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
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Serves 6
- 0.5 of 5 a day


Recipe by: Sarah Ann Macklin
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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!
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