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Sweet: Hearty Whole Wheat & Sweet Banana Bread

Source of Recipe

Daily Recipe


List of Ingredients

Topping:
1/2 banana, chopped
1/2 cup rolled oats (not quick-cooking or instant)
1/4 cup light brown sugar

Bread:
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup light brown sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
2 ripe medium bananas
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup lowfat buttermilk
1 Tbsp. canola oil




Recipe

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a 9x5x2 1/2 inch loaf
pan with cooking spray. In small bowl, combine topping
ingredients. Set aside.

In large bowl, whisk together flours, remaining sugar, baking powder and salt to combine.

In another small bowl, mash bananas. Mix in eggs, buttermilk
and oil. Stir wet ingredients into dry ones, mixing just
until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan.

Sprinkle topping evenly over batter. Bake until knife inserted into center of bread comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Let loaf rest in pan 10 minutes. Turn out onto baking rack and cool completely. Serve or wrap in foil and use later.

Yield: 1 Loaf

Nutritional Information Per serving:
229 calories, 3 g. fat,
6 g. protein, 6 g. protein, 3 g. dietary fiber, 201 mg.
sodium.