Mediterranean Savory Muffins

Mediterranean Savory Muffins are tender, savory, full with zaatar spice, and melty chunks of mozzarella cheese throughout.

Savory Muffins:

If you’re looking for a flavorful upgrade to ordinary brunch muffins, try these Mediterranean Savory Muffins. Infused with zaatar spice and stuffed with cheese chunks, each bite is as aromatic as it is delectable.

I love recipes with zaatar, here are a few on the blog: Zaatar Manakish, Baked Pita Chips with Zaatar, Zaatar Swirl Bread, & Labneh Flatbread.

Ingredients in Mediterranean Savory Muffins With Zaatar:

• Dry Ingredients: I love to use a combination of all purpose flour and wheat flour in baking when I can. These savory muffins also need a very small amount of sugar, along with zaatar spice, baking powder and a pinch salt.
• Wet Ingredients: An egg, vegetable oil, a drop of white vinegar, Greek yogurt and milk combine to make the best Mediterranean Muffins. Use full fat ingredients for the best texture and flavor.
• Cheese: You’ll need to use low moisture mozzarella cheese, not the fresh mozzarella that comes in water. I like to cut mine into chunks and place them in middle of each muffin, to get gooey pockets of cheese in each bite.
• Olives: You can also add 1 pitted olive in each muffin, if available.

Today’s zaatar muffin batter comes together in just 5–10 minutes with simple kitchen tools including a couple bowls, a whisk, and a muffin pan.

How to Make Savory Muffins

• Prep: Start by preheating your oven to 350 F and lining a muffin tin pan with paper liners and grease generously with cooking spray. Alternatively, you can grease the muffin tin directly with cooking spray.
• Wet batter: In a medium sized bowl, add the egg, white vinegar, milk, Greek yogurt, oil, and sugar to your mixing bowl and whisk them together until well combined.
• Dry mixture: In a separate medium sized bowl, sift together all purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, zaatar spice and salt. Whisk well until combined.
• Mix dry and wet ingredients: Add dry mixture to the wet batter. Stir the batter together until just combined without overmixing.

• Prep the Cheese: Cut the cheese into 1/2-inch cube chunks and set aside. You’ll need 12 cubes.
• Assemble the muffins: Fill each muffin liner cup with about 2 tablespoons of muffin batter. Add 1 cheese cube (and an olive if using) to each muffin.

• Top the muffins evenly with the remaining batter, about ¾ way full.

• Bake: Bake for about 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Tips Variations on Mediterranean Savory Muffins

• Cheese: There are plenty of different kinds of cheese you can use for the zaatar muffins cheese. I used mozzarella cheese, but you can also use cheddar cheese, muenster, parmesan, or Colby cheese.
• Gluten-free: If you’re looking for in gluten-free savory muffin recipe, swap the all-purpose flour and wheat flour mixture, with any gluten-free flour. Almond flour, coconut flour, and oat flour would all work well for Gluten-Free savory muffins.
• Expect a thick batter. Thick batter helps ensure the muffins lift UP rather than spread OUT.

How to Serve Savory Muffins:

These Mediterranean zaatar muffins make the best breakfast or brunch. Use a butter knife to slice a warm muffin in half. You can spread some labneh over the muffin then serve it with fresh veggies and olives.

Storage

Keep muffins in a zippered bag or airtight container in the fridge. They should keep about 4-5 days, warm a little in air fryer or microwave before serving.

Zaatar and cheese muffins are also super easy to freeze! Simply freeze them when they are fully cooled by popping them in a zippered bag. They should keep about a month or so in the freezer.

Thank you for reading! I hope these Zaatar Savory Muffins turn out delicious. I always serve mine with my Homemade Labneh, and let me tell you… truly the perfect pairing!

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