This basic vegan banana bread with juicy blueberries is so moist, gooey & delicious - plus it's completely oil- & wheat-free! Have it for breakast, as a snack or even for dinner with a big dollop of your favorite nut butter.
Do you also get super excited when your bananas are ripe? I do, because then I know it's time to bake another loaf of banana bread! My boyfriend and I love banana bread. And we basically inhale an entire loaf within one or two days. I've tried many different recipes from cookbooks and other blogs and of course I already have a (marbled!) banana bread recipe on my blog but I decided to create one recipe that is super basic, quick to make, healthy and delicious - so here it is!
The base of this banana bread recipe are oats. I like to bake with ground up oats, as they are super cheap. But most importantly, I feel like oats bring so much flavor and moisture to baked goods. My initial concern, however, was that the banana bread would turn out too dense when I use only oat flour but it works - pretty well, actually.
The star of the recipe are bananas, of course. Make sure you use really ripe ones - the riper, the sweeter. In addition I added a bit of coconut sugar but you can also use raw cane sugar or other dry sweeteners of choice. I don't think liquid sweeteners would work so well, as they would probably add too much moisture but you could try (maybe use less oat/almond milk!?).
Even though this is supposed to be a basic vegan banana bread recipe I wanted to give it a special touch, so I added fresh blueberries to the batter. And this definitely takes the recipe up a notch! Baked blueberries are so juicy and sweet - and that colour! If you don't have fresh blueberries on hand you can totally go with frozen blueberries. And if you are more into chocolate than blueberries, then go ahead and add chocolate chunks or chips. No one will judge you!
If you give this oil-free blueberry banana bread a try, let me know in the comments below. And don’t forget to rate the recipe. You can also tag a photo (#veggiejam) to show me your creation on instagram.
Recipe
Oil-free Blueberry Banana Bread
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Total Time: 60 minutes
- Yield: 10 slices 1x
- Category: Breakfast, Snack
Description
This basic vegan banana bread with juicy blueberries is so moist, gooey & delicious - plus it's completely oil- and wheat-free! Have it for breakast, as a snack or even for dinner with a big dollop of your favorite nut butter.
Ingredients
- 2 ¾ cup oat flour* (275 g)
- 3 very ripe, medim-sized bananas (300 g)
- ¾ cup oat or almond milk
- ½ cup coconut sugar (80 g)
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tbsp baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 cup blueberries (150 g)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 320 °F (160 °C).
- Blend the bananas, oat or almond milk and coconut sugar until no banana chunks are left.
- Add the oat flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt to a large bowl and stir to combine.
- Add the blended wet ingredients and stir till everything is just cooperated - don't overstir!
- Lastly, gently fold in the blueberries. Add the batter to a greased loaf pan (or use a silicon pan) and bake for about 50 min until golden brown.
- Let cool completely (!) before slicing it up.
Notes
*you can simply make oat flour yourself by processing oats in your food processor or high speed blender until finely ground.
This post is also available in German (Deutsch).
Janene says
Thank you so much for this recipe.
Melanie J says
Thank you for giving it a try. So happy you enjoyed it! It's my go-to banana bread recipe.