Banana bread is an all time favorite.
Making an egg-less or vegan cake or a bread is a challenge always, as one wants the best texture and taste in the bread.
The result was moist, light and soft banana bread. so in this vegan banana bread recipe, the two ingredients which contributes majorly to the texture of the banana bread is of course bananas & oil.
I have not added any other ingredient besides the usual bread ingredients in this banana bread. I had flax seed but still i wanted to make a bread without flax seed powder as many of us do not have these readily available in their kitchens.
So this is far by the best banana bread that you can make and this recipe is for keeps.
I have added sunflower seeds in the bread to make it more nutritious but you can easily skip adding them. I have made the bread with organic whole wheat flour, but if you want you can make the bread with all purpose flour or half-half of both the flours.
- 300 Grams Ripe Bananas About 4 Bananas
- 180 Grams Whole wheat flour About 1.5 Cup
- 1 Teaspoon Coconut Oil For Greasing
- 125 Ml Ekin Olive Oil About 1/2 Cup
- 1/2 Cup Organic Brown Sugar Or Unrefined Cane Sugar
- 1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Powder
- 1/4 Teaspoon Cinnamon Powder
- 1/8 Teaspoon Nutmeg Powder
- 1 Tablespoon Sunflower Seeds
- 1.5 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1.5 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- Pinch Of Salt
- Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.
- Grease a bread tin or a rectangular cake pan with some coconut oil. you can use the rectangular cake pan of size ( 7.5 x 4 x 2.5 inches) or round cake pan (7.5 x 2 inches).
- Take sliced bananas and sugar in a mixing bowl.
- Mash the bananas well or puree them with a hand blender.
- Now add the oil, vanilla, cinnamon powder, nutmeg powder to the banana and mix well.
- Sieve the flour with the baking soda, baking powder, salt directly in the bowl containing the mashed bananas.
- Fold the sieved flour really well.
- This folding step is important as you want the whole bread mixture to be one and mixed evenly.
- Lastly add the sunflower seeds and fold these.
- Pour the bread mixture into the loaf pan.
- Bake at 180 degree C for 30-40 minutes or till a toothpick inserted in the bread comes out clean.
- Once warm or cool remove the bread from the pan.
- Slice and serve banana bread warm.
- The remaining loaf, you can wrap in a cling film or keep in a box in the fridge. warm the banana bread before serving.
If coconut oil is added to the bread, it solidifies when refrigerated, hence the bread also becomes dense when you refrigerate it. so before serving just warm up the bread and the bread will have its natural texture back.
sweetness of the bread can be adjusted as per your preferences.
