Showing posts with label healthy banana bread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy banana bread. Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2014

Banana Yogurt Bread

Your basic banana bread with a healthy twist

Ingredients 
1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
pinch nutmeg
1/8 cup golden toasted flax seeds
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/2 cup room temp butter (can use 1/4 if you want but Chris and Justin love the buttery taste)
1/8 cup plain greek yogurt (use 1/4 if you use 1/4 cup butter)
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 room temp eggs
2 overripe bananas
1+ tsp vanilla

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 F, and prepare your baking pan (9x 5 loaf or 9x13 baking pan as pictured above) with butter and a light dusting of flour.

In one bowl, wisk together dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and flax seed and set aside

In a separate bowl, beat butter and yogurt.  Blend in brown sugar.  Beat in vanilla and then eggs one at a time (eggs and butter don't have to be room temp but it helps keep the bread lighter). Fold in peeled/mashed bananas until just combined.

Add combined wet ingredients in batches into the bowl of dry ingredient.  Fold mixtures together until just combined; be careful not to over mix because that makes the bread bake up heavier.

Spread batter in prepared pan and bake 30-35 minutes for a 9x13 pan or 50-55 for a regular 9x5 loaf pan. Baking can be be variable, so check the bread 5 minutes early to make sure it is cooking evenly.  When a knife or toothpick can be inserted and removed cleanly, remove bread from the oven and set aside on a wire rack to cool.

Enjoy!
GG

Nutrition
(serving size= 1 slice; 16 slices per batch)
Calories:  168
Fat: 7 g
Carb: 24 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 12 g
Protein: 3 g