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.
Abby W
Do you have the actual nutrition facts for this?
lauren saggio
Wow, Joy! That looks amazing. I always love homemade bread to store bought bread, and this is actually healthy, with oats, fruit and good fats. Bravo :)
fattydumpling
I made this the other day…and it was superbly delicious. Didn’t change a thing. I even ran to the grocery store ’cause I needed one more egg and only had 2 hours before I had to run to school ;D
EMM
Do you think this could be made into successful muffins?
Katherine @ NightOwlChef
I baked up a loaf of this tonight, and was SO delightfully surprised by its lightness and moistness! It’s such a great banana bread, I wouldn’t have known it was a WW version. I did add 1/2+ tsp vanilla and used steel cut oats instead of old-fashioned (it’s what I had… and they were still round and crunchy in the loaf – oh well). The egg white trick is a KEEPER.
Thanks, Joy!!
sanjeeta kk
Oatmeal & banana ! healthy and tasty combo. Beautiful clicks and yummy recipes.
Kristy Sayer
I blogged about this recipe here!
https://ksayerphotography.blogspot.com/2010/01/042.html
:D
Laura
is out of the oven…. waiting for it to cool a bit before cutting….. can’t really wait! hehehe.
thanks for sharing, always!
Lau ;)
Chinkya
Made two loaves today: Substituted whole wheat pastry flour for half of the white flour, added a cup of chopped toasted walnuts and used splenda instead of white sugar but added a tablespoon of molasses. Bread came up still flavorful but quite dry. Next time I will try taking it out after 30 minutes to improve the moistness. Thanks for sharing!
Susan Updike
Thanks…I have lost 19 lbs on Weight Watchers since September ’09. I hadn’t seen this…thanks for posting!
Susan