Since I cannot just have one piece of banana bread, I try to make my banana bread as healthy as possible. It minimizes the guilt and every time I eat a piece, I feel better in knowing that it's healthy. I switched out the all purpose flour for a combination of wheat flour, all purpose flour and oats. Instead of sugar, I replaced the sugar with maple syrup and used less syrup than what the original recipe call for. I figured since I was adding chocolate chips, I could cut back on some of the sugar content. Instead of oil or butter, I used greek yogurt in its place. It makes the bread extra moist and adds protein!
So what if it has a few.....ok more than a few chocolate chips, it's all relative right?
Ingredients:
3 ripe mashed bananas
1/2 cup maple syrup (you can use regular sugar or brown sugar)
2 eggs
1/2 cup greek yogurt
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup oats
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3 TBSP milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
In medium sized bowl, combine flours, oats, baking soda and powder.
In large bowl, beat together bananas, syrup, eggs, yogurt. Add dry mixture to banana mixture, along with vanilla and milk. Stir until just combined and stir in chocolate chips.
Pour in a greased bread pan. Bake for 50-55 minutes. I like my banana bread a little under baked so I always take it out around the 50-55 minute mark. If you don't like it underbaked, leave it in the oven for at least 1 hour.
I couldn't even help myself to sneaking some banana bread while taking a picture! That is why some of that piece is missing! And I am the reason why most of the bread is gone already.....
