Clean Eating Banana Bread (Classic Recipe)

Looking for a Classic Clean Eating Banana Bread that the family will love? This banana bread recipe is simple Clean Eating at it's best.  Made old school style with a few real food ingredients that you most probably already have in your kitchen, a mixing bowl and a wooden spoon. This recipe has no surprises and I guarantee that you will be making it again and again.

Clean Eating Banana Bread

When we started cutting processed foods in our home, I went overboard.

I bought every exotic ingredient and tried the most ridiculous recipes. My family dreaded new dishes and honestly, my food tasted horrible. I fell for every new proclaimed wonder food on the market. And it sucked. I knew I had to find a balance that would work for our family or I was going to end up quitting.

I was disappointed with myself because my kids wouldn't eat lentil casserole like 'those other Moms Kids'. And secretly, even though I showed a brave face at the dinner table, I didn't like those foods either.

I decided to go about it my way and forget about what other people were doing. Clean Eating isn't complicated. Its simply a common sense approach to eating real, unprocessed food. As a mom I know how important it is that the food you make is not only healthy but tastes good too. No point in spending time and money creating a dish only to scrape it in the bin later. It's really disheartening.

I want my kids to like what I'm serving; food is meant to be enjoyed, not fought over.

Our Real Food lifestyle began with tweaking the food we were already eating and introducing a couple classic Clean Eating Recipes along the way. And it worked. By making a few small changes, we were easily able to clean up our diet by at least 80% without a fuss.

Having a few Classic Clean Eating Recipes that you know your family likes makes the job of cutting processed foods a whole lot easier.

Classic Recipes are recipes that you:

• Make regularly
• Often know by heart (or will soon)
• Can Guarantee your family will like
• Are Certain that will turn out perfectly every time, and
• Generally have the ingredients in your kitchen at all times.

This Clean Eating Banana Bread Recipe is all of the above.

How To Eat Banana Bread

Personally we love this covered in cinnamon whipped butter and nothing else! I've also toasted this in the past and we've had it for breakfast with some sliced banana on top and a drizzle of maple syrup. One thing, if you're going to try toasting this do it under the grill and not in a toaster. The reason for this is that the sugar in the loaf burns quicker than the other ingredients and you'll be able to toast it not so close to the element if it's under the grill.

Baking Tips

• Use one bowl for mixing - it makes clean up easy
• The best bananas to use are the over ripe ones with the brown spots
• You can substitute the honey for maple syrup or raw sugar
• Double up on the recipe whenever you can and freeze one loaf for later

Banana Bread Additions And Substitutions

There are lots of things you can add to this banana bread:

• Nuts - You could add a cup of chopped nuts to this bread for some extra crunch
• Maple Syrup - You can substitute maple syrup for the honey. The overall flavor will be slightly less sweet
• Flour - I've used wholemeal flour in this recipe but you could use Einkorn or Buckwheat if you want a lighter colored loaf
• Cloves - Substituting the cinnamon for ground cloves (or nutmeg) gives you a twist on this classic bread

Storing And Freezing Banana Bread

This bread stores well in a tin so the air can't get to it. I keep this for 2-3 days only so it doesn't go dry, although really it's usually gone before that.

You can freeze this bread too. If you're going to freeze it, slice it up before you freeze it so you only need to defrost what you need at the time. It can be hard to get the slices apart once they're frozen so learn from my mistakes and put a piece of parchment in between each slice so you're not sitting there with a knife trying to prise the frozen slices apart :)

More Clean Eating Breads And Loafs

• Lemon curd loaf
• Carrot and walnut loaf
• Sweetcorn loaf
• Spiced pumpkin loaf
• Date and banana loaf

How To Make Clean Eating Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 4 Medium Bananas Very ripe and mashed
• 2 Large Eggs
• 1 ½ Cup Wholewheat flour
• ¾ tsp Baking soda
• ¼ Cup Butter Melted
• ¼ Cup Honey
• 1 tsp Vanilla bean paste Or vanilla extract
• ½ tsp Cinnamon
• ½ tsp Salt

Instructions

• Preheat oven to Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C), and butter a 4x8-inch loaf pan
• Add all ingredients into a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon or spatula until just combined. Pour into loaf tin and level
• Bake for 50 - 60 minutes. or until a tester inserted into the centre comes out clean. Check after 45 minutes because oven temperatures can vary
• Remove from oven and let cool in the pan for a few minutes. Then remove the banana bread from the pan and let cool completely before slicing

Clean Eating Banana Bread Recipe