We all want to live happier, healthier lives, but sometimes there isn’t enough time to eat a banana, is there? Well, that’s what happens in my life. So, like many before me and a great many after me, I had a few very squishy and inedible looking bananas in my kitchen this morning. Fortunately, I took the easy way out by making healthy banana bread!
A birthday is also looming on the horizon, which led to me hitting two seemingly problematic birds with one delicious banana stone (gift edition)!
If you want to go the gift-giving route too, bake healthy banana bread, let it cool, and then wrap it in brown paper tied with a piece of twine.
YOU WILL NEED
Equipment: An Electric or hand mixer and a loaf tin.
INGREDIENTS
- 2 eggs separated (room temperature)
- 4 ripe bananas
- ¼ cup honey
- ¼ cup milk of your choice
- ¼ cup olive or coconut oil
- 1 cup raw oats
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground pepper
- ½ tsp salt
- Pinch of clove powder
Optional: Add ½ cup chopped nuts of your choice and ¼ cup peanut butter for extra indulgence.
METHOD
Pre-heat the oven to 160ºC and grease the bread tin.
- Mash the bananas and set to one side.
- Mix the honey and oil until combined.
- Blend in the eggs, mashed banana and milk.
- Blend in dry ingredients and any extras like nuts and peanut butter.
- Whisk the egg whites until the soft peak stage.
- Fold in the egg whites and try to keep the fluffiness within the batter, which means don’t beat it until it is no longer breathing bubbles.
- Pour into your bread tin and place in the oven.
- Bake for 60 minutes. Remember to check on the bread after 40 minutes. *
- Once the bread passes the toothpick test, you can remove it from the bread tin to cool down.
- Finally, slice the banana bread and pair with cream cheese or even better, butter!
*Baking times depend on your oven above all. The tiny thing in my kitchen just passes for an oven, and it took almost two hours to bake my banana bread!
Happy Gift-Baking!
