Not every morning in my life is filled with Chocolate Chip Buttermilk Pancakes and Chocolate Chocolate Chip Banana Bread… not when things like my ten year class reunion and bathing suit season loom just around the corner. For real friends, those are two scary things. At least I don’t have to go to my ten year reunion in my bathing suit. Can you imagine the horror!? Yea… so there’s always a silver lining.
I’d like to introduce you to Low Fat Oatmeal Banana Bread. If this bread were one of your dear friends from high school, it would be that friend who wore old lady shoes because they were the most practical, and played the trombone, and was the super smart editor of the school newspaper. This bread would be the friend that was super sensible, and sweet and just downright made you feel good about your day.
Go ahead, think of this Low Fat Oatmeal Banana Bread as your friend… and then it eat. No, there’s nothing weird about that.
This bread is packed full of happy, heart-healthy oats, cinnamon spice and crazy ripe bananas. It’s just the thing to throw together over the weekend, slice up, wrap individually, and freeze for breakfast for the entire week. I just grab a slice from the freezer as I’m running out the door, and by the time I have a chance to eat it, it’s perfectly defrosted. Of course the microwave and toaster oven work wonders too.
Low Fat Oatmeal Banana Bread
adapted from the Weight Watchers site
makes 1 loaf of 10 slices, 4 points per slice
– 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
– 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
– 1/2 tsp salt
– 1/2 tsp baking soda
– 1/4 tsp baking powder
– 1/2 tsp cinnamon
– 3 tsp canola or walnut oil
– 1 large egg, beaten
– 2 medium egg whites, beaten
– 3 large bananas, ripe
– 1 cup uncooked old fashioned oats
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a loaf pan and set aside. In a large bowl, stir together dry ingredients including the oats and cinnamon.
In a smaller bowl, mash bananas with a potato masher or fork. Add oil and whole egg and mix thoroughly.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix well. Batter will be fairly thick.
In a medium sized bowl, with an electric hand mixer, beat the egg whites until medium stiff peaks form. Fold the egg whites into the batter in three additions.
Pour batter into pan and bake until top of loaf is firm to touch, 45 to 50 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool in pan for 5 minutes. Flip out and cool on a wire rack for another 10 minutes. Slice loaf into 10 equally sized slices.
Dani
Coconut flakes taste really good in there too. I am totally into Banana Coconut flavor since I tried it… if you find roasted sunflower oil… heavenly!
Norina
Just baked this via a rice cooker–cause I don’t have an oven — an I’m totally enjoying every healthy yummy bite! super thanks for sharing your recipe, will try the rest of it :)) More Power!
Chelsea Gravelyn
I opted for a less healthy variation and added walnuts and chocolate chips. It’s amazing! Really delicious!
Laurie
I made this bread yesterday and it’s wonderful! What a unique recipe, I’ve never used whipped egg whites in a recipe for banana bread before but it gave it a nice lightness. I made a few small changes: I used whole wheat white flour, 2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, and added 1/4 cup of mini chocolate chips. The bread is delicious and my 9-year-old agrees. Mine was done in about 40 minutes. I blogged it here and gave a link back to this page and your site, because it’s awesome.
Mine doesn’t seem dense or overmoist, the texture is just perfect. I’m sure it’s the whipped egg whites.
Marie
I made this with a splash of Cointreau and it is amazing! Although a bit dense. Will be gone by 24 hours.
Nathalie
Came out well but I actually would have liked this to be a bit sweeter. Anyone? Just me? Wait this is supposed to be healthier banana bread? What? ;)
…used applesauce instead of oil, baked about 40-45 min (not sure because I missed hearing the timer haha) and added a heaping 1/4 cup of walnuts, chopped. Probably would have added chocolate chips if we had had any in the house… that probably would have solved the sweet problem ;)
Instead my solution is spreading it with a little bit of this: https://ilovepeanutbutter.com/cinnamonrasinswirl.html
Keleigh
In the oven:) I used 3 whole eggs as suggested above because I also added two scoops of whey protein so I needed the extra moisture, quick oats instead of old fashioned to hopefully avoid the “chewy” ness as mentioned above. I’m very excited, it smells a-mazing! I crave carbs after working out or doing cardio so hopefully this will be a healthy carb perfect for throwing in the gym bag! Thanks a bunch!
Sybil
I LOVE this recipe! I make it at least once a month, and slice it up and freeze it so I can bring a slice to work for breakfast in the morning. I subbed applesauce for the oil, reduced the sugar a little and used 2 whole eggs (I hate wasting the yolks!). It still came out great. Love your site, thanks!