Delicious Rye Banana Bread Recipe
Looking for a healthier version of the good, old banana bread? This easy Rye Banana Bread Recipe will give you perfect results every time. It uses only small amounts of natural sweeteners while giving you a mouthful of perfect scrumptiousness.
What are the benefits of using rye flour?
Rye helps to lose weight
Rye fibre is rich in non-cellulose polysaccharides, which have an exceptionally high ability of binding water.This quickly gives you a feeling of being full. Eating rye bread can be a real help for anyone trying to lose weight.
Rye is composed of larger molecules, which are not broken down as quickly as the smaller ones found in wheat. Therefore, they have less of an effect on blood sugar and don’t leave you with cravings. Rye contains four times the fibre and 20% fewer calories than standard white sliced bread.
One slice of regular rye bread has about 70 calories, make sure to replace your regular bread with it, rather than adding it on top of your regular diet or you will most likely gain weight.
Click here for my Sourdough Rye Bread Recipe
Rye can help to improve your digestion
Rye bread is 100% wheat-free, which can help to eliminate bloating and discomfort. Feeling generally better on a daily basis, isn’t that what we are all looking for?
As mentioned briefly in the weight loss section, the impressive composition and density of dietary fibre in rye makes it perfect for everyone who is suffering from constipation or other blockages of the bowels. It also eases stomach pain, stomach cramping and might help to prevent more serious conditions like ulcers, gallstones or even colon cancer.
Is rye gluten-free?
Rye contains gluten, even though wheat and rye affect the body in slightly different ways it isn’t suitable for anyone suffering from coeliac disease or gluten intolerance. In case you feel bloated a lot of the time and only suspect that you might be gluten intolerant it makes sense to test if you are okay with rye. I don’t recommend restricting your diet any more than absolutely necessary. Many people who are intolerant to wheat are able to tolerate ancient grains such as rye or spelt, particularly when they are fermented like in sourdough.
If you want to make this Rye Banana Bread Recipe completely gluten-free, just replace the rye flour with more coconut flour but be aware that the result will be much denser.
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Rye Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 1 1/2 cup rye flour
- 5-6 Medjool dates finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 3 eggs beaten
- 3 bananas small, roughly mashed
- 5 tablespoons coconut oil melted
- 2-3 tablespoons maple syrup or date syrup
- 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 °F/180 °C.
- Line a small to medium loaf pan with parchment paper.
- Get two large bowls ready, one for the dry and one for the wet ingredients.
- In the first bowl stir the flours, dates, cinnamon, baking powder and salt together.
- In the second bowl beat the eggs until foamy, add the remaining wet ingredients and blend well.
- Combine the two mixtures by adding the wet on top of the dry mix and beat with a balloon whisk.
- Transfer the dough into the lined loaf tin.
- If you have some banana left, slice it up and use them to decorate the cake.
- Bake it in the oven for 50 minutes and cool on a wire rack.
Notes
Nutrition
I cant eat eggs. Can you recommend a substitute for eggs in this recipe?
Hi Michelle, you could try using a flax egg instead, 1 tbsp ground flaxseeds to 3 tbsp water. I haven’t tried it for this particular recipe, but it usually works a treat, sometimes the result can be slightly denser.
I hope this helps. ~Eva
Can’t have coconut flour, would white rice flour or tigernut flour or a mixture work?
Hi Karen, thank you for your question, I haven’t tried it with either of these options, you might have to slightly reduce the amount of liquid because the coconut flour absorbs more liquid than regular flour. Can you have almond flour? That would probably be my prefered choice as a substitute for the coconut flour. If you try any of these variations please let me know how it turned out 🙂
The calories stated is that the whole cake or per slice?
Hi Rachel, the calories stated are per slice.
Love Love Love!!! I skipped the dates and agave and just doubled up on the banana!!! Yummy. Defs my new wheat free sugar free Nana bread… Thanks for sharing.
this recipe rocks. like an early commenter I doubled the banana and left dates out (don’t have any). really yummy.
Hi Rose, I am glad to hear that you liked the recipe, I am sure that it was delicious even without the dates. 🙂