Gluten-Free Banana Bread

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Hi Guys!

Just popping in to finally share the recipe for my new favorite banana bread. I’ve been tweeting about it all week, so now it’s time to spread the love!

This Gluten-Free Banana Bread is made with a mixture of chickpea and oat flours, plus greek yogurt for a little extra protein!

Let’s talk about this banana bread. Yes, it is gluten-free as long as you used certified gluten-free oats. I don’t really need it to be gluten-free, it just worked out that way! Let me tell you how awesome this bread is:

  • It uses chickpea flour. I’m not sure you guys are truly comprehending how much I love this stuff. It is amazing. Between my breakfast bars and this banana bread, I may never bake anything with wheat flour again. It’s like all the nutritional benefits of chickpeas, in flour form.
  • It uses greek yogurt and applesauce to replace a lot of the butter that’s usually in banana bread.
  • It uses less sugar than most banana breads, relying on the natural sweetness of the bananas.
  • If you cut the loaf into 12 slices, there are 5.5 grams of protein and 3 grams of fiber per slice.

This Gluten-Free Banana Bread is made with a mixture of chickpea and oat flours, plus greek yogurt for a little extra protein!

So there you have it! If you gave this to someone who didn’t know, they would never guess there was chickpea flour in it.

Gluten-Free Banana Bread

by Lindsay L

Prep Time: 5 min

Cook Time: 45 min

Keywords: bake bread breakfast snack gluten-free healthy vegetarian banana chickpeas oats

 

Ingredients (1 loaf)

  • 1 c chickpea flour
  • 1 c oat flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 2 Tbsp flax seed
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 c mashed banana- about 3 medium bananas
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • ¼ c plain Greek yogurt
  • 3 Tbsp butter, melted
  • 1 Tbsp apple sauce
  • ½ c sugar

Instructions

Combine the bananas, vanilla, eggs, yogurt, butter, applesauce and sugar in a bowl and mix well.

Add the flours, baking soda, baking powder, flax seed and cinnamon.

Stir until just combined and pour into a well-greased loaf pan.

Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes or until a toothpick is inserted and comes out clean.

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So there you have it! Super easy to throw together and much healthier than most version!

This Gluten-Free Banana Bread is made with a mixture of chickpea and oat flours, plus greek yogurt for a little extra protein!

This Gluten-Free Banana Bread is made with a mixture of chickpea and oat flours, plus greek yogurt for a little extra protein!

This Gluten-Free Banana Bread is made with a mixture of chickpea and oat flours, plus greek yogurt for a little extra protein!

 

 

Know what the best part is? Hubby doesn’t like bananas in baked goods so this loaf is alllllll for me 🙂

Enjoy!
–Lindsay–

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  1. Lindsay, I’m loving this banana bread. I’ve never used chickpea flour so this will definitely be an interesting recipe for me. Can’t wait to give this a try. Maybe I’ll be bad and add some sort of streusel. Or glaze. Or both!

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  3. Mmmmmm, I love banana bread! Looks like a great healthy version of it, too 🙂 Never worked with chickpea flour, is it calorically different from wheat flour?

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  9. I need to check out chickpea flour – I don’t know if my regular grocery store would have it. I may have to go to Whole Foods for it!

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  11. it’s been far too long since i’ve made banana bread! when i want to keep a loaf to myself, i add raisins. brad HATES raisins in baked goods, so i pretend that i forgot and then i get to eat it all! 🙂 i always make him his own raisin-free loaf too though!

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  13. This really looks good. I’ve seen chickpea flour and haven’t known what to do with it.

    Your recipe calls for flax seeds…these are NOT ground, right, but the whole seeds?

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      • You answered this in 2013–wondering if you experiemented with other things. I live in China, so not easy to get some things and oats aren’t good for me. I have bought a machine to make flour and I just bought some chickpeas in the market yesterday. Gluten free flour is available online, but at a terrible price. One question I have is do you mean flaxseed or flaxseed flour? Wondering if you’ve experimented with millet, and beans, like black eyed peas. etc

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