Walnut and Banana bread

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Walnut and banana bread

Are you dumping sweet things like chocolate, cakes or biscuits? You can still enjoy a delicious snack try Sarah Ann’s delicious walnut and banana bread

1 hour 15 minutes

Serves 6

Sarah Ann Macklin

Recipe by: Sarah Ann Macklin | Nutritionist

It’s essential to make healthy choices to support our physical and mental wellbeing – junk food is low in nutrients as well as high in calories, fat, and sugar. These unhealthy ingredients can contribute to weight gain, obesity, and other health problems, including cancer. By giving up junk food, we can improve our overall health and longevity.

Sarah Ann Macklin

Recipe by: Sarah Ann Macklin | Nutritionist

It’s essential to make healthy choices to support our physical and mental wellbeing – junk food is low in nutrients as well as high in calories, fat, and sugar. These unhealthy ingredients can contribute to weight gain, obesity, and other health problems, including cancer. By giving up junk food, we can improve our overall health and longevity.

Ingredients

  • 200g of self-raising flour (you can use buckwheat flour if you’d like it to be gluten free)
  • 3 organic eggs
  • 1 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda
  • 50g of walnuts, chopped
  • Cinnamon
  • 3 over-ripe bananas
  • 150ml of unsweetened almond milk

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Method

  1. Pre-heat a fan oven to 180 degrees
  2. Grease your 1-litre loaf tin with butter and line it with baking paper
  3. Mash 2 and a half bananas in a bowl, leave the other half for decoration at the end
  4. Add the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate soda in a mixing bowl
  5. In another bowl, crack the eggs and whisk together. Add in the mashed banana, cinnamon and almond milk and combine all together
  6. Add the wet mixture to your dry mixture and mix together gently.
  7. Pour into your tin
  8. Top with sliced banana and your walnuts
  9. Bake for 40-45 minutes. Test with a knife, if it comes our clean it is ready
  10. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from the tin.
  11. Top with greek yogurt and honey!

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