Seeded Banana Bread With Greek Yogurt Recipe

I made this recipe a few times in the last month – as we seem to end up having too ripe fruits at home all the time. I keep buying them in spite of the kids not eating them. I do like them though. I just can’t eat them all. I also use them in Oaty Banana Pancakes and for Banana And Ground Almond Cookies I have also just recently tried this fab recipe: Banana Bread Mini Muffins so, you can do so much with bananas! Hence I experimented with this Seeded Banana Bread With Greek Yogurt Recipe – and it turned out so well!

So this recipe is only a little bit different from the regular ones you can find. It’s light and moist but not too sweet. And because I love seeds and nuts, I thought why nut? It gives a bit of an extra texture to the bread. It’s also a little bit of extra healthy goodness for the kids. (Smugglers gonna smuggle when they have picky eaters!) I love it with peanut butter and chocolate but spread, but my son swears on a little bit of apricot jam going with it.

How to make seeded banana bread with greek yogurt

It’s not too difficult to prepare this banana bread, all you need is a scale but no food processor needed, no fuss at all. It would keep fresh for a few days when covered, but it won’t last for days in my experience because it’s just too yummy. (And of course because I add a little bit of chocolate chips, they just make everything a little bit nicer, aren’t they?)

Bananas

Make sure they are perfectly ripe and you can easily mash with a fork. In banana bread – and in any cake – bananas act not just as a flabour but a binding agent as well. As a result, you’ll need less oil/margarine/butter.

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Flour

You can also use self-raising flour, I do this sometimes too, just make sure you add less baking soda/baking powder.

Greek yogurt

I would not compromise on this as Greek yogurt is really creamy and thick compared to the regular counterpart.

Olive oil

Light olive oil or even sunflower oil is the most suitable, so that the taste is as neutral as possible. 

Sugar

I prefer light brown sugar for this recipe, but if you don’t have that you can substitute it for any brown sugar like muscovado or dark brown.

Seeds

Any seeds you like! Poppyseed, linseed, sunflower seed, and chopped walnut nuts are gorgeous too – or all of them! 

Chocolate chips

This is non negotiable for us – but it can be optional for you. Although, I can’t imagine this recipe without them. I sometimes make it with milk chocolate chips, sometimes I use dark choc chips.

Extras

Dates are lovely in any banana bread or rustic cake – so this banana bread is no exemption. A bit a of a chopped dates if you fancy that.

Another way I’m going to try to make it in the future is with brown butter. I just found this recipe: Brown Butter Banana Bread and it sounds really delicious! I really like the idea of caramel notes, I imagine it goes just perfectly with the taste of banana. 

Seeded Banana Bread With Greek Yogurt

Crunchy on the outside and moist on the inside - yummy, no fuss banana bread with healthy seeds.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Total Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Course Dessert, Snack

Servings 8 people

Ingredients

  

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• 250 g all purpose flour
• 250 g bread flour
• 140 g light brown sugar
• 2 medium bananas ripen
• 150 g Greek yogurt
• 100 ml olive oil
• 2 eggs
• 1.5 tsp baking soda
• 0.5 tsp salt
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 handfuls seed mix poppy, linseed, Sesame, sunflower seed etc
• 100 g chocolate chips optional

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 175 Celsius.
• Measure out everything and add them to a mixing bowl - excluding the flour. Set aside a spoonful of seeds and some chocolate chips to sprinkle on the top of the loaf.
  
• Add the flour little by little and mix it in until the dough is well combined.
• Line a loaf tray with baking paper and spoon the dough mixture over. Sprinkle the loaf with the leftover spoonful of seeds and choc chips.
  
• Bake it for an hour on 175 Celsius.
  

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