Whole Wheat Banana Blueberry Bread

By Hoochsmom

Ingredients

• 1/2 C butter, softened
• 1/2 C brown sugar, packed
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2 about 2 large over-ripe bananas cut into chunks- 1 lb weight before peeling
• 1/4 honey
• 2 eggs, room temperature
• 1 3/4 C whole wheat flour
• 1 C fresh or frozen blueberries + 2 tsp flour
• 1/2 C old fashioned or quick-cooking oats
• additional brown sugar and oats for top

Details

Servings 6
Adapted from heatherlikesfood.com

Preparation

Step 1

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Grains For Your Brain: Whole Wheat Banana Blueberry Bread & Giveaway!

By now you probably know that I’m a major carb addict and I’m willing to bet that a good portion of you would gladly take your place beside me at a carb addict anonymous meeting. Bread is good stuff, right? But, the crazy thing is that it’s so often villainized in the guidelines of fad diets that we (myself absolutely included) automatically equate bread with weight gain. It’s ridiculous!

Without grains our body can’t make the energy needed to function. Simple as that. There are thousands of ways to work grains into your meals like this

for up-to-date information on grains and our bodies, and recipes from some of America’s favorite chefs and moms. It’s recommended that adults eat 6 servings of grains/day, half of those coming from whole grains like whole wheat, quinoa, and brown rice. So let’s start by getting a serving of whole wheat with this super moist whole wheat banana blueberry bread!

Now, onto this bread. In all honesty I wouldn’t usually use exclusively whole wheat flour in a quick bread recipe for fear that it would be too heavy, dense and dry. But this recipe cured that fear 100%!  It’s so moist, just lightly sweet and perfect for a filling breakfast or snack.

Beat together the sugar and butter until smooth and add in some banana and vanilla. Mix until smooth again and then mix in your eggs honey, salt and baking soda.

Toss in some oats and some whole wheat flour.

And mix just slightly until there are no more dry spots– over mixing the batter can cause the finished bread to be very dry.

Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes, cover with foil to keep the top from browning too much and cook for an additional 10-15 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Whole Wheat Banana Blueberry Bread

1 3/4 C whole wheat flour

additional brown sugar and oats for top

Preheat your oven to 350°F. Lightly grease an 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" or 9" x 5" loaf pan.

In a large bowl, beat together the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the vanilla, baking soda, salt, and bananas, beating until well combined. The mixture will be fairly smooth, with some scattered small chunks of banana.

Beat in the honey and eggs.

Add the flour, then the oats, stirring until smooth. Combine blueberries with 2 tsp of flour and gently fold into the batter.

Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing the top. Sprinkle with additional oats and brown sugar if desired. Let it rest at room temperature for 10 minutes.

Bake the bread for 50 minutes, then gently lay a piece of aluminum foil across the top, to prevent over-browning. Bake for an additional 10 to 15 minutes, then remove the bread from the oven; a long toothpick or cake tester inserted into the center should come out clean.

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so you never miss a single delicious recipe! Also, I love, love, LOVE comments and it would be great to hear from you! Thanks for visiting! xo - Heather

Quinoa Salad with apples, mandarin oranges and walnuts, with yogurt/orange juice dressing. Oatmeal with dried cranberries stirred in. Flaxseed sprinkled onto almost everything. These recipes look delicious.

Recently I’ve been starting every morning with oatmeal, almondmilk and fruit! Not to mention my much beloved coffee. But oatmeal is simple, cheap, quick and easy, and can be dressed up or down depending on how you feel. For added “feel-good-ness” I like to add ginger, cinnamon, or other warm spices. While it’s still warm out, I’m gonna try an overnight oat preparation in the refrigerator because I think it’s probably more weather appropriate while it’s hot out now! Or you could post a recipe for overnight oats?

We eat oatmeal most mornings and I make some quinoa for lunch a lot! I know there is a lot more, but can’t think right now!

I eat oatmeal with whole wheat granola sprinkled on top every morning. Thanks!

1. Steel cut oats with barley & rye flakes added at the end of cooking.

2. Zucchini and corn whole wheat fritters

4. Whole wheat pumpkin waffles with vanilla yogurt and cooked apple slices.

5. Casseroles & stir-fries with brown rice.

I like to make quinoa salad with fresh veggies

It’s a lot easier to eat whole grains these days than it was not all that many years ago, with products like whole-grain pasta and white whole wheat flour readily available and affordable. Now that we’ve begun using things like brown rice rather than white rice, we find that we really like the flavor and texture of whole-grain foods. My favorite way to enjoy whole grains is probably using oats in baking.

I usually have oatmeal for breakfast and I am always adding oatmeal to my homemade cookies.

i add it with cereal fruit and lots of sugar

My all-time favorite way to eat whole grains is in the morning as hot cereal. I buy an organic 7 or 9 grain mix and eat it with a little brown sugar and butter.

Heather B

I love to make homemade granola bars.

Steel cut oatmeal for nreakfast and kamut or farrow in the place of rice at dinner. When we do have rice it is usually short grain brown rice.

I’ve been using healthier grains like quinoa and buckwheat. Thankfully, my son loves both!

We eat buckwheat brown rice, and whole wheat bread.

We enjoy grains by adding them to muffin and quick bread recipes. We also like to eat brown rice and whole grains

I love frosted mini wheats I eat them every night to get my whole grains!

I make my own granola — easy way to control sugar and get good grains.

I get my family to eat whole grains by making sandwiches out of whole wheat bread and oatmeal in the mornings for breakfast.

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