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This Banana Walnut Breakfast Loaf makes a great on the go breakfast. Bananas, spices and no added refined sugar. Free of Dairy, egg, corn, soy, gluten. Makes a medium bread pan.
This Breakfast Loaf has been sitting in my drafts since March. Quick to put together, with warm spices, Oat, rice, amaranth and almond flours, and a great snack as well. Add more nuts, other nuts and seeds, add cooked quinoa to the batter. Slice these up and carry everywhere. This loaf is gluten-free and refined sugar free. It can be easily made with gluten as well with any whole grain flour. For a regular wheat based banana bread, see this One Bowl Banana Apple Bread Loaf. For GF muffins see these gluten-free Banana chocolate chunk muffins.
Walnuts are a great source of fatty acids, they help lower bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol, vit E and B complex groups, manganese, copper, iron, potassium and have anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits.
Bananas of course are a pretty much over all awesome food. The sweetness eliminates the need for added sugars, the bulk eliminates the need for oil, all the potassium, fiber and B6 and this is one packed loaf.
Make this Gluten-free Banana Walnut Bread!
Why do I make smaller loafs you ask. Hubbs is allergic to Banana, and there is only so much snacking I can do. I prefer savory breakfast and snacks. The recipe can be doubled easily.
And someone please keep bugging me till I make gluten-free flour mix recipes for breads, cakes and bakes, so the recipe can say use a cup of my gf flour blend. 🙂
More Banana options from the blog.
This Banana Oat Quinoa Quick Bread bar.
Banana Walnut Brown Rice Pudding parfait. GF
Ginger Spiced Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies. GF
Banana Oatmeal Quinoa Cookies
And definitely use the fresh walnuts in these Carrot Cake pancakes!. GF option
Steps:
Mash the banana with the other wet ingredients.
Mix the dry ingredients and drop in a pan and bake.
One of the rare sunny days from March. It is partly cloudy today. If you see me disappear from the blog this Summer, you will know it is Sunny that day 😉
All baked and ready and the house smells amazing!
Banana Walnut Bread - Gluten free Banana Bread
Ingredients
Wet
- 2 ripe medium Bananas
- 1 Tbsp oil, optional
- 1/4 cup non dairy milk
- 2-3 Tbsp maple syrup , depends on the ripeness of the banana
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Dry
- 1/2 cup Oat flour, certified gluten-free
- 1/4 cup almond flour
- 1/4 cup white rice flour
- 1/4 cup amaranth flour, or sorghum or millet or use half flour and half starch for lighter loaf.
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch , or arrowroot starch
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp cloves
- 1/4 tsp ginger
- 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 365 degrees F / 180ºc.
- Mash the bananas well. then mix in all the wet ingredients.
- In a bowl, mix all the dry ingredients. Add to the wet and mix to combine.
- Fold in the walnuts. Drop the batter in a greased pan.
- Even it out and bake for 40 minutes.Check with a toothpick from the center. it should come out almost clean. Bake longer if needed.
- I used very ripe bananas. Use stevia/sugar to preference if the bananas are not sweet enough for the loaf. Or if the loaf is already baked and not sweet enough, serve warm with light maple drizzle.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Thank you so much for your healthy GF recipes (without gums, starches or weird additives). You truly are a Godsend! May God bless you and your loved ones! =)
Oh, YUM! I love a great slice of healthy banana bread. Thanks for sharing this!
i was just wondering whats the vinegar for.
I will definitely try this recipe
it helps with the leavening. you can omit it
In this recipe and in your recipes in general, can you substitute cashew flour for almond flour?
Can I use all almond or oat flour instead?
all oat makes the texture very different. use half oat half almond. or 3/4 cup oat flour and 1/2 cup almond flour to total the amount of flour used in this recipe.
Just made this loaf – DEELISH!!! Thank you so much for sharing 🙂
yay! so glad you made it and loved it!
PLEASE, PLEASE create an all purpose, healthy, gluten free flour mix!! In desperate need of one and everything you make turns to DEELISH!! Will be most appreciated!!
Such a pretty loaf- love all the goodness you packed in there!
Hi this looks awesome! I have a bag of Bob’s all purpose GF would I be able to sub that for the cornstarch flour mixture but still add the baking powder/soda??
Thanks!
yes you can use the gf flour blend. use 1.25 cups to sub all the flours till cornstarch.
it does have garbanzo bean flour. so if you are used to using the gf flour blend in sweet bakes and are ok with the bean taste then it will work well. I personally find the bean taste quite strong with a sweet bake. 🙂
I made this today but I used kefir milk and hazelnuts. Then cooked it in the breadmaker. I cooked it for 50 minutes but needed a little more. Would do this again for sure. Thanks.