Recipe Details

Banana Bread

Number of Servings: 2

Serving Size: 1 slice

Who doesn't love banana bread? Every household needs a banana bread recipe for those bananas that get too ripe before the family can get around to eating them all. And the recipe needs to be without all the fat and sugar, yet so moist and sweet that each slice can be eaten as is! Ask no more, it's all right here!

Ingredients
Instructions
Nutrition

Name:	Amount:
firmly packed brown sugar	0.50 cup
egg whites	2
vanilla extract	2 Tbsp
bananas (about 5)	3 cups
canola oil	2 Tbsp
whole-wheat pastry flour*	3 cups
baking soda	2 tsp
salt	0.50 tsp
coarsely chopped walnuts (optional)	0.67 cup
ground flax seed (optional)	0.50 cup

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Coat 2 loaf pans with cooking spray.

Mix together brown sugar, egg whites and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl.

Mash up bananas and mix into bowl.

Add canola oil to bowl and stir.

Mix flour, baking soda and salt into sifter and mix with wet ingredients.

Stir walnuts or flax seed into batter.

Divide batter evenly between the pans. Bake 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Nutritional Information (per serving)

Calories 137

Calories from Fat 27

Total Fat n/a

Saturated Fat 0g

Cholesterol 0mg

Sodium 160mg

Potassium n/a

Carbohydrates 23g

Dietary Fiber n/a

Sugars 7g

Protein 3g

Vitamin A n/a

Vitamin C n/a

Calcium n/a

Iron n/a

Folic Acid n/a

Dietary Exchange 1 1/2 Carbohydrate 1 Fat

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