I've got some bananas that will soon be overly-ripe and I want to make banana bread, but I was wondering if anyone out there has a healthy recipe for it that's fairly easy so it won't blow my good eating out the window.... Any ideas?
Thanks!
I have a bunch of recipes at home. What are you looking for? Low fat? Low carb? With carbs but low sugar?
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Low carb would be good, basically anything that gets away from all the uber-high cals that baked goods tend to have. I C+P'd this question in the NROL4W thread and got a couple ideas too. Thanks so much!
ingredients:
2oz (50g) margarine, melted
2oz (50g) brown sugar
6oz (175g) wholemeal flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 bananas, mashed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1+1/2 fl oz (35ml) soya milk, diluted with 1+1/2 fl oz (35ml)water.
method:
preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C, gas mark 4). cream together the margarine and the sugar until light and fluffy. sieve the flour with the baking powder. add this with the bananas, vanilla and the soya milk + water solution to the creamed margarine and beat together. pack the mixture into a greased loaf tin and bake in the preheated oven for about 1 hour. remove the baked loaf from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.
I'm not quite sure on how many calories there are.. but i'm sure there are few. You can always reduce the sugar content or add other flavours such as orange or lemon zest, or plain chocolate chips.
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3 or 4 ripe bananas smashed, 1/3 cup melted butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 egg beaten, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 teaspoon baking soda, Pinch of salt, 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour. Method: Preheat the oven to 350°F . With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix. Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour. Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.
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Last edited by RacerBill : 11-22-2008 at 05:44 PM.
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I made some banana muffins recently. They came out great. You could easily make a loaf out of it instead.
Nutrition Info for 1 muffin:
Calories: 77
Fat: 1.7g
Carbs: 10g
Protein: 5.3g
Sugar: 3.1g
Sodium: 220mg
Ingredients
* 3 large, ripe bananas
* 4 egg whites
* 2 tbsp vegetable oil
* 1/3 cup nonfat milk
* 1/2 cup splenda
* 1 tsp vanilla
* 1/2 tsp cinnamon
* 1 tsp salt
* 1/2 tsp baking soda
* 1 tsp baking powder
* 2 scoops protein powder
* 1 cup oats (processed to fine crumbs in blender)
* 1 cup all purpose flour
How to Make It
* Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
* Mash bananas with fork.
* Add eggs, oil, milk, sugar, salt, cinnamon, vanilla, baking soda
and baking powder. Beat well with whisk.
* Gently blend the protein, flour and oats into the banana
mixture and stir for 20 seconds or until
moistened.
* Pour batter into lined or greased muffin pan, about 1/2 inch from the top.
* Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted
near the middle of the center muffin comes out clean.
* Let cool for five minutes before removing
from pan. Makes 15 muffins (If you don't mind overflowing a bit, you can get 12.
This is a FANTASTIC web site for all things baking related & extremely healthy, with a few banana bread recipes. I found it when I was looking for better alternatives for my son, since I felt so guilty feeding him crappy treats. These are really really clean, healthy, fantastic & easy for the most part. http://pattycake.ca/recipes
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I made this one and it was really nice but I used less sugar as it was a bit sweet for my taste.
120ml sunflower oil
125g light muscovado sugar
3 large eggs
225g self-raising flour
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 ripe bananas
150ml low-fat natural yogurt
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan160°C/gas 4. Grease a 900g loaf tin with a little oil. Line with baking paper.
2. Pour the oil into a large bowl. Add the sugar and mix with a large balloon whisk for a few minutes. Crack 1 egg into a small bowl, add to the sugar and oil. Whisk until the egg disappears. Repeat with the remaining 2 eggs.
3. Stir in the flour and cinnamon. Take a large metal spoon and gently fold the flour into the mixture.
4. Peel and slice the bananas into another bowl, then mash with a fork. Fold into the cake mixture along with the yogurt, pour it into the lined tin.
5. Bake for 1 hour, or until the cake is well risen and golden. Leave longer – about 10-15 minutes if not quite done. Leave the cake in the tin to cool, then turn out and cut into slices
These all banana recepies sounds are`nt of my kind so can anyone tel me any other recepie as m suffering with the same situation of over riped bananas...
REGARDS !
I just made a slightly modified version of Galya's recipe and it was yummy with a teaspoon of butter smeared on top for breakfast this morning!
1 banana
1 scoop protein powder
1/2 cup wheat bran
slightly less than 1/2 cup of oats
1 egg white
a sprinkle of cinnamon and sugar
more plain cinnamon
a bit of cocoa powder
Fitday gives it a value (with my protein powder) of 434 calories, 33.3 grams of protein and 19 grams of fiber.
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I just made a slightly modified version of Galya's recipe and it was yummy with a teaspoon of butter smeared on top for breakfast this morning!
1 banana 1 scoop protein powder
1/2 cup wheat bran
slightly less than 1/2 cup of oats 1 egg white
a sprinkle of cinnamon and sugar
more plain cinnamon
a bit of cocoa powder
Fitday gives it a value (with my protein powder) of 434 calories, 33.3 grams of protein and 19 grams of fiber.
What protein powder do you use? How big is a scoop?
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I don't have a specific recipe on hand. However, I always replace all the butter or oil in a quick bread recipe with unsweetened applesauce. I have never had anyone that could tell the difference either.
BTW, I have even replaced the oil in a box cake mix with applesauce. I tried in on my dad who loves him some german chocolate cake and "can always tell if it's nonfat". He did not have a clue there was no oil or butter in there!
This thread looks like it may have died quiet some time ago, but if anyone comes across this thread and wants to try something a little bit different, i have a great recipe that alwasy seems to go over well. Try this .. and enjoy:
1/3 c. natural applesauce
3/4 c. brown sugar
3 egg whites
2-3 bananas
1/3 c. water
1 2/3 c. wheat flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix applesauce and sugar.
Stir in eggs then bananas then water.
Stir in dry ingredients.
Pour mixture into a loaf pan and bake 55-60 minutes or until knife comes out clean.
Healthy banana bread recipe?
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