My love affair with einkorn flour continues. We are obsessed with the delicious, incredibly healthy, wonderfully scrumptious einkorn banana bread. I bake it at least once a week. The house smells divine while it’s in the oven. In fact, everyone who walks into the house while it’s baking wants to know what the delicious smell is.
A couple of the children eat it for breakfast. Every morning. They love it. This is an awesome alternative to the expensive organic Z-bars they were going through like crazy. And it is baked in my kitchen with love. I feel good about serving this quick bread to them, knowing it’s 100% organic and nutritious. In addition to it not being overly sweet, it’s also free of preservatives and a bunch of ingredients I cannot pronounce. And it mixes up pretty quickly.
Scrumptious Einkorn Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 3 ripe bananas (the riper, the better for sweetness)
- 1/3 cup melted (and cooled) butter
- 1 pastured egg (I pull mine right from the chicken coop)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup organic cane sugar
- 1 1/2 cups einkorn flour - all-purpose, whole wheat, or a combination (I prefer 1/2 cup whole wheat and 1 cup all-purpose)
- 1 tsp aluminum-free baking soda
- pinch of sea salt
- 1/4 cup organic flaxseed meal (optional, but impossible to even taste it)
- 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds (optional, but adds a nice crunch)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Peel and mash the bananas in the bowl with a hand mixer.
- Add all of the wet ingredients to the bananas, and mix well.
- Add the sugar, flour, baking soda, and sea salt. Mix well.
- Add the flax seed meal and pumpkin seeds if you want to add them. Mix well.
- Pour the batter into a greased (I use softened butter) 9×13 pan.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let the loaf sit for about 10 minutes before turning it out onto a cooling rack.
- Serve warm with butter. Or just eat it plain. It’s that good.
My recipe is adapted from A Modern Homestead, where there are so many delicious einkorn recipes just waiting to be made!