Healthy Chia Flax Banana Bread Food

HEALTHY CHIA FLAX BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 F and prepare a 9x12 inch loaf pan with non-stick spray and parchment paper.
• Place the eggs, 3 bananas (save the 1 for topping), milk and vanilla into a mixer and beat until fluffy. Ultimately you can place them in a large bowl and use a hand held mixer. Add in the dry ingredients and stir until no dry spots remain. Add melted coconut oil and stir until incorporated.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 50-55 minutes. Let cool before cutting into slices and serving.

BANANA COCONUT FLAXSEED MUFFINS WITH APPLE AND CHIA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a muffin tin with butter.
• Combine flaxseed meal, sugar, chia seeds, baking powder, and cinnamon in a bowl. Add bananas, eggs, and apple; mix batter thoroughly. Stir in 6 tablespoons coconut flakes. Fill tin 3/4 full with batter. Sprinkle remaining 2 tablespoons coconut flakes on top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 30 minutes.

FLAX BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven at 350°F
• Grease a 8-1/2 x 4-1/2-inch bread pan; set aside.
• Mix together flour, flaxseed meal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
• In a separate bowl, beat together eggs and oil.
• Add dry ingredients and mashed bananas alternately to egg and oil mixture, stirring until dry ingredients are moistened. Pour into prepared pan.
• Combine topping ingredients and sprinkle over batter in loaf pan. Pat down firmly into batter or swirl topping into batter with knife.
• Bake 55-60 minutes.

CINNAMON BANANA BREAD WITH CHIA JAM

Steps:

• For the banana bread:.
• Preheat oven to 180ºC and line a loaf tin with baking parchment and pour the mixture inches.
• Whisk dry ingredients, then stir in all the wet ingredients using only ½ tbs maple syrup and mix until smooth. Alternatively throw everything into a food processor and blend until smooth.
• Decorate the top with slices of excess banana and drizzle over the other ½ tablespoon of maple syrup to make a gloss.
• Bake at 180ºC for 50 minutes.
• Cool on a rack completely before turning out of the tin, slicing and eating.
• *Tip - You could also top this with walnuts, goji berries, pumpkin seeds - or anything else that takes your fancy!*.
• For the berry chia jam:.
• Mash the berries or blend them in a food processor.
• Mix in the chia seeds,1 tbsp warm water and 1 teaspoon of the honey (and the vanilla extract and lemon juice, if using). Stir well to stop clumps forming or make it straight in the jar and shake to mix.
• Keep the chia jam sealed in a jar in the fridge to set for at least an hour or until needed.
• Taste and stir in a little more honey, if needed.

SEEDY GOOD-HEALTH BANANA BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans with the coconut oil.
• Beat applesauce, eggs, and butter together in a large bowl until smooth. Add white sugar, raw sugar, vanilla extract, and salt; mix well.
• Whisk bananas, sour cream, and baking soda together in a separate bowl until smooth; stir into the applesauce mixture until evenly combined.
• Gradually stir all-purpose flour, 1/4 cup at a time, into banana mixture until well mixed. Gradually stir whole wheat flour, 1/4 cup at a time, into banana-flour mixture until batter is well mixed. Fold almonds, teff, poppy seeds, chia seeds, and flax seeds into the batter. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pans.
• Bake on the middle rack of the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes. Cool bread in the pans for 15 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool, about 20 minutes.

HONEY WHEAT BREAD WITH CHIA AND FLAX

Steps:

• Place all ingredients into bread machine in the order listed and mix on the "dough" cycle. Punch down dough after the cycle is complete and roll into a sandwich loaf and place in a well-greased bread pan. Allow dough to rise in a warm location for about 45-60 minutes, then bake at 375 degrees for 40 minutes.
• Optional - brush the dough with milk or egg wash prior to baking.
• * Note - prior to making this recipe, soak chia seeds in water to create a chia gel. I keep a fair amount of chia gel in my fridge and use about 2 tbsp of chia gel in this recipe, however food.com does not recognize Chia Gel as an ingredient.