Nigella Lawson's Orange Breakfast Muffins

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to 200?C/gas mark 6.

2. 2

   Melt the butter and set aside.

3. 3

   Combine the flour, ground almonds, bicarb, baking powder, sugar and orange zest in a large bowl.

4. 4

   Measure the orange juice and milk into a jug and whisk in the egg and then the cooled, melted butter.

5. 5

   Now pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients, mixing with a fork as you go. The batter will be lumpy but that's as it should be: you want everything to be no more than barely combined. The whole point of muffin mixture is that it must never be overworked.

6. 6

   Spoon out the mixture equally into the muffin cases and cook for 20 minutes.

7. 7

   Remove, in their paper cases, to a wire rack and let cool slightly (but not completely) before devouring.