Gluten-free and vegan banana bread

Stack of thick slices of banana bread with chocolate mini chips.

4.97 from 28 votes

Gluten-free and vegan banana bread

Moist and delicious, with perfect texture and just the right amount of sweetness. You'll love this Healthy Vegan and Gluten-free Banana Bread made with applesauce and no sugar.

Prep Time5

Cook Time50

Total Time55

Course: Breakfast & Brunch

Cuisine: American

Diet: Vegan

Servings: loaf

Calories: 288kcal

Author: Debra Klein

Equipment

Ingredients

3 medium ripe bananas*
½ cup unsweetened applesauce
½ cup drippy tahini*
½ cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 ½ cups rolled oats
2 cups almond flour
⅓ cup ground flax
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon sea salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350. Line loaf pan with unbleached parchment paper.
In bowl of food processor, add bananas, applesauce, tahini, maple syrup and vanilla. Process until smooth.
Add in oats and almond flour. Process 30 seconds, scrape down sides and process again until oats have broken down and batter is smooth.
Add flax, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Process 15 seconds, scrape down sides and process again, until just mixed.
If using chocolate chips or chopped nuts, stir them in by hand now.
Pour into prepared pan and use spatula to evenly disperse.
Bake 50-55 minutes, until toothpick inserted comes out dry and top is golden.
Leave in pan for 10 minutes to begin cooling process.
Place a kitchen towel underneath a cooling rack to absorb any moisture from cooling process. Use ends of parchment paper to facilitate transfer to cooling rack. Remove parchment paper and allow banana bread to thoroughly before slicing.

Notes

BANANAS: 3 medium or 2 large ripe bananas. Ripe bananas are key to a moist and sweet banana bread. If your bananas aren't ripe (spotty and brown), you can quickly ripen them by putting bananas on a baking tray in a preheated 300 degree oven for 10 minutes. The outside will turn black, and that's OK! The inside will be perfectly ripe to make a moist and delicious banana bread.

TAHINI: To avoid tahini that is either too oily, or too dry, be sure to THOROUGHLY mix your jar of tahini when first opening. This will assure a consistent consistency throughout the jar.

OPTIONAL ADD INs: ½ cup mini chocolate chips, ½ cup chopped nuts....or BOTH! Once banana bread batter is made, stir in the chips or nuts BY HAND before pouring batter into prepared pan.

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