Last Updated on June 3, 2015 by Chef Mireille
Blogging Marathon #30
Theme: Bookmarked Recipes
One of my idiosyncratic eating habits is that I only like under ripe bananas. Once the spots start appearing and they get soft and mushy, they get utilized in pancakes, smoothies and sweet breads.
When I was in the process of deciding which of my bookmarked recipes I should use for today’s post, I had 2 over ripe bananas by my standards that needed to be used for something. That was what led me to Sumee’s recipe for Cranberry Banana Bread here.
I had planned to follow her recipe exactly as is but after sifting the dry ingredients, I opened my cabinet to get the cranberries I thought I had. Nowhere to be found. I must have forgotten I finished them, so the cranberries had to be replaced with other fruit in the pantry.
Yield: 1 loaf
Ingredients:
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/3 cup ground flaxseeds
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup strained yogurt
- 2 bananas, mashed
- 1/2 cup pitted dates, roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup candied fruit, aka tutti frutti
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 350. Grease a loaf pan.
Toss fruit with 2 tablespoons of the flour.
Sift flours with flaxseed, salt and baking soda.
Mix sugar and olive oil.
Add eggs, bananas and half of the yogurt.
Start adding the flour a little at a time, alternating with the remaining yogurt.
Fold in the fruit. Transfer to the prepared loaf pan.
Bake for 60-70 minutes, until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
High in fiber with the use of whole wheat flour, flaxseeds and dates and low in fat by using olive oil, this is a healthy sweet bread you don’t have to feel guilty about indulging in.
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This is one of our family favorites. Great recipe.
Healthy and flavorful bread ! Who can resist this..
Great recipe.. Perfect bread.. Definitely worth trying 🙂
lovely bread and this is bookmarked.thanks for the recipe dear:)
Wow so much flax seeds!!! that should be so delicious and so nutty!!
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High in fiber, rich in taste, ohh these lines n the pictures make me want to try this bread now!!!
They indeed are amazing!! Thanks for sharing..
LOve this bread with great flavor of banana and date both are healthy.
Love to have this kind of super moist bread for my breakfast, a complete healthy bread.
that looks great..love its color with tutti fruity and dates…and cant miss that pretty plate.
I love the light pink ting to the bread…so yum…I like my banana just right..:)
This thing looks irresistible.
Beautiful pictures..looks delicious…
Same situation with bananas in our house too.. Unfortunately in summer, all the bananas ripen up at the same time and I usually end up using them in pancakes, smoothies or in baking.
Love the first click.. Makes me want to make this cake right away with my mushy bananas that I have.
yummmmmmmmmmmmy
i love the bread. dates and bananas:)
i love banana bread, and although kiddo doesnt like it made too often, I cant seem to have enough of this yummy bake ! looks fab, esp the first pic !
Kalyani
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Love the colorful bread, Mir!
Tried this recipe…it wz fab! Baking my second round (by demand) today!