February 15, 2013

Yummy & Healthy Banana Bread Recipe

Hi everybody! 

Valentine's day is over, and I imagine most of us enjoyed it with some quality chocolates and extra wine last night. Tick tock - it is time to jump right back to healthy eating again! One of the best ways to do that is to cut out all dairy, wheat and sugar from your diet for a couple of days. But that does not necessarily mean that you have to be boring and eat only bunny food.

I have come up with a sugar-free, dairy-free AND gluten-free banana bread recipe that is super healthy, juicy and has a ton of vitamins and nutrients.

What you will need:

- rectangular loaf bread baking tray that you usually use for baking breads or making lazania
- baking paper


- 100 g chopped walnuts or pecans
- 100 g dried cranberries (you can also add other dried berries and fruits like dried blackcurrants, goji berries, dried plums etc.)


wet ingredients:
- a little bit of oil (olive, sunflower or any other nut/vegetable oil)
- 4 ripe bananas
- 1 teaspoon organic vanilla extract
- 4 eggs

dry ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups almond flour (or quinoa flour)
- 1/2 cup coconut flour (or rice flour)
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- a ton of cinnamon (I used like 1/2 a pack)
- 1 teaspoon freshly grinded muscat (and other spices of your preference)

Recipe:

1) pre-heat your oven to 175-180 degrees Celsius
2) in a bowl mix together all of the dry ingredients
3) in a separate bowl mix together all of the wet ingredients (mash the bananas with a fork, add the eggs, vanilla extract and 5-6 tablespoons of oil)
4) mix together the wet ingredients and dry ingredients; stir in the chopped walnuts and cranberries

5) place the baking paper inside of the loaf baking tray and grease it with a tiny bit of olive oil; with a big spoon carefully put in the dough
6) bake it for 50-55 minutes or until nice and golden brown
7) eat it with fresh berries or soy pudding. You can eat it for 3-4 days and toast it little bit to make it nice, warm and crispy later on :)

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