Healthy Low-Fat Banana Zucchini Bread Recipe - Food.com (2024)

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"This bread is a combination of zucchini and banana bread, and it is a wonderful way to use up old bananas and dip into that summer harvest of zucchini. The bread tastes more like banana bread than zucchini bread, but it has the added nutritional benefits of vegetables. This bread is lower in fat that the standard banana/zucchini bread because applesauce replaces some of the oil in the recipe. Still using some oil, however, will prevent the bread from getting rubbery. Experiment by using pumpkin instead of bananas during the autumn months or by adding walnuts and dates! This recipe makes 2 loaves. Enjoy!"

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Ready In:
1hr 10mins

Ingredients:
17
Yields:

2 Loaves

Serves:
24

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ingredients

  • 1 cup white flour
  • 1 cup wheat flour
  • 1 cup rolled oats (Quaker Old Fashioned Oats)
  • 1 12 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 12 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 12 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 14 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 14 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 4 eggs (or Egg Beaters to cut some calories)
  • 1 14 cups white sugar
  • 14 cup oil
  • 12 cup applesauce
  • 2 medium overripe bananas, mashed (the riper, the sweeter)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups shredded zucchini
  • 1 cup raisins (or dates or walnuts)

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Whisk together white flour, wheat flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and salt.
  • In a separate bowl, beat the eggs.
  • Add the sugar, oil, applesauce, and mashed bananas to the eggs; mix well.
  • Add the vanilla.
  • Combine the wet and dry mixtures. Stir until just combined.
  • Fold in the zucchini and raisins.
  • Pour into 2 lightly greased loaf pans (9x5-inch).
  • Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.

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Reviews

  1. Used only whole wheat flour for my muffins. Substituted the oil for my latest miracle ingredient....Plain Non-Fat Greek Yogurt! 1 cup of yogurt instead of the oil/applesauce combo. Less calories, less sugar, and mega protein! I used only 1/2 cup sugar. I will try adding an extra banana and completely omitting extra sugar next time. I used cranberries so that upped the sweetness. Also added 1/2 cup ground flax seed. AND since everyone loves a crunchy topping on their muffin, but streusel is sooo not healthy.... I used Kashi GoLean Crunch on top! Just crushed it a little bit smaller. Again a little bit of extra protein :-) Baked 25 minutes, rotating pan halfway through. Made 24 muffins.

    Ohleaveus

  2. I thought this was great even with the mods I made to make it even more healthy, so I am sure if made as written it would be fabulous! The changes I made were to use all whole wheat pastry flour, cut the sugar to 1 cup, added extra cinnamon, subbed flaxmeal + water for eggs and skipped the oil in favor of an extra banana. I actually thought it tasted more ;ike zucchini than banana bread, but either way it's very moist and yummy!

    Dre S

  3. This bread definitely does not taste low fat! It's so moist I think I will cut back on some liquid next time, maybe squeeze the liquid out of the zucchini before baking. I added about 1 1/2 cups very ripe bananas and cut the oil to 3 tbs. I love the texture from the oats! I added chocolate chips to one loaf. One thing was, the top was getting very dark before the center was cooked so I covered it with foil for the last 10 minutes. Thanks!

    newmama

  4. I made this recipe into one (shorter) loaf and 12 muffins and they turned out great. I cooked the muffins for 20 minutes and the loaf for about 35. I made a few tweaks based on what I had on hand and to make it a bit healthier. I used 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour and 1/2 cup white, subbed out the oil and applesauce for 1 cup of regular plain yogurt (didn't have Greek but regular did the trick!), only used cinnamon of the three spices and added a dash of extra vanilla, cut the sugar to 1/2 cup, and added chocolate chips and frozen blueberries to make up some sweetness :) I used 3 1/2 bananas instead as I had extra on hand that needed to be used. I didn't add raisins but did use walnuts. Turned out really moist and delicious, would definitely make this way again!

    Shannon K.

  5. The first time I made this, I made it exactly as written. The second time I made it, I followed the suggestions of another review. I used ALL whole wheat flour, and used 1 cup of plain Greek no fat yogurt in place of the oil and applesauce. Plus I used 3 bananas, extra vanilla, extra cinnamon, and 3 whole eggs and 1 egg white. I used 1 cup of sugar and put vanilla almond cereal crumbled up on top. Due to personal preference, I omitted the raisins, nuts, and the other 2 spices besides the cinnamon. Both versions were good so I'll probably make it again doing it the second way which was even more healthy.

    wilkerson765314

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Tweaks

  1. I used 1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour and 1/2 cup white, subbed out the oil and applesauce for 1 cup of regular plain yogurt (didn't have Greek but regular did the trick!), only used cinnamon of the three spices and added a dash of extra vanilla, cut the sugar to 1/2 cup, and added chocolate chips and frozen blueberries to make up some sweetness :) I didn't add raisins but did use walnuts.

    Shannon K.

  2. So yummy! The changes I made were purely due to lack of certain ingredients, but they (I made cupcakes instead of loaves) turned out delicious! I used all unbleached white flour, subbed one cup of pumpkin purée for one zucchini, used 3/4 cup coconut oil and no applesauce, and subbed 2t of pumpkin pie spice for all the spices. I also added a cup of chopped medjool dates that had been soaking in cold water for awhile. Made 12 regular sized muffins and 15 mini muffins. Delicious!

    jennifer.irene.davi

  3. The first time I made this, I made it exactly as written. The second time I made it, I followed the suggestions of another review. I used ALL whole wheat flour, and used 1 cup of plain Greek no fat yogurt in place of the oil and applesauce. Plus I used 3 bananas, extra vanilla, extra cinnamon, and 3 whole eggs and 1 egg white. I used 1 cup of sugar and put vanilla almond cereal crumbled up on top. Due to personal preference, I omitted the raisins, nuts, and the other 2 spices besides the cinnamon. Both versions were good so I'll probably make it again doing it the second way which was even more healthy.

    wilkerson765314

  4. This is wonderful bread. I used dried tart cherries and dried blueberries instead of raisins. Will make this again.

    55tbird

  5. This bread is excellent. I wanted something I could use to sneak some nutrition down my 2 year old grandson. I changed it a little bit, cut down sugar to 1 cup, substituted 1 C. of plain greek yogurt for the oil and applesauce, and only used 1 banana. It's so delicious! I doubled the batch to freeze some to send home with my daughter! Can't go wrong with this!

    trishpet

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