Walnut and banana bread

Are you dumping sweet things like chocolate, cakes or biscuits? You can still enjoy a delicious snack try Sarah Ann’s delicious walnut and banana bread

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1 hour 15 minutes
Serves 6
0.5 of 5 a day

Recipe by: Sarah Ann Macklin | Nutritionist

It’s essential to make healthy choices to support our physical and mental wellbeing – junk food is low in nutrients as well as high in calories, fat, and sugar. These unhealthy ingredients can contribute to weight gain, obesity, and other health problems, including cancer. By giving up junk food, we can improve our overall health and longevity.

Ingredients

200g of self-raising flour (you can use buckwheat flour if you’d like it to be gluten free)
3 organic eggs
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda
50g of walnuts, chopped
Cinnamon
3 over-ripe bananas
150ml of unsweetened almond milk

Method

Pre-heat a fan oven to 180 degrees
Grease your 1-litre loaf tin with butter and line it with baking paper
Mash 2 and a half bananas in a bowl, leave the other half for decoration at the end
Add the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate soda in a mixing bowl
In another bowl, crack the eggs and whisk together. Add in the mashed banana, cinnamon and almond milk and combine all together
Add the wet mixture to your dry mixture and mix together gently.
Pour into your tin
Top with sliced banana and your walnuts
Bake for 40-45 minutes. Test with a knife, if it comes our clean it is ready
Cool for 10 minutes before removing from the tin.
Top with greek yogurt and honey!