Lower Sugar Banana Oat Bread

This is an uber easy banana bread recipe. Very basic. Just flour, sugar (much less than standard recipes), oats, eggs, vanilla, bananas and a few other ingredients. Bake and enjoy!

The key to a banana bread that is tender and not tough is to NOT OVER-MIX the batter. Just mix until it barely comes together.

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Bananas that are overripe seem to be a plague in my kitchen. I always have them on hand. Thankfully, nothing says, “I love you” to your family more than homemade bread of any kind: banana, honey white, sourdough. Knock out a couple of loaves of this fiber-filled yet moist and tasty banana oat bread.

This loaf only has 2/3 a cup of sugar. The standard banana bread recipe had anywhere from 3/4 cup to 1 cup of sugar. Yikes! If your bananas are very ripe- almost black, they have so much natural sweetness, you do not need to add much additional granulated sugar.

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Servings

Prep time

Cooking time

Calories

220

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1/4 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp fine sea salt
3/4 cup old fashioned oats (not instant)
2 very ripe bananas
1/3 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup canola oil
1 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs, beaten
softened butter or canola oil to grease pan

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Liberally coat with softened butter or canola oil a 9″ x 5″ loaf pan. Dust with flour.
Mix all dry ingredients (flour through salt) in a large mixing bowl. Be certain to carefully measure the flour. Whisk in the dry oatmeal. In a separate smaller bowl, mash the bananas. Add the buttermilk, oil, vanilla extract, eggs to the bananas
Fold banana mixture into flour and oats until just combined. Do NOT over mix. Spoon the batter into the prepared loaf pans.
Bake for 50-55 minutes or until a knife or toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean. Let loaf cool on a wire rack about 20 minutes before serving.

How to make Banana Bread even more yummy:

Add 1/2 chopped walnuts or pecans
Add 1/2 cup dark or semi sweet chocolate chips
Add 1/2 cup flaked coconut