This delicious, low carb banana bread is only sweetened with a few ripe bananas and it’s so delicious, super satisfying and perfectly subtle. Grain-free, dairy-free, paleo and keto-friendly.
I don’t exactly love straight-up bananas, personally, but Mark often requests having a bunch on hand. I will occasionally add them to our organic CSA box (community supported agriculture) that gets delivered to the house each week. But, often, he won’t eat all of them and then they get a bit over ripe. YUCK! Literally one of my least favorite things, in the entire world. Usually I just peel them and freeze for smoothies, but this most recent time, it felt like a perfect reason to make banana bread, a treat I haven’t made in maybe nearly a decade. (not joking)
For my low key sweet taste buds, the ripe bananas are the perfect sweetener – nothing extra needed. I find for my palate, the subtle sweetness from a ripe, in-season fruit, some coconut cream, super dark chocolate or even just caramelized, roasted veggies – these are often plenty sweet for me to satisfy that important taste. I absolutely don’t believe sweet is a taste that needs to be avoided but redefining the relationship that we have with sweet is the ultimate goal. These beautiful, nuanced, naturally sweet flavors from real whole foods can easily get missed when we flood our taste buds constantly with sugar or sugar alternatives. This is what leads to the constant sugar cravings and needing more and more sweet stuff. Imagine if a piece of fruit were enough!! Talk about taking away the power a food has over us (ahem, this is what sugar is best at) and experiencing true food freedom.
Gluten Free Banana Bread
If reducing your sugar intake is still fairly new for yo and you are worried bananas as a sweetener might not cut it for you, I challenge you to give it a try and then you can always consider a light drizzle of honey over your warm, toasted banana bread. Or you can always add a tablespoon or two of coconut sugar or date sugar to the batter. Some dark chocolate chips might also be a nice addition to the bread, too, if that’s your thing. Mmmmmm.
The most important step is the super ripe bananas, they bring the flavor and the sweetness here. Regular ripe bananas will be far less sweet. If your bananas have green tips, that’s awesome for a lower sugar fruit option, but they tend to be more starchy and less sweet and you definitely won’t be able to mash them up.
Next, the almond flour is the star here!! This recipe was developed and tested with blanched almond flour. Be sure to go with a blanched fine almond flour, an almond meal with the skins included in the flour will likely results in a slightly different texture. If you can’t have almond flour, you can experiment with another nut flour, like cashew flour, macadamia flour or hazelnut flour. Sunflower seed flour may work, but be aware that the baking soda combined with sunflower seed flour can result in a green color due to chlorophyll present in the seeds, half the baking soda and add 1 teaspoon of cream of tartar. You might also try oat flour or an all-purpose gluten-free flour, while not grain-free or low carb, these might work for some of you, they *should* substitute 1:1. Please note – I have not tested ANY of these, so experiment at your own risk and please report back if you do. You CANNOT swap coconut flour for almond flour as a 1:1, they are totally different flours and they behave and react completely different. Coconut flour is more absorbent. A good starting point if opting for coconut flour would be to use 1 cup of tapioca flour and 1 cup of coconut flour in place of the 2 cups of almond flour and add two additional eggs. Again, these are educated guesses, this HAS NOT been tested on my end.
Recipe]: Banana Bread
Add in your favorite nut or seed, walnuts, pecans or hemp seeds are really great options. You can also add in dark chocolate chips or chunks, cacao nibs, cranberries, raisins or other dried fruit. You can also add cut up bananas to the top of your loaf just before baking.
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We know what you’re thinking. There’s no way banana bread can be keto, right?! In its traditional form that is correct, but you should know that we would never leave you hanging and out of luck when a craving strikes! So, we transformed traditional banana bread into a low carb option with the help of a few simple swaps and secret ingredients.
The result was a super tasty keto banana bread recipe that’s free from artificial flavors, refined sugar, gluten, and dairy! However, it’s every bit as soft and fluffy as the bread you grew up eating. Sounds too good to be true, right? Just consider it a dream come true. In no time at all, you can be munching on your new favorite breakfast or snack with this kid-friendly recipe.
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As you probably already know, the keto diet is one in which carbohydrate consumption is reduced to 50 grams a day or less. (Source) That said, a single medium-sized banana contains roughly 25 grams of carbs. That’s half of the allotted consumption in a single piece of fruit, and most banana bread recipes contain more than one large banana! So, needless to say, bananas themselves along with banana bread are not entirely keto-friendly.
A way in which you can enjoy all the sweet flavor of bananas without all the carbs or using banana extract. For this recipe, we included a single banana, but there are a few twists.
First: Use an underripe banana instead of overly ripe bananas as you might expect. This is because underripe (aka greener) bananas have more resistant starch which is also known as fiber. This fiber content is subtracted from the total carbohydrate count of the bread to find the net carbs which are what count when it comes to keto.
How To Make Keto Banana Bread
Second: Freeze the fruit. By freezing then thawing and mashing the banana we are able to extract the liquid and incorporate it into the dough for a well-rounded banana flavor with way less carbs. It’s like bread baking magic!
Once frozen, we’ll let the banana thaw in the fridge (or warm it in the microwave), and mash it in a bowl, making sure to reserve the liquid/juice for the bread.
Pro-Tip: Every flour measures different, and measuring cups can be inconsistent. So, for the best results, use a food scale to measure the grams!
Low Carb Keto Banana Bread
Note: We think this keto banana bread is plenty sweet as it is. However, to enhance the taste even further, feel free to add ¼ cup of monk fruit sweetener! It’s one of our favorite natural sugar options because it has a low glycemic index and no stranger aftertaste.
Here at Cotter Crunch we test, retest, and test all our recipes again to ensure they’re perfect for you. So, naturally along the way we discover a few tips and tricks to make each recipe even easier for you!
Remove Any Clumps. Take your time when mixing the flours, and be careful to remove any clumps that might develop to allow for a smooth batter and even flavor.
The Best Low Carb Banana Bread Recipe Nut Free And Gluten Free
Don’t Overmix. Incorporate all of your ingredients until they’re just combined. Continuing to mix will only result in tough, dry keto banana bread!
Add Banana On Top. Slice half of a small banana (or add another ½ if you aren’t strictly Keto), and place it on top of the bread for a pretty presentation and extra texture.
Cover with Foil. If after 45 minutes your bread still has not set, cover it with foil, rotate it in the oven, and continue to bake for another 5-10 minutes or until it is golden brown on top and a toothpick can be inserted into the center and comes out clean.
Low Carb Banana Bread Recipe (gluten Free)
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