Low sugar (no butter) banana bread
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 3:41 am
OK, made it and ate some :) I made a double batch, so I could make one loaf with semi-sweet chocolate chips and one without. Hubby didn't want chocolate, but I think he's going to be sorry. I used 8 black bananas mashed into 4 beaten eggs, and in typical lazy fashion, I didn't sift the dry ingredients, just mashed them in in no particular order. There are some definite pros and some definite cons to this recipe. Pros--easy, fast, inexpensive, and you probably have all or most of the ingredients already, wonderfully dense and moist right out of the oven, good if you're trying to cut down on fats, sugars, or are allergic to taste in your food. Texture is GREAT, like a delicious, fresh slice of homemade whole grain bread, only with bananas, so BETTER lol.
Cons: Boring. Tastes like a cheap store brand whole grain bread, if it had bananas, so, banana flavoured cardboard. It definitely needed the chocolate chips. I also ended up putting butter on it LOL. Nuts would have been good as well, but mine had been sitting in the cupboard too long and starting to get that past-due smell to them, so no nuts. Other things that would be good in it and give it a little oomph, are shredded coconut, sunflower seeds, maybe even some dried currants. You could probably add a bit of molasses to darken it up if you're using fresher bananas than I did, and give it a bit more flavour as well.
All in all, the pros outweigh the cons, and I will almost certainly make it again (butter ain't cheap) and tweak it more to my liking.
Thank you for the recipe!
Cons: Boring. Tastes like a cheap store brand whole grain bread, if it had bananas, so, banana flavoured cardboard. It definitely needed the chocolate chips. I also ended up putting butter on it LOL. Nuts would have been good as well, but mine had been sitting in the cupboard too long and starting to get that past-due smell to them, so no nuts. Other things that would be good in it and give it a little oomph, are shredded coconut, sunflower seeds, maybe even some dried currants. You could probably add a bit of molasses to darken it up if you're using fresher bananas than I did, and give it a bit more flavour as well.
All in all, the pros outweigh the cons, and I will almost certainly make it again (butter ain't cheap) and tweak it more to my liking.
Thank you for the recipe!