I’ve been searching everywhere for a healthy banana bread recipe and found one at Half Baked that looked pretty healthy because it contained no sugar or oil and uses whole wheat flour. I made it this weekend with a couple substitutions- adding chopped walnuts and skipping the honey because instead of regular low fat Greek yogurt, I used my favorite carmel Greek yogurt by Stoneyfield. I thought that would add enough sweetness. Adding the walnuts was a hit, but don’t omit the honey like I did. My bread wasn’t sweet enough, but I’m thinking this recipe would be good with the honey. I’m going to keep experimenting!
Healthy Banana Bread via Half Baked
2 cups whole-wheat self-raising flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp cinnamon
3 bananas (very ripe)
¼ cup honey
2 eggs
¼ cup yogurt- lowfat Greek
1 tsp vanilla
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a loaf pan.
Whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
In a separate, mash the three bananas and stir in the rest of the wet ingredients. With a mixer, mix until well combined and the banana is smooth.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir together, but don’t over mix.
Pour the mixture into the loaf pan and bake for about 30 minutes.
The bread is done when a toothpick comes out clean.
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I have a similar recipe with all natural applesauce instead of yogurt…and a little more honey. Delish! Can be easily converted to pumpkin bread for the holidays too! Happy Baking 🙂
I have a similar recipe with all natural applesauce instead of yogurt…and a little more honey. Delish! Can be easily converted to pumpkin bread for the holidays too! Happy Baking 🙂
Oh, this is when I hate that I can no longer have bananas. Looks so yummy.