made some pretty fantastic banana bread today! I looked at lots of different recipes and ended up coming up with something of my own. I tried to make it as healthy as I could and it turned out fab! And it’s pretty low in calories too! Here it is…
Banana Bread
1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 beaten eggs
1 ½ cups mashed bananas (4-5)
¾ cup sucanat*
¼ cup canola oil
¼ cup chopped walnuts
Heat oven to 350 degrees and spray two small loaf pans with cooking spray.
Combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and a pinch of salt in a bowl.
In another bowl, combine eggs, bananas, sucanat, and oil.
Combine wet and dry ingredients. Stir until just combined. Fold in nuts.
Pour batter into loaf pans.
Bake in oven for 45 minutes (make sure that when you insert a toothpick or knife in the center that it comes out clean).
Let cool, then enjoy!
Nutrition Information: (according to the recipe tool on my bodybugg program)
Serving size- 1 slice (I got 20 slices out both loaf pans)
Calories: 112
Fat: 1.9g
Carbs- 22.2g
Protein- 2.6g
* Sucanat (sugar cane natural) is non refined cane sugar. It is essentially pure dried sugar cane juice. Sucanat is not a “processed” sugar and it ranks the highest in nutritional value, containing a smaller proportion of sucrose than white cane sugar. However, Sucanat (in common with all sugars) is not a significant source of any nutrient apart from simple carbohydrates.
If you can’t find any sucanat you can just use regular sugar if you wish.
