Healthy Banana Bread Recipe with Walnuts

 Healthy banana bread recipe with walnuts

Ingredients

2 eggs

A Greek Yogurt (or any kind in hand) or a milk or a powder milk

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/2 a cup of oil (olive oil if possible) or any kind in hand

1 tablespoon of cinnamon

3 overripe bananas

1/2 cup of chopped walnuts

1/2 cup of pecans or roasted almonds

Raw sugar 

Method

 

In that recipe we'll be showing you how to make the most delicious and moist banana bread ever. It's a very healthy version which doesn't contain any added sugar. We will also be adding some walnuts for more flavor and texture we all know that whole nuts go really nice in the banana bread and like I said it's very moist.

It's easy to make, only need five minutes to put it all together and put it in the oven, and we'll show the instructions you need to make this delicious banana bread and also all the alternatives you can use.

Before we get into the bath, we're going to first prepare the baking tin. if you don't want to use parchment paper or you don't have it handy, what you can do is spray your tin with a nonstick spray or oil and flour it before pouring in the banana bread batter, but what I'm doing instead is using parchment paper and what I'm doing is cutting two pieces of parchment paper that I'm going to overlay with each other in order to cover all the sides and the bottom of my rectangular baking tin, the first one is long enough to cover the two small size of the baking tin without necessarily covering the other sides as you see . Then we're going to add a second piece of parchment paper which is wide enough to cover the two larger size of the baking tin without necessarily covering the two other sides and then we're just going to place these two pieces of parchment paper on the baking tin.

Now we can get into the batter to start by breaking the two eggs and use just a fork to slightly beat them with the salt.

And then we're going to start adding the rest of the ingredients, so add the yogurts you see a Greek yogurt, if you don't have a Greek yogurt you can use any kind you have in hand, or just hold a milk or also powder milk that will work fine.

And then we're going to add the honey if you don't want to use honey you can totally substitute with the same quantity of maple syrup, then add the 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

After that Add the oil, so the recipe calls for 1/2 a cup of oil, I personally used mostly olive oil to which I added some walnut oil and the little bit of avocado oil till I feel might have a cap you can use only olive oil if you prefer to or coconut oil, melt it or you can use also a mixture of both olive oil and melted coconut oil or sunflower oil is also not bad. And now, use a fork to mix everything together, we don't want to incorporate air or over mix anything, we just want everything to be will homogenic before we add in the bananas.

 

and now we're going to add the bananas, so make sure to peel them off right before you add them into the pattern make sure that the bananas are really ripe almost over ripe with a lot of black spots on the skin because only at this point you get this really nice banana flavor you have a very creamy texture and this is what you want to have in your banana bread. if you use green bananas or bananas that are not very ripe the end result will be totally different in terms of texture and flavor.

And then use a potato masher or whatever tool you have in the kitchen that will allow you to smash the bananas. 

So mix the dry ingredients are going to add the baking soda to the flour and also the cinnamon I used here one tablespoon of cinnamon because I think it really enhances the flavor of the walnuts and the banana if you prefer a stronger cinnamon flavour you can add more if you don't of course you can totally skip it and use a dry fork or a whisk to mix all the dry ingredients together before adding in them into the wet ingredients. 

Finally, we're going to add the chopped walnuts which you can of course substitute with pecans or roasted almonds now use a spatula a wooden spoon or whatever you prefer to mix everything together you don't want to over mix it all over the way do it just enough until you don't see any flour and not incorporate it and it's already time to stop after pouring the batter into the baking tin you can already stop at this point and bake your banana bread but if you prefer to you can add some toppings. I personally added a few chocolate chips to the top and I sprinkled some cinnamon to give it a more cinnamon kick but this is a tasting if you don't like cinnamon you can skip it you can also chop it with few chopped walnuts and you can also sprinkle with some raw sugar to give it more crust. 

The oven must be preheated to 160 degrees Celsius that's 325 Fahrenheit and it will take between 55 and 60 minutes to bake and it's ready when the score or the name of a knife comes out dry.

Once out of the oven places on a cooling rack and allow it to cool slightly before you remove it from the tin and as you can see it has nicely risen the outer crust looks so delicious it has a nice golden brown to it if you have used the parchment paper method I've showed you at the beginning you can see how easy it is to unmold the banana bread and peel off the parchment paper and the loaf looks just perfect and there you are you have yourself a very delicious banana bread that's very healthy it's guilt-free and it has the right texture and flavors I really love it.