Updated 10 Dep 2025
Adapted from: Modern Minimalism
Ingredients:
Wet ingredients:
1. 500g (approx. 5-6) over-ripe banana
2. 1/4 cup olive oil
3. 50g honey (30g for reduced sweetness or totally leave the honey out if you are serving special diet needs)
4. 1/4 cup Greek yogurt (2% fat) optional)
5. 2 eggs
Dry ingredients:
6. 1 3/4 white whole wheat flour or
- 110g wholewheat flour (3/4 cup) (46% of total flour content)
- 125g plain wheat flour (1 cup)
7. 1 tsp baking powder
8. 1 tsp baking soda
9. 1 tsp vanilla powder and/or 1 tsp cinnamon powder
10. A dash of salt (optional - I normally leave this out)
Mix-ins (optional):
11. 1/2 cup red walnuts, almonds, cashew nuts, etc. (no need to chop) (optional)
12. 1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional) + 2 TBS chocolate chips for sprinkling on top
Directions:
1. Pre-heat oven to 160 deg C.
2. Combine all the wet ingredients: Mash 500g bananas, 1/4 cup olive oil and 50g honey and mix well with a handheld mixer or by hand.
2. Whip in 2 eggs one at a time until they are fully incorporated.
3. In a separate bowl, combine all dry ingredients: mix vanilla powder, baking powder, salt, 110g wholewheat flour, 125g flour and mix them into the liquid mixture.
5. Add in nuts and mix well (optional)
6. Pour into a 10 x 25 cm bread pan laid with baking paper.
7. Bake for 60-75 minutes to an hour at 160 deg C until they are golden and fragrant and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out totally clean (or when a food thermometer inserted into the centre reaches 94 deg C.)
8. Take them out and let them cool down on a rack for 30 mins before slicing.
Additional Information:
The over-ripe bananas at the kitchen counter are calling out for me. This is another way to get rid of them :-)
CN loves banana bread and while visiting me in Denmark, she requested to bake this bread. When I make this for my mom, I will omit the honey.
Store-bought banana bread is super sweet and unbearable for us. This is a reduced sugar banana bread. The original recipe calls for 70g of sugar, but I have reduced it to 50g and it still tasted sweet enough. I brought it over to my Bible study group and they all liked it. They like the fact that it is not super duper sweet. This is a very nutritious snack (apart from the butter) as it contains egg, bananas, almonds, cinnamon and wholewheat flour.
I have to bake it for an hour instead of 45 minutes, as the bread is way too wet when I baked it for 45 mins.
Next time I will use oil and mix it this way: in another mixing bowl, add 4 eggs and 60g sugar and mix well. Add 340g mashed banana, 75g vegetable oil and mix well.
References:
The over-ripe bananas are calling out for me :-)
In a large mixing bowl, add 500g bananas (5-6)
Mash well with a fork or a hand-mixer or blender.
Add 1/4 cup of olive oil
Add 2 eggs and 1/4 cup of Greek yogurt (2% fat) optional)
Mix until just combined.
In a separate bowl, add 1 3/4 cup of white whole wheat flour (235g) and 1 teaspoon of vanilla powder and/or cinnamon powder.
Add 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 1 teaspoon of baking soda and mix well and mix well.
Add to the wet ingredients.
Blend until just combined.
Add in 1/2 cup of walnuts or almonds (optional).
Add in 1/2 cup of chocolate chips (optional).
Mix well.
Lay a baking paper on the bread loaf pan.
Pour the batter into the bread loaf pan.
Insert the food oven thermometer if you have one.
Bake in the oven at 160 deg C for 60-75 mins or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out totally clean.
Let it rest for 10 minutes.
Let it rest for another 15-20 mins before slicing.
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