Healthy Chocolate Banana Bread
The Ultimate Healthy chocolate banana bread is moist, tender and absolutely a dream! Made super healthy with whole wheat, jagerry, cold pressed coconut oil and hazelnuts.
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 124 g whole wheat flour 1 cup
- 150 g (without skin) Ripened mashed bananas (2 medium to large)
- 70 g jaggery 1/3cup
- 102 g yoghurt 1/2cup
- 50 g cold pressed coconut oil 1/4cup
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 20 g cocoa powder 1/4cup
- 1/4 cup hazelnuts
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180 degree celcius. Grease a medium sized loaf tin (8x2.5inch) or line it with parchment paper and keep it aside.
- Seive the whole wheat flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder 4-5 times.
- In a large bowl mash the ripe bananas with a fork and keep aside.
- Next, in a small bowl whisk the yougurt and jaggery till the jagerry has dissolved and mixture is smooth. Add this to the mashed ripe bananas.
- Then, add coconut oil and stir the liquid ingredients well.
- Finally add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix everything well with a spatula. Add the hazelnuts and give it all a final stir. Do not over mix the batter.
- Pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin. Sprinle some hazelnuts on the top of the bread.
- Bake the bread for 30-40 minutes or until the skeewer comes out clean.
- Let the chocolate banana bread come to room temperature before slicing it.
Notes
The exact measurements are in gm, approximate measurements in cups.
- Do not skip sieving of the dry ingredients.
- Any sweetener of the same quantity can be used instead of jaggery.
- To make it vegan replace the yogurt with any nut milk or soy milk.
- You can use chocolate chips to make it more decadent. You can use any nuts or dried fruits of your choice.
- Check the time and temperature for baking as per your oven.