Healthy Lemon Blueberry Bread {Classic Recipe}

Fresh zingy lemons and sweet juicy blueberries: This healthy lemon blueberry bread is my Clean version of an old classic. Serve this for breakfast piled high with fruit and drizzled with maple syrup, pop a slice in the kids lunch box for their morning snack or sit yourself down for those rare silent house moments with a cup of tea. This sweet bread's got ya back!

Healthy Lemon Blueberry Bread

Remember when you were growing up and running through the lemon groves, sunshine beating down on you as you picnicked under lemons trees? Me neither, sadly. Lemons for us come in nets from the supermarket. Waxxed or unwaxxed, Organic or not. That's out choice. If you do remember those lemon groves, I'm crazy jealous. Really. Because I love a lemon!

What we do have is a blueberry bush that grows real blueberries which in itself the kids find pretty magical. However, the season is short and so very often I find myself buying fresh or frozen blueberries in the supermarket. Hey ho.

Regardless of where you find your fruit, who doesn't love a loaf? Bread's one of the most loved foods in out house, whether it's a crusty whole meal loaf or a sweet bread packed with fruit. Doesn't matter, we love them all!

I make this banana and blueberry loaf quite often and the kids love it, but I feel like I use banana's all the time, which in itself is fine but I fancied making more of a muffin type bread, sans the banana. And oh my! That's what this is. It's baked in a loaf tin, it looks like a loaf and feels like a muffin, and that's just fine by...all of us :)

If you're a blueberry buff or a lemon lover you're gonna go crackers over this loaf. It's not hard to make this recipe and you'll feel all Summery (no matter what the weather outside) as you're grating the lemon zest and filling your home with the scent of lemons.

What's In This Bread?

Healthy, Real food ingredients. Yay!

Lemons

Unwaxxed lemons are the ones you want, presumably you don't want to be zesting wax in to your loaf so grab the unwaxxed ones! Organic if you can find them, but bright yellow and fresh looking! You don't want them to be rock hard, just firm and not squishy :)

Zest the lemons first, before juicing. Work your way around them lemon trying not to get pith into the zest as it can be a little sour. I mean more sour then the lemons! After you've zested them, roll them with your palm along the worktop to soften them and get the juices flowing. Then cut it in two and it should be easy to juice.

Blueberries

Really you need to use fresh blueberries for this loaf as the frozen ones, much as I love them, have to high a water for them to work here. Although fresh blueberries burst when you cook them, they contain far less water and so don't make the loaf batter too wet.

Flour

I've used white spelt here, you can use whole meal, Einkorn or Buckwheat four. The only flour I wouldn't recommend is coconut flour as it's to absorbent and upsets the rest of the ingredients.

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Honey

Thank goodness for bees giving us honey! We love honey you won't be surprised to hear, and although I usually use maple syrup in my baking as we find it slightly less sweet than honey, in this recipe, honey works better. Look out for 100% pure honey with nothing else added. I

If your honey is thick, add a couple of tablespoons of boiling water to it to loosen it before adding it to the recipe. Let the hot water cool down though for a few minutes, before adding it to the eggs to beat!

Substitutions For Healthy Lemon Blueberry Bread

• Flour - I've used white spelt unbleached flour in this recipe. Spelt is a lovely grain to bake with and using the white version keeps this loaf looking bright and light. You can use Einkorn, Buckwheat or Wholemeal flour as a substitute if you prefer. If you're going to use whole meal flour, consider using a 50/50 mix of whole grain and one of the other flours. Whole meal can be heavier in breads and loafs so this will help to keep it lighter
• Honey - I've used honey to sweeten this bread, but you could also use pure maple syrup. Check the label to make sure it is pure, some are maple flavored syrup which is not Clean!

Baking Tips

This is a fairly easy loaf to bake, but here's some tips!

• If you want a prettier looking loaf save some of the blueberries and sprinkle them on the top of the loaf just before you bake it. They'll stay on top of the loaf and you'll see them when it comes out of the oven
• To make sure your loaf is cooked, put a skewer or a sharp knife into the middle of it and if the skewer comes out with no cake batter on it, it's done. If there is cake batter on it, pop it back into the oven for a few minutes longer
• Let the loaf cool down fully before you slice it. It will be a cleaner, neater slice if you do!

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How To Store This Lemon Blueberry Bread

This will last you for 3 days if you keep it in an airtight tin. This lemon and blueberry loaf is lovely and moist so while it needs an airtight tin, there's no need to tightly wrap it in food wrap.

I don't recommend you freeze this loaf. For the same reason I use fresh blueberries and not frozen, the freezer does this loaf no favours so keep it out of the deep freeze!

More Healthy Loafs And Breads

• Banana date loaf
• Lemon curd loaf
• Carrot and walnut loaf
• Spiced pumpkin bread
• Sweetcorn bread
• Banana and blueberry bread

How To Make Healthy Lemon Blueberry Bread

Ingredients

• 1¼ Cups Flour
• ½ Cup Butter Melted
• ½ Cup Honey
• 2 Eggs Whisked
• 1½ Cups Fresh blueberries
• 1 Lemon Juiced and zested
• 1 tsp Baking powder

Instructions

• Get your oven heated up to 190° and line a loaf tin with grease proof paper
• In a large bowl, add the whisked eggs and honey and using beaters, beat until the mixture is light and fluffy
• Add in the butter and beat until it's all combined well
• Put the juice from the lemons in the batter, along with the zest from the lemon and combine. Finally add in the flour and baking powder and using a wooden spoon, combine until just done and then fold the blueberries in to the mix, trying not to break them as you do. They will burst anyway when they're cooking, so not to worry if you do break them when mixing!
• Bake for 25 minutes, or until you can put a sharp knife into the middle of the loaf and it comes out clean

More Healthy Blueberry Recipes

• Mini blueberry pancakes
• Lychee blueberry eyeballs!
• Blueberry yogurt parfait
• Blueberry breakfast cake
• Blueberries and cream oatmeal

Healthy Lemon Blueberry Bread Recipe