This Coconut Banana Bread is gluten-free. Nearly all of the recipes listed below are gluten-free, not deliberately, however simply due to what we cook dinner, and eat. I noticed, although, that this web site was needing extra gluten-free baking recipes, so I’ve have been experimenting with some various flours.
I used coconut flour on this loaf. After which, simply to up the coconut ante, I additionally used coconut sugar, and flaked coconut, too. The result’s a deliciously tropical, moist loaf. What I really like about it? It is fairly guilt-free! No oil, minimal sugar, excessive in fibre, protein, and heart-healthy fat. It is low in energy, too, however excessive within the good carbs that give that good power.
Banana bread is, after all, a tasty method to make use of up overly ripe bananas. It is also very fast to combine up a loaf of this fast bread and pop it within the oven.
As with most baking, it makes your own home odor great. And it is an ideal snack for a packed lunch or afternoon espresso break. Or simply once you need one thing just a bit bit candy. A complete loaf freezes very properly, however you too can wrap the slices individually for handy lunch packing.
About Coconut Flour
Coconut flour is made out of strong coconut that’s floor right into a effective powder. Because of this, it has a slight coconut style and perfume, so it really works properly when that’s fascinating, like this banana bread, or these yummy Blueberry Coconut Waffles.
Coconut flour is fairly great, nutrition-wise. It is gluten-free, sure, nevertheless it’s additionally excessive in fibre, protein, and the helpful fat that coconuts are recognized for.
Nevertheless, that is flour that may be a little bit difficult to work with till you get used to it. It’s totally absorbent flour as a result of it is extremely dry. For that reason, you have to a lot much less of it in recipes as in comparison with wheat flour. You additionally will want extra eggs, and this recipe has 5. That many eggs make the loaf even larger in protein and eliminates the necessity for any oil or added fats.
About Coconut Sugar
Coconut sugar is made out of the sap of the flower buds of coconut palm bushes. It is brown in color and comparable in flavour to brown sugar. It does not style like coconut. There is no such thing as a actual dietary profit to utilizing coconut sugar versus cane sugar. It is refined sugar and you’ll simply use brown or white sugar as an alternative, in equal portions. Discover out extra about completely different types of sugar right here: Are sure varieties of sugar more healthy than others?
I like utilizing coconut or brown sugar simply because I like a darker loaf and a contact of caramel flavour. This coconut banana bread does not include a variety of sugar, only a quarter of a cup.
Need to attempt one other scrumptious Banana Bread? Take a look at this recipe for Maui Banana Bread, or attempt one other gluten-free loaf: Buckwheat Banana Bread.
