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Best Banana Bread with Oat & Whole Wheat Flour

So what exactly qualifies to be a best banana bread? If you ask me, intense banana flavour, melt-in-mouth moist, right level of sweetness & slices beautifully. Get my recipe here.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings: 10 piece
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1/2 cup oat flour finely ground *
  • 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup rice bran oil
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 bananas ripe medium sized

Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven at 175xb0C. Grease and flour a regular sized loaf tin and keep aside.
  2. *To make oat flour, grind instant oats to a fine powder in the mixer jar.
  3. In a large bowl, sift the flours along with the soda and salt. Keep aside.
  4. In another large bowl, whisk together the oil, sugar, vanilla and eggs until well combined.
  5. Peel and mash the bananas with a fork until it is a coarse puree. Mix this puree into the egg mixture.
  6. Add the dry ingredients into the wet and stir gently until there are no dry clumps of flour. Do not overmix.
  7. Pour this mixture into the prepared loaf tin. The mixture will be fairly wet, but this recipe has a longer baking time, which will yield a moist loaf of banana bread.
  8. Bake at 175C for 50-60 minutes, checking with a dry spaghetti or tester. If this comes out dry, then the loaf is baked and ready.
  9. Allow to cool in the pan for 5-7 minutes, after which, you can carefully turn it out onto a cooling rack.
  10. Allow this to cool for another 45 minutes or so, before slicing it up. This loaf yields 10 thick slices of banana bread.

Notes

Verdict: Intense banana flavour, melt-in-mouth moist, just the right level of sweetness and perfect with coffee. A little warning here - it may be very difficult to stop at a slice or two.