Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Eileen's Best Banana Bread

This is from Cooking Light on-line. I don't know who Eileen is, but her recipe sounds yummy and it got great reviews.

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup whole-wheat flour
1/4 cup flaxseed meal
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup mashed ripe banana (3 medium)
1/2 cup chopped walnuts *
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup plain low-fat yogurt (can use non-fat yogurt to save more calories and fat)
1/4 cup canola oil
Cooking spray

*in reading reviews of this recipe some people added mini dark chocolate chips instead of walnuts. Or you can use 1/4 cup walnuts and 1/4 cup mini chips. This will alter the nutrition break down.

1. Preheat oven to 325°.
2. Scoop flours into measuring cup and level with a knife. Combine flours and next 4 ingredients (through baking soda) in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk. Combine banana and next 4 ingredients (through oil) in a small bowl. Add banana mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until moist.
3. Spoon the batter into a 9 x 5–inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack, and remove from pan. Cool on wire rack.Yield: 12 servings (serving size: 1 slice)

CALORIES 212 ; FAT 9.2g (sat 0.8g,mono 3.7g,poly 4.2g); CHOLESTEROL 1mg; CALCIUM 60mg; CARBOHYDRATE 30.4g; SODIUM 189mg; PROTEIN 4.3g; FIBER 2.6g; IRON 1.1mg
From: Cooking Light, OCTOBER 2009

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