Banana Bread
Banana Bread with Walnuts and Flaxseed
This healthy quick bread makes a hearty breakfast or snack with a scoop of yogurt or cottage cheese.
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon unsalted butter, softened, for pan
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- ½ cup whole-wheat flour
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup ground golden flaxseed
- ¾ teaspoon coarse salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg white
- ½ cup light-brown sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- ¾ cup mashed very ripe bananas (about 2 medium bananas)
- ½ cup walnuts, toasted and coarsely chopped
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan, and set aside. Whisk together the flours, flaxseed, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a medium bowl, and set aside.
- Put egg and egg white in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, and mix on medium-low speed until well combined, about 2 minutes. Add melted butter, sugar, vanilla, and bananas, and mix until combined. Add the reserved flour mixture, and mix on low speed until well incorporated, about 10 seconds. Stir in walnuts.
- Pour batter into buttered pan. Bake until golden brown and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean, about 35 minutes. Let cool slightly in pan on a wire rack. Invert bread to unmold; reinvert, and let cool completely on rack.