Simple Whole Grain Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Discover this simple and delicious banana bread recipe that uses fresh-milled whole-grain flour for rich flavours and enhanced nutrition. This easy homemade banana bread is perfect for breakfast or as a healthy snack, allowing you to enjoy the goodness of ripe bananas while benefiting from the wholesome qualities of whole grains. With its delightful aroma and moist texture, this recipe is sure to become a favourite in your kitchen for nutritious baking!
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Nothing beats the comforting aroma of freshly baked banana bread. This recipe takes it up a notch by using fresh-milled whole-grain flour, adding a wholesome twist to a timeless favourite. A crowd-pleasing snack for any occasion at any time of day.
Why You’ll Love This Whole Grain Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
- Quick to whip up
- High in fibre from whole grain flour
- Reduces waste of old bananas
- Adaptable ingredients
- Rich in chocolatey goodness
What Are The Benefits Of Fresh-Milled Whole-Grain Flour?
Nutrient-Rich: Fresh-milled whole-grain flour retains all the nutrients found in whole grains, including fibre, vitamins, and minerals, which are often lost in commercially processed flours.
Better Flavour: Fresh-milled flour has a deeper and more complex flavour compared to store-bought flour, taking your baked goods to the next level.
Healthier: Whole grain flour contains the bran, germ, and endosperm of the grain, providing a balanced nutritional profile, aiding digestion and contributing to a robust microbiome.
More Fun: Milling your own flour is fun! It allows you to experiment with different grains and create custom blends tailored to your baking needs or interests.
Fresher: Freshly milled flour doesn’t contain preservatives or additives, offering a more natural and wholesome ingredient for your recipes.
Where Do I Get Fresh-Milled Whole-Grain Flour?
If you’re living in a city, you can mostly likely find a bakery or fancy grocery store that sells fresh-milled whole-grain flour. If you’re living in the country and you can source whole-grains, you may want to consider milling your own flour. You can start without making a large investment by using a powerful coffee grinder or blender that you already own. A step up would be purchasing a KitchenAid grain mill attachment. If you’re really enjoying working with fresh-milled whole-grains and you have a reliable source of grain, you can also consider a Harvest NutriMill which is the one I use and love both for its beauty and practicality.
When you feel ready to invest, you can get a NutriMill with $20 off using my discount code BRONSBREAD20 at checkout.
Ingredients For This Recipe
To make this Chocolate Chip Banana Bread recipe, you will need:
Whole-grain Flour: you can use whole-wheat, spelt, einkorn, kamut, rye – whichever interests you. Because the amount is only around 30% of the total flour, it won’t change the texture of your batter too much.
White Flour: All-purpose flour is my go-to and easily accessible. This can be organic all-purpose flour as well.
Sugar: I like to use brown sugar but you can use white sugar, coconut sugar, maple sugar, sucanat.
Eggs: I’m using eggs from our chickens but any eggs will do.
Baking Soda: Just regular ol’ baking soda.
Salt: I use unrefined Himalayan sea salt but any salt will do.
Nutmeg: Ground nutmeg is what I use in this recipe but if you dare, you can also grate fresh nutmeg!
Overripe Bananas: Overripe bananas are brown bananas. Many grocery stores sell overripe bananas, especially for baking, at a discount. If you can’t find overripe bananas at your grocery store, you can also get in the habit of buying more yellow bananas than you or your family will eat. This way, you can let them go very brown, and then peel, bag, and freeze. When you’re wanting to make banana bread again, simply pull 1-2 frozen bananas to thaw a couple hours before you’re ready to mix your batter! This is how I do it and it works great because I can make banana bread on my own schedule and not on the aging bananas schedule!
Sauce: In this recipe, I used applesauce. But you can use other thick additions such as yogurt or sour cream or a mix of them!
Butter: Coconut oil or lard would also work for this recipe.
Chocolate Chips: You can substitute with walnuts if you desire, or do a mix of each!
How to Make Simple Chocolate Chip Banana Bread with Whole-Grain Flour
Preheat oven to 450F.
Prepare an 8″ x 4″ loaf pan with non-stick spray, parchment paper, silicone form or grease and flour.
In a small pan, melt butter.
While butter is melting, add brown sugar to medium size mixing bowl.
Once butter has melted, add melted butter to your sugar and mix together.
Add 2 eggs to your melted butter and sugar, mix until incorporated.
Add applesauce (or yogurt or sour cream) to your bowl. Mix until smooth.
Add overripe bananas. Chop up and mix well in your bowl.
Add vanilla. Mix to incorporate.
Add dry ingredients: whole-grain flour, all-purpose flour, salt, baking soda, and nutmeg. Mix until just incorporated.
Fold in chocolate chips gently. Do not over-mix.
Pour mixture into your prepared tray.
Put loaf in your preheated oven and drop the temperature to 350F.
Bake at 350F for 60-70 minutes.
After your loaf has baked, remove it from the pan and place on a cooling rack.
Once your loaf has cooled down, slice and enjoy!
Watch How to Make This Recipe!
Whole Grain Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 100 g whole-grain flour of your choice wheat, spelt, einkorn, kamut, rye, etc.
- 175 g all-purpose flour
- 150 g brown sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 2 overripe bananas 150-200g
- 2 eggs
- 190 g applesauce or yogurt or sour cream
- 60 g butter
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 450°F.
- Prepare an 8" x 4" loaf pan by coating it with non-stick spray, lining it with parchment paper, using a silicone form, or greasing and flouring it.
- Melt the butter in a small pan, and while it's melting, add brown sugar to a medium mixing bowl.
- Once the butter is melted, combine it with the sugar and mix well.
- Add the eggs and mix until fully incorporated.
- Stir in the applesauce (or yogurt or sour cream), followed by the overripe bananas, and mix until smooth. Add vanilla and mix again.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients—whole-grain flour, all-purpose flour, salt, baking soda, and nutmeg—and mix just until combined.
- Gently fold in the chocolate chips, being careful not to over-mix.
- Pour the batter into your prepared pan, place it in the oven, and immediately reduce the temperature to 350°F.
- Bake for 60-70 minutes.
- Once done, remove the loaf from the pan, transfer it to a cooling rack, and allow it to cool before slicing and enjoying.
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