Banana Oat Cranberry Bread

This easy-to-make banana bread is plant-based, moist and delicious. It’s low in sugar and made with ground rolled oats (oat flour), ripe soft bananas, fresh frozen cranberries and almond milk. When blended and cooked together, these ingredients create their own natural sweetness.

Banana Oat Cranberry Bread [Vegan]

Ingredients

Wet ingredients

• 3 ripe and soft medium-size bananas, chopped
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 1 cup fresh frozen cranberries or other berries with their juices, roughly chopped in two
• 1/3 cup light tasting oil, such as vegetable, canola or grapeseed oil

Dry ingredients

• 2 to 2 1/2 cups oat flour (see note below)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/3 cup granulated organic sugar cane
• 2/3 cup walnuts or other nuts, coarsely chopped

Preparation

1. In a medium-size bowl, add the bananas and almond milk and hand mash the bananas with a potato masher. Add the chopped cranberries (or other berries) with their juices and lightly mash and mix — just enough to squeeze out some of the extra berry juice, allowing the banana mixture to take on the colour of the berries. Mix in the oil with a fork. Set this aside.
2. In a separate and bigger bowl, mix with a fork all of the dry ingredients. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix again with a fork or hand whisk until the ingredients are well combined. The mixture should be thick and creamy and not runny or too wet. If need be, add a little more oat flour (not more than ½ cup) and mix.
3. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes on centre rack in preheated oven until top is golden and cracked and toothpick inserted comes out dry. Take out.
4. Let cool for 20 minutes and then loosen around the sides passing a dull knife. Revert on a cooling rack. Allow loaf to cool completely before slicing. Cover leftover loaf with foil or store in an airtight container. Keep at room temperature or in fridge if you prefer it chilled.

Notes

Depending on the ripeness of your bananas & berries, after mixing the wet with the dry ingredients, you can add an additional ½ cup of flour for a total of 2½ cups oat flour. If you prefer to make fresh oat flour, process 2½ cups rolled oats in a small blender or Nutribullet until you obtain a powdery mixture that looks like four. This takes less than a minute.

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-recipe/banana-oat-cranberry-bread-vegan/