A Healthier Recipe for Banana Bread recipe. This Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips recipe was devoured by my entire family in nearly a day…seriously ya’ll it’s that good!
One of my all time favorite things to do is just create recipes from scratch. I hardly ever follow a recipe and find myself standing in the kitchen wondering how to make something a tad bit more healthier. For my family changing diets slowly has become my thing. It seems like as I get onto the path of eating healthier and healthier the kids {and Jas} aren’t inclined to bitch as much.
When I first started this whole weight loss thing I went overboard WAY to quickly and that resulted in push backs from everybody.
This Recipe for Banana Bread was developed out of curiosity. Curiosity to remove all that butter from my original recipe and get rid of the sour cream or cream cheese that we often add into banana bread for something healthier.
The healthier options I had on hand was greek yogurt and whole wheat flour. So I combined the two for this recipe for banana bread and kept on going to see what the results would yield.
VARIATIONS FOR BANANA BREAD
- If you prefer a nut in your banana bread, feel free to add walnut pieces
- Don’t have Whole Wheat Flour? NO worries my friend, go ahead and add the same amount of all purpose flour!
- Low on Coconut Oil? You can also substitute Coconut Oil the same amount of butter or applesauce.
- Speaking of applesauce. Are you allergic to eggs? No problem, for this recipe add in 1 C of Applesauce.
The results of this healthier banana bread recipe was incredible. So much in fact, the kids devoured this recipe in literally minutes. The bread was still warm after I happened to do this photo shoot. I turned around to grab a piece and there was literally a slice left!
How To Make A Healthier Recipe for Banana Bread
First, make sure that the bananas that you are using are ripe and soft. This will allow mashing the bananas much easier and won’t leave the dough so clumpy.
Add in eggs, yogurt, room temperature butter and coconut oil, mix until combined.
Tip: by adding chocolate chips to ANYTHING your kids will try it!
I will say this is the most decadent Banana Bread that I’ve ever made. The entire family cooking stop eating it, my Husband included. This recipe would also make a great gift for a new neighbor, to cheer someone up or just because!
More Healthy Recipes To Try;
- Healthy Substitute Printable
- Healthy Chocolate Chip Pancakes
- Broccoli Apple Salad with Avocado Dressing
- Strawberry Fields Salmon Salad
- Coconut Oil Chocolate Chip Cookies
Healthier Recipe for Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 2 Bananas mashed
- 2 Eggs
- 1 Oikos Vanilla Greek Yogurt
- ¾ C Unsalted Butter room temp
- ¼ C Coconut Oil
- ¼ TSP Salt
- ¼ TSP Nutmeg
- ¼ TSP Cinnamon
- 2 C Whole Wheat Flour
- ½ C Semi Sweet Morsels
Instructions
- PREHEAT oven to 375.
- In a large mixing bowl mash bananas.
- Add in eggs, yogurt, room temperature butter and coconut oil, mix until combined.
- Next add in salt, nutmeg, cinnamon and flour, stir until combined folding in morsels.
- In a greased bread dish pour mixture evenly.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes until golden brown and toothpick comes out clean.
How much yogurt is in the container? I usually buy my yogurt in bulk.
8 oz.
Mine just came out of the oven but doesn’t resemble a banana bread loaf. There was bubbling liquid when I took it out and it’s very heavy and thick, very browned crust. Looking at some comments I see I didn’t use enough yogurt. Only saw a 5.3 oz container so that’s what I used. Also, I used baby bananas from our trees but used 5 to closely equal 2 lg. Would it be the yogurt (or lack of enough) that made the difference?
Hi Genie, It may be. I buy the 32 oz. tubs of Greek Yogurt at my store since I bake with it often.
Can I use same amount of all purpose flour instead of wheat or do I need to adjust?
Hi Pete, You can use the same amount of APF as Wheat.