Delicious Banana Bread with Cinnamon, Walnuts and Dates

Recipe by Maria-Carin for the perfect vegan, gluten and sugar-free banana bread

For years, my friends, I have worked on creating the perfect vegan, gluten and sugar-free banana bread to satisfy myself, and now you! My main aim was to create a banana bread that won’t leave me feeling guilty, but pleasured. Comfortable in my skin. Nourished. This recipe works marvellously. Banana Bread is definitely not a bread: come on everyone, it’s a cake! Things are not always as they seem…

Makes 1 bread tin

Dry ingredients

1/2 cup almond meal
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
1/4 cup rice flour
1/2 tsp bicarb
Pinch salt
1 tbsp cinnamon
1 pinch nutmeg
1 cup or 150g chopped dates
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped, keep a few for the topping
Wonderful option: 1 tbsp maca powder

Wet ingredients

3/4 cup rice- or soy milk
1/4 cup flaxmeal
1 tsp lemon juice, or apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup extra virgin coconut oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 very ripe bananas, about 300g

Action!

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Mix the flaxmeal with the milk and lemon juice or vinegar and set aside for about 5 minutes.

Sieve and mix the dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside.

Mix the rest of the wet ingredients in a bowl and set aside.

Peel and squash the ripe bananas with your bare clean hands into nice mush and add to the rest of the wet mixes. Then add all that wetness to the dry mix.

Pour into a bread tin or baking tray lined with baking paper.

Give the tin a bang on the bench to release any air bubbles.

Place a few walnuts on top and press them into the dough a little.

Bake for about 50 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean-ish (a slight streak of gooey banana is OK as this recipe is loaded with bananas).

Fantastic!

Enjoy hot, cold, lukewarm – that’ll all be divine.

Toasted, topped with nut butter, with Vanilla Cashew Cream (it’s in my book), naked, alone or with other yummy people.

Tip

To make this recipe paleo-compatible, exchange the rice and buckwheat flour for almond meal and coconut flour, or whatever other paleo flour you have. To make your own flaxmeal just grind flaxseeds in a coffee grinder or blender until resembling fine flour. If you don’t like dates, by all means use sultanas or apricots instead. If you have stevia drops, you could totally add a few in this recipe too, but just a few!

Lick Your Plate!
by Maria-Carin Gala
Cookbook from Gala’s plant-based, gluten-free and refined sugar-free Organic Kitchen
Hardback (with ebook) available through the author:
www.mcgala.com