Fancy a sweet treat? With this banana bread with Chia* You don't need to have a guilty conscience. A quick, easy and super delicious recipe!
Banana bread is actually a specialty from the USA. There, this juicy cake, which it is actually much more than a bread, has been baked for many decades. In today's diet, this classic can still be spiced up with many other ingredients and made, for example, a delicious and healthy Chia*-Make banana bread.
Chia* Seeds are by no means a new invention of the modern food industry. The small black seeds were already very popular with the Aztecs and Mayans and were an important part of their diet.
The reasons for this are understandable
- Chia* Seeds contain many omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.
- Many nutrients, such as iron, magnesium and zinc make the seeds a superfood, as which they are often also called.
- Chia* Compared to other cereals, seeds have a high protein content, which is particularly appreciated by athletes and nutrition-conscious people.
You'll love this banana bread with millet, rolled oats and amaranth!
In the kitchen, you can especially take advantage of the swelling effect. For example, a delicious chia pudding can be prepared without a stove and pot.
The water-soluble fiber in the chia seeds swells in the liquid and thus keeps you full for a long time. Chia pudding or chia gel (the slightly more liquid version of the pudding) can be used as an egg substitute in the vegan diet. The neutral taste of the small seeds makes them universally applicable in sweet and savory cuisine.
Banana bread: The classic also for breakfast
Back to the cake. Why a banana bread with chia? Because banana bread is simply delicious and cake does not always have to be a sin or cause a guilty conscience.
The chia seeds not only give the banana bread an extra portion of nutrients. The crunchy, crispy feeling that invades the mouth when chewing the chia seeds also provides that little extra. So why not go back to the tried and true every now and then, combine it in a new way and bake a banana bread with chia seeds?
But banana bread is not only suitable for the coffee table. Even at the breakfast table, it provides you with all kinds of vitamins and nutrients to start the day well. It is not without reason that it is served as breakfast in the USA and is also appreciated by top athletes as a replenisher of their energy reserves. So why not have it more often?
For these banana pancakes you only need 2 ingredients!
Banana bread with chia
Ingredients
- 200 g soft butter
- 1 EL Honey
- 1 Vanilla bean
- 3 very ripe bananas
- 3 Eggs
- 250 g Whole spelt flour
- 1 TL Baking powder
- 30 g Chia seeds
- 6 EL Milk
Anleitung
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- First, beat the butter until fluffy.
- Cut the vanilla pod lengthwise with a sharp knife and scrape out the pulp. Carefully stir the vanilla pulp into the butter cream. Stir in each egg separately.
- Process the bananas with a fork or blender to a fine pulp. Stir the banana puree into the butter and egg mixture. Add the honey.
- Mix the flour with the baking powder and the chia seeds and stir into the butter-banana mixture by the spoonful, alternating with the milk.
- Line a loaf pan with baking paper or grease with a little butter and dust with flour and pour in the batter. Bake the banana bread with chia in a preheated oven for about 1 hour.
Notes
- 23 g carbohydrates
- 4,4 g protein
- 14,8 g fat
Nährwerte
Chia, bananas & Co.: A few tips at the end
If the bananas are very ripe, the honey can also be omitted. The riper the bananas are, the better the chia banana bread tastes in the end. So feel free to use the dark, spotty bananas, which you might not necessarily eat so anymore.
If the Chia seeds are too expensive (after all, the price is more than 10 € per kilo), you can also go to Flaxseed*. They are just as healthy, but cost significantly less than the small black seeds.
Meal :)
Monique is the face behind Nuttylicious. Her favorite place since childhood is the kitchen. Here she loves to cook and bake for her family and friends. On her blog, she tries to balance indulgence and healthy eating. You can find more recipes on Monique's blog Nuttylicious
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