Healthy Banana Oatmeal Bread (5 Ingredients)
I’m always on the lookout for quick simple snacks that require very few ingredients that are all whole and you probably already have in your kitchen. This definitely hits those spots.
I’m going to greatly stress to you that this is not a traditional banana bread recipe. As you can tell from the ingredient list, it contains a very minimal amount of sweetener. If you would like a traditional banana bread recipe, please check out my delicious Super Moist Banana Bread. You will not be disappointed.
What you can do, is toss in sugar free chocolate chips, nuts, raisins or seeds to add some flavor.To finish this snack off, I like to serve it with some almond or peanut butter spread on top. Again, this is a protein and nutrient dense snack. And comes together so quickly in your blender or food processor. You can also use oat flour and mix the ingredients in a bowl.
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Healthy Banana Oatmeal Bread
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 medium bananas, over ripe
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/4 cup maple syrup (or honey)
Optional Add Ins:
- 1 tsp vanilla, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 cup chocolate chips, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, 1/2 cup chopped dates or raisins
Instructions
- PLEASE NOTE: This is not a traditionally sweet banana bread. There is minimal sweetener used here. This is a healthy breakfast or snack.
- Preheat oven to 350° F and line a 9×5" loaf pan with parchment paper.
- Add all of the ingredients, in the order above, to your blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Mixture will be liquidy and that's okay.
- Pour the batter into your pan and bake for around 40 minutes or until toothpick comes out mostly clean. Allow bread to cool in the pan at least 20 minutes prior to transferring to cooling rack. And then allow to cool another 20 minutes prior to slicing.
Notes
Nutrition
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I added 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 2 tbsp flaxseed and some Walnuts and it’s amazing!
Hi Mona, sounds delicious! I’m so glad you loved the recipe!
My new go-to banana bread recipe! LOVE IT! Thank you so much!
I’m so glad you fell in love! Thanks for the kind feedback!
I’m about to make this again, what a simple recipe to follow with very few ingredients but so delicious. First time I was intrigued and a little skeptical of how it’d taste but boy was I wrong! Even my sweet tooth friends could not believe it was oatmeal instead of normal flour nor that it was honey instead of sugar. I love this, thank you!
I rarely write reviews, but this is my go-to banana bread recipe, so I felt compelled. LOL
I make it almost every week.
I’m a member of Weight Watchers, so to make it point/calorie friendly, I bake it in a silicone individual loaf pans.
I use 3 TBSP of
Mrs. Butterworth sugar-free syrup and to make it sweeter, 2 TBSP of Great Value no calorie granulated sweetener.
It’s 1 point per loaf.
To serve, I heat it up and drizzle a little more syrup on top.
Thank you for sharing your tasty recipe.
One of my favourite
I bake up two loaves, slice them up and freeze in slices. Perfect for that moment you want something sweet
I love it with honey. I think the honey adds flavour.
Six ingredients you lying snake! But yummy!
I added 1 tsp. cinnamon and 1/2 cup of diced apple to the batter and chopped walnuts on top. We liked it very much.
Hi Nancy! Yay, i’m glad you loved it!
I just made it today. it tasted really good (I like breads a bit sweeter so I added a little bit of chocolate inside in the batter and that elevated the taste) but one problem I had was that the top did not look like urs at all it wasn’t crumbly or airy just looked a bit weird. I’m not really able to explain it that well but I hope u get what I mean. could u pls tell me why that may have happened (for context I used 3 ripe bananas 2 were pretty ripe but one wasn’t too ripe. the rest of the recipe was the same I added a bit of cinnamon and vanilla, for the oats I used quackery instant oats and I added just a bit of chopped packaged chocolate as I didn’t have any choco chips, walnuts on top)
It’s a heavy bread. Not like regular banana bread.
Sometimes I substitute 1 cup of unsweetened applesauce for the banana, plus one cup chopped apple, and 2 teaspoons ground cinnnamon.
Delicious!
Just made it except I used bananas I froze weeks ago and let them defrost in the fridge a couple of hours. I used OAT flour from Organic rolled oats I made last week in the Vitamix, so it was easy to blend with my very powerful hand mixer and I used a 1/2 teaspoon baking powder and I folded in dried berries. Also used Vanilla Extract. Came out fantastic.
Can you make this bread and your other bread recipes in a bread machine
This is so delicious. I am making it again today. Adding chopped almonds. Thank you.