Banana bread! Generally served lathered in butter and made with proccessed white flour and far too much sugar. So I decided to come up with a recipe which is so healthy you can eat it for breakfast!
This recipe includes flaxseed, chia, oats AND almonds, which makes it the perfect breakfast or afternoon snack to keep to going for hours! All of the ingredients used within this recipe bring health-promoting omega 3 fats, potassium, Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, powerful antioxidants and natural anti-inflammatories, but don’t worry, it’s been done without sacrificing any of that classic buttery delicious banana bread flavour!
This is a super easy recipe, so no excuses to not have a nourishing breakfast ready to go during the week!
Banana Bread
- 1 cup mashed ripe banana + one banana for decoration
- 3 free range eggs
- 1tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup macadamia oil
- 1-3 tblsp honey ( Depending on how sweet you like it )
- 1tsp cinnamon
- sprinkle of salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup almond meal
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1/4 cup shredded coconut
- 1tblsp chia seed
- 1tblsp ground flaxseed
- 1/2 cup pecans or walnuts
- Pre-heat oven to 160 °C.
- Mash bananas and mix in eggs, vanilla, oil and honey.
- In a seperate bowl combine oat flour, almond meal, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, chia, flax and coconut.
- Mix dry ingredients into wet.
- Mix in nuts.
- Pour into lined bread tin, top with sliced banana and extra nuts.
- Bake for 45 – 60 minutes, don’t allow it to completely dry out as you want it to be moist!
- Let cool completely before removing from the tin.
There you have it! There are so many other things you could add to this recipe such asberries, cacao nibs or other different nuts! It can also easily be made gluten free by using 2 cups of almond meal rather than half oat flour. I served mine toasted with a dollop of natural peanut butter, yum!
I love the idea of adding the sliced banana on top! Also, great photos 🙂
Thankyou! its super yummy when the banana cooks 🙂 xx
Looks amazing! Can I use 2 cups of oat flour instead of 1 cup of almond meal and 1 cup of oat flour? Or any other ingredient?
Hi Carmen! Yep you sure can 🙂 Just as you can use two cups of almond flour in order to make it gluten free 🙂
I baked this tonight & it turned out absolutely amazing!! So simple to make and also so sweet and dense, without the refined sugar! Love this recipe & will be using it on a weekly basis – thank you!!
Can you use coconut oil (melted) instead of macadamia oil? Thanks x
That should work aswell, but you could also sub for any sort of nut oil, or even avocado oil! 🙂 xx
That looks and sounds so amazing and I will definitely try the recipe! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I am not sure if I’ll get macadamia oil here in germany, I guess, I can also use walnut oil or coconut oil, right?
Absolutely! I bet walnut oil would be delicious! Xx
Thanks! When I make it, I will post my result on instagram and tag you 😉
Perfect, I can’t wait to see!
Yummy!! It’s so good! I made it today <3 Thanks for sharing this great recipe! <3 xx
This banana bread looks great! 🙂
I have a vegan version of this in the oven right now…it smells heavenly! I’ll let you know how it works 🙂
yumm! i hope it turns out fabulously!! xx
Can you post the vegan recipe?
Mine too is baking in the oven…bit excited. Might have to be my new breakfast.
Hi, is there any substitute for the macadamia oil? Will coconut oil work as well? Or will that not work because it’s not a liquid?
Thanks
I am not sure about coconut oil but you could substitute it with any other neutral plant based oil such as avocado or olive oil xxx
Do you think Avacado oil would be okay to use instead of Macadamia oil?
Absolutely! 🙂 xx
Do you have the approximate nutritional info for this recipe? Hubby is calorie counting for a few weeks to kickstart his health journey and we just need a little guidance with this! It’s DELICIOUS btw! xx