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Simple, no frills vegan banana bread - an easy to make one bowl mix full of sweet banana flavour with a moist delicate crumb. Perfect for using up ripe bananas! #veganrecipes #bananabread #veganbananabread | Recipe on the cookandhim.com

Vegan Banana Bread

Prep: 20 mins | Cook: 75 mins | Total: 95 mins | Quantity: 8 - 10 slices

Ingredients

  • 2 tblsp ground flax seeds
  • 1/3 cup (80ml) unsweetened almond milk
  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1/4 cup (40g) oil – I used olive oil but can be subbed with avocado or mild nut oils
  • 3 large bananas – the riper the better!
  • 1/2 cup (90g) coconut sugar
  • 1 + 3/4 cups ( 250g) plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 3 tblsp (40g) chia seeds
  • 1/4 cup (30g) walnuts – roughly chopped – optional (leave off if you don’t like walnuts or have an allergy)
  • Loaf tin – 23 x 13cm (9 x 5 inches)

 

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 160 Fan / 180 C / 350 F / Gas 4. Brush your tin with a little oil and dust with flour, tipping out any excess
  2. In a small bowl or mug put the ground flax seeds along with 1/3 cup (80ml) cold water and set aside
  3. In a large bowl put the almond milk, vinegar and oil, whisk and leave to stand 5 minutes
  4. Peel and break the bananas into chunks and add to the bowl with the milk mixture. Mash everything together with a fork or potato masher
  5. Stir in the coconut sugar and flax seeds mixture
  6. Add the flour, baking powder, bicarb, cinnamon and chia seeds and mix everything together really well, stirring up from the bottom of the bowl so no flour pockets remain
  7. Tip into your prepared tin, smooth the top if necessary and sprinkle with the chopped walnuts if using, pushing them lightly into the batter
  8. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a skewer or long cocktail stick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean with no raw cake mixture clinging to it
  9. Leave to cool in the tin for around 15 minutes before carefully turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely
  10. Store in an airtight container
  11. This vegan banana bread also freezes really well - slice once cooled and freeze in small bags

Recipe by The Cook & Him at https://thecookandhim.com/recipes/easy-vegan-banana-bread/