Healthy Banana Bread Recipe
Recipe
Ingredients
INGREDIENTS
2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 2/3 cup honey-crunch wheat germ 1/2 cup oats, uncooked 1/4 cup brown sugar, packed 1 tbsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 tsp baking soda 10 tbsp light corn oil spread/1-1/2 1 sticks 1 1/2 cup mashed bananas, about 3 med 6 oz can frozen apple-juice 1 concentrate, thawed 1/2 cup egg substitute, thawed 1/3 cup walnuts, chopped 1 tsp vanilla extract
Recipe
Preparation
Directions: About 2 Hours before serving, or early in the day: 1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease 9"x5" loaf pan. In large bowl, mix first 7 ingredients. With pastry blender, cut in corn-oil spread until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in bananas, undiluted apple-juice concentrate, egg substitute, walnuts, and vanilla just until flour is moistened. Spoon batter into pan. 2. Bake 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted into center of bread comes out clean. Cool bread in pan on wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan and cool slightely. Serve warm, or cool completely to serve later. Makes 18 servings.
Each serving: About 180 calories, 5 g. fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 135 mg sodium.
Diabetic Exchanges: 1 Starch, 1 Fruit, 1 Fat From Files of Alice 2/03/93
Servings:
18
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