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!
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.
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
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.
So there you have it! Super easy to throw together and much healthier than most version!
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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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!
oh gosh, a steusel topping would be SO GOOD!!!
Note to self: let some bananas ripen. Oh, and see if WF has chickpea flour!
Cannot wait to try this!
If they aren’t ripe enough, you can stick them in a brown paper bag … that technique gets them ripe very quickly!
ahhhh, good tip! i always forgets that works with bananas and not just peaches 🙂
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?
i think it’s actually less calories!
I am ALL over this! Looks fantastic!
omg, swooned a little when I saw you commented on my blog 🙂 let me know how you like it if you try it out!
Loooove. 18 yrs GF and always collecting recipes.
yay!!!! enjoy!
i am thrilled for this recipe! GF love all the way! pinning it.
enjoy, my love 🙂
Chickpea four is the best! I can get mine on the cheap at the farmer’s market – it’s like $1.50 for a big container!
You banana bread looks awesome – I need to go get more bananas, stat!
lucky!!!!!
YUM! I love banana bread and this looks delicious! I’ve never tried chickpea flour but I’m very intrigued!
you should def try it!
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!
yep! or order it online!!
This sounds so awesome, Lindsay! I have to try this soon. Chickpea flour is a staple in a lot of Indian dishes, so that’s something I always make sure I have on hand 🙂
oooh i should look at my indian grocery store for it then!!
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!
hahah love it!
This looks so good, I love banana bread! I have never heard of chickpea flour before though. Interesting ingredient! 🙂
you should give it a try!!
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?
Hi! I actually use ground flax seeds. I buy them pre-ground and then mix them in when baking or making granola!
Ahhh I love you for this 🙂
and i love YOU!
Wow girl! What an amazing recipe
Also, I am allll over that burger recipe 😉 OH MY
the burgers are SO good!
Beautiful photos! I haven’t tried chickpea flour but you are inspiring me…
thank you, friend 🙂
I think we are both equally obsessed with chickpea flour. Seriously, it’s amazing. And this looks great! 🙂
isn’t it just the best?!
I have a very sad looking brown banana that needs to be used up – thanks for the inspiration (again)! 😉
you’re most welcome 🙂
yes, yes, yes!! that’s all 🙂
you’re welcome, haha 🙂
Hi, I just found your blog – can’t wait to read more! Your banana bread looks great. I’m not a huge fan of bananas on their own, so this would be a great recipe for me to try!
awesome!! so glad you found me. heading over to check out yours!
I have got to try this chickpea flour. And I am drooling over the banana bread as I was days ago when you were rubbing it on tweeting faces:)
girl, you MUST try!
Ha, love how you literally get the entire loaf to yourself! The bread looks so moist (ew, gross word haha) and delish! Matty hates banana too!
and you better believe i eat the whole thing!!
I must try this
OH MY GOSH!
I must try to make this. looks amazing!
pinning
thanks girl!!
#SWOON
🙂 me too
I’ve got to look for chickpea flour!
yes!!!! so in love 🙂
Oh man, that looks amazing! I seriously really wanna try chickpea flour now! I bet some chocolate chips thrown in there would be pretty amazing too hehe 🙂
you must try it! and yes, chocolate chips for the win!!
pinned this earlier, thank you for the recipe! yummy
thanks for the pin!
*added to my recipe bank*
YUMMMMM!!!! would it be awful to put ice cream on top?
Ooh I recently started eating gluten-free and have been going mad with recipe experiments, sooooo I will DEFINITELY be giving this a try. Possibly tomorrow. Sunday baking party, anyone?
OMG I must make this!! I love chickpea flour! And I love how low sugar it is too!
Can I use entirely chickpea flour instead of a mix between chickpea/oat flour? Thanks!
i’m not sure! i’ve never tried it! in my experience it’s best to mix chickpea flour with another kind of flour though.
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
Ground flaxseed. I haven’t experimented with any other flours but they might work!
Hi , interesting recipe…..but could I skip the eggs or replace with something else?
you could try flax eggs instead
Would you have any suggestions for a substitute for the oat flour?
if you don’t need it to be gluten free you could use regular flour
Im gonna try making these muffins today, sound so good and all the positive comments,do you have a Facebook or recipe page?