Ingredients

vegetable oil cooking spray

½cupyellow cornmeal

1tspbaking powder

½tspbaking soda

¼tspsalt

1cupall purpose flour

2tspall purpose flour

1½cupsripe bananas

½cuplow fat buttermilk

1tbspbrown rice syrup,or honey

1tbspfresh lemon juice

1large egg

1tspvanilla extract

1cupblueberries,fresh or frozen

1½tspsanding sugar,or granulated sugar

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a standard (12-cup) muffin tin with paper liners; coat liners with cooking spray.

Whisk together cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and 1 cup flour. In a large bowl, stir together bananas, buttermilk, rice syrup or honey, lemon juice, egg, and vanilla.

Fold cornmeal mixture into banana mixture just until combined. Toss blueberries with remaining 2 teaspoons flour, and gently fold into batter.

Spoon batter into prepared tin, filling to the brims. Sprinkle each muffin with sugar.

Bake for about 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of 1 comes out clean. Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack. (Muffins can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.)