Sarah’s banana loaf
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Total time: 45 min • Prep: 10 min • Cook: 35 min • Serves: 12 • Difficulty: Easy
Quick and easy, with no added sugar, just natural sweetness from fresh dates and bananas, this loaf keeps well in the freezer and is a tasty way to use up any ripe bananas languishing in your fruit bowl. Recipe by our WW Ambassador Sarah. Follow her on Instagram @sarahs_recipes.
Ingredients
Fresh dates
6 individual, pitted and chopped
Rolled oats, dry
200 g
Banana(s)
5 medium, ripe
Egg(s)
3 medium
Vanilla bean extract, alcohol free
2 tsp
Baking powder
2 tsp
Ground cinnamon
1½ tsp
Instructions
1
Preheat oven to 180°C. Lightly spray a 10cm x 20cm loaf tin with oil and line with baking paper. Combine dates and 1 tablespoon boiling water in a microwave-safe bowl. Cover and microwave on High (100%) for 1 minute. Mash dates with a fork.
2
Process oats, 4 bananas, eggs, vanilla, baking powder, cinnamon and date mixture in a food processor until smooth.
3
Spoon mixture into prepared tin and smooth surface with back of a spoon. Slice remaining banana in half lengthways and arrange over top of loaf. Bake for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
4
Set loaf aside in tin for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool. Cut into 12 slices and serve.
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