Cheese and Ham Mega Muffins

I have bake many different kind of  muffins but never try baking any savory muffins before. I came across this recipe from one of my cooking book. The title of the book is CUPCAKE & MUFFINS. I bought it in one of the year end Popular sale. There are over 100 recipes in it. 

I flipped through the book and saw the following Cheese and Ham Mega Muffins recipe. I check the ingredients and basically I have them all. So I start baking. 

INGREDIENTS FOR CHEESE AND HAM MEGA MUFFINS

250g - All purpose flour (Plain flour)

2 tsp - Baking powder

1/4 tsp - Salt

125g (1 cup) - Grated cheddar ( I use about 1/2 cup)

80g (80g) - Chopped ham

50g (1/3 cup) - sun dried tomatoes (I use around 25g and I cut it into strip)

3 tbsp - Chopped Parsley 

250ml (1 cup) - Milk

60ml (1/4 cup) - Olive oil

1 egg, beaten

METHOD FOR CHEESE AND HAM MEGA MUFFINS

1. Pre - heat the oven to 180C. Lightly greased muffin tray and set aside.

2. Sieve flour, baking powder and salt into in a large mixing bowl.

3. Add three-fourths of the cheese and all the ham, sun dried tomatoes and parsley. Toss well to combine.

4. In another bowl, whisk together milk, oil and egg.

5. Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture and stir in milk mixture, until just combined. Do not overmix it.

6. Spoon mixture evenly into prepared muffin tray. Sprinkle remaining cheese on top. 

7. Bake at oven for 20 minutes or until cake tester came out clean.

 Just before I sent my muffins into the oven.

CHEESE AND HAM MEGA MUFFINS

I have made some adjustment with the ingredients like cheese as I worried that my muffin will came out too cheesy. And I cut down the dried tomatoes too as not sure how it tested if too many sun dried tomatoes in it. Therefore you can see that my cheese and ham mega muffins are not that creamy. I have done this just in time for lunch and brought some over to my sister in law office for her lunch. She reckon that it tastes nice. However, I will add more cheese next time if I would like to do this again.

* Please note that step 3 is very important. Make sure that the flour mixture are well combined with the ham, sun dried tomatoes and parsley. Toss well.