek yogurt (rather than the 120g called for) plus 2 tbsp more water, since the batter seemed dry. I popped them in the oven and nervously waited for the results.
I got perfectly domed, tender and moist muffins, perfectly golden brown on top. I ate a whole jumbo muffin and had no tummy troubles, which was the major warning I found regarding oat fiber. The changes I made dropped the calorie count of 1 jumbo muffin from over 400 to 361, and if my calculations are right 1 jumbo muffin has ~20% of your daily fiber. Plus ~5g protein. Not perfect nutrition, but better for a treat with zero affect on taste. If anything this batch is more tender and moist than the non-oat fiber ones I've made before, and tastes exactly like a good version of a non-gluten-free muffin.
by Bulky_Ad9019