My dog, Cookie, is wild for zucchini. Also cauliflower, broccoli, kale, and cabbage. You could say that my pup has a healthy appetite. This morning, I left a slice of zucchini bread on my desk where I thought she couldn’t reach. Then I heard some scuffling, followed by some gobbling. She swiped that slice of bread and ate half before I could grab it.
This dog is my soulmate, I tell you. I captured it on video, if you’d like to see it. That was all to say that this zucchini bread recipe is Cookie and Kate approved. It’s fluffy and moist, lightly spiced, and full of confetti-like green flecks of zucchini.
If you’ve enjoyed zucchini bread before, let me point out a few differences between my recipe and the standard recipes. Here are five reasons to love this healthier zucchini bread:
Low Carb Zucchini Bread (coconut Flour)
If you love this zucchini bread, you’ll also enjoy my banana bread, apple muffins, carrot muffins or banana muffins, you’re going to love this one. Don’t miss the maple-sweetened blueberry muffins in my cookbook!
This fluffy zucchini bread recipe is made healthier with whole grains, honey (or maple syrup) and coconut oil instead of butter. It is easily made vegan and/or gluten free (see notes). Recipe yields 1 loaf.
*A note on oils: I love coconut oil here. I used unrefined coconut oil and can hardly taste it in the final product. Olive oil will lend an herbal note to the bread, if you’re into that. Vegetable oil has a neutral flavor, but the average vegetable/canola oil is highly processed, so I recommend using cold-pressed sunflower oil or grapeseed oil if possible.
Easy Rhubarb Zucchini Bread
Make it vegan: Use maple syrup instead of honey, replace the eggs with flax eggs and choose non-dairy milk (I used almond milk) or water.
Make it gluten free: I haven’t tried myself, but I have heard from a reader that Bob’s Red Mill’s all-purpose gluten-free mix worked well here.
Make it lower in fat: I would argue that this bread contains a healthy amount of fat, but you can replace the oil with applesauce if you’re following a low-fat diet.
Diabetic Zucchini Bread (low Sugar, Low Calorie, Low Fat ) Recipe
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Low carb recipes that you find with fewer carbs than this recipe also use almond flour, coconut flour, or some alternative, and use alternative sweeteners.
Of the fake sugars so I stick with sugar or honey for most of my sweet recipes, and rarely use applesauce. Each serving still comes out to less than 13 carbs per serving, 10 of which are sugar, and 2.5 grams of fiber.
Healthy Zucchini Bread
Yes!!! The old school ideology is to cut out all sugar and eat minimal carbs to treat diabetes. We've come a long way since and have discovered that carbs/sugars aren't the only factor contributing to high glucose.
When it comes to diet (there are non-diet contributing factors to diabetes), an effective way to manage blood sugar is to pair your carbs with protein, fat, and fiber. As the saying goes nowadays, No naked carbs!
Almonds have a lot of fat and since we're using almond flour to cut down the carbs we're adding fat back in. Unless your dietitian has expressed concern about your fat intake, I wouldn't be too concerned with this. It's not like you're eating zucchini bread for breakfast, lunch and dinner all month.
Almond Flour Zucchini Bread
If you want to lessen the fat, swap the oil for milk. To keep it dairy free, use almond or lite coconut milk. The final product won't be as moist, but still good. The second option is to swap 1 cup of almond flour for 2 tablespoons of coconut flour. I haven't tried this with this recipe, however, this is what I do to muffins when I want them to have a softer texture more like regular flour.
Why?? The batter grabs onto the sides of the pan to rise. If the sides are greased the final product will be flatter and denser.
There's no need to peel the zucchini for zucchini bread. In fact, the dark green peeling adds an eye-catching aspect to the otherwise brown bread.
Low Sugar Zucchini Bread Recipe
A lot of recipes do require the zucchini to be squeezed of excess water but this recipe doesn't. The liquid is accounted for and it doesn't change the flavor a bit.
It does when you make it healthier than the standard version. This recipe swaps the white flour, which has no nutritional value, for almond flour, and uses less sugar than the standard version. Zucchini has a significant amount of Vitamin C, but is sensitive to heat so some is lost in the baking process.
Healthy zucchini bread is as simple as swapping the empty calories of flour for a more nutritious one, and cutting down the sugar for an exceptional healthy treat.
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Traci is currently a Masters student in Nutrition & Dietetics to become a registered dietitian. She is also a culinary arts graduate and gestational diabetes cookbook author.
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