I love recycling and reusing, and one of the best ways to make use of over ripe bananas is to make banana bread! One recipe I have tried is this recipe,  but the fact that it uses refined flour (maida) and white sugar bothers me. Thus began a search for a healthier banana bread suitable for babies and kids and I landed upon this recipe. I tried it out and it turned out great! So here is a super healthy Whole Wheat Banana Bread Recipe for kids that uses jaggery instead of sugar!
Whole Wheat Banana Bread Recipe
Dry Ingredients
- 2 cups of whole wheat
- 1/2 cup together almond slices and cashews
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 3-5 cardamoms
Wet Ingredients
- 3 ripe bananas
- 1 cup jaggery (Use 100% Organic Jaggery)
- 1 cup yogurt or buttermilk
- 1/2 cup cold butter
Method
1. Sieve all the dry ingredients together and mix them well.
2. Mash the bananas in a bowl. Add the powered jaggery to the mashed banana and mix well.
4. Crumble the butter with your fingers into the banana jaggery mix and add yogurt. Combine well.
5. Mix the dry and wet ingredients together and add the slivered almonds and cashew pieces (my son hates cashews so I try to disguise them in cakes and bread).
6. Preheat the oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit. Grease and flour a loaf pan.
7. Pour the batter into the greased loaf pan and bake for 1 hour. The baking time depends upon your oven, so keep checking in between to prevent it from burning.
8. The loaf is ready when a tooth pick inserted into it comes out clean. Cool the loaf before cutting and serving.
Notes – Baking powder and soda can be omitted if you like, although I haven’t tried it.
This whole wheat banana bread recipe is a great lunchbox and travel snack, and actually tastes so much better than the refined flour/sugar versions. So the next time you see your precious bananas browning on the kitchen counter, you know what to do!
Whole Wheat Banana Bread Recipe with Jaggery for Kids
Ingredients
- 2 cups of whole wheat
- 1/2 cup together almond slices and cashews
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 3-5 cardamoms
- 3 ripe bananas
- 1 cup jaggery
- 1 cup yogurt or buttermilk
- 1/2 cup cold butter
Instructions
- Sieve all the dry ingredients together and mix them well.
- Mash the bananas in a bowl.
- Add the powered jaggery to the mashed banana and mix well.
- Crumble the butter with your fingers into the banana jaggery mix and add yoghurt. Combine well.
- Mix the dry and wet ingredients together and add the slivered almonds and cashew pieces (my son hates cashews so I try to disguise them in cakes and bread).
- Preheat the oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit.. Grease and flour a loaf pan.
- Pour the batter into the greased loaf pan and bake for 1 hour. The baking time depends upon your oven, so keep checking in between to prevent it from burning.
- The loaf is ready when a tooth pick inserted into it comes out clean. Cool the loaf before cutting and serving.
- Note - Baking powder and soda can be omitted if you like, although I haven't tried it.
You have said 350 degrees Celsius..don’t you think it’s too high ..or it should have been 350 d Fahrenheit
Thank you for highlighting it Uma. We would immediately change.
Kindly let me know if eggs can be used and how.
Instead of Baking soda and Baking powder you can used 3-4 eggs.
Apart from this we have now made a sponge cake with egg the recipe details is provided in the below link.
Basic Whole Wheat Cooker Sponge Cake [No Oven | No Baking Powder | No Maida | No Sugar] – https://bit.ly/2Bwmg15
Apart from this we have many egg recipes for babies and kids and it is provided in the below given link
Egg archive – https://bit.ly/3dxMVaN
Hi .I tried this recipe with frozen Banana and reduced the b powder to 1/2tsp and baking soda to 1/4tsp as I felt banana is a great substitute for rising agent.but the batter was too thick and dry so I added more 1/4cup of curd .it turned dense .pls reply
Hi Vandana,
All the ingredients need to be in room temperature ( except the ones that are specified to be used cold). The over ripe bananas are egg substitutes and help the cake to rise. Also, adding curd after the dry and wet Ingredients are mixed, must also have resulted in a denser cake.
Tried this recipe today, and it turned out so good, thanks for sharing with us!
welcome dear 🙂
This is the best banana bread recipie I have tried
Thanks dear 🙂
dear
i dont have enough yogurt for the wet ingredients.
is there any other substitute for yogurt
I think I am late to answer it. And yogurt is an import ingredient here.
Hello! This is a great recipe with jaggery. I live banana bread with walnuts. Can this be made using microwave oven?
You can try in oven also dear.
Hello doctor, the temperature mentioned is 350 degrees Celsius, i just want a clarification, is it celsius or farenheit?
I saw some other recipes for bread which calls for 180 degree c ( which converts to around 350 degrees f).Please clarify
By the way thanks for simplifying banana bread recipe for beginners like me.
Hi Aarthi, the temperature mentioned in the recipe is in farenheit, thanks for informing us about the correction.
HI – Can you put a conversion chart – ie 1 cup is how many grams and so on?
Thanks
Cheenu
HI Cheenu, we take your suggestion and thanks for that
If I want to make half the size, can I cut all the ingredients exactly in half (including hte baking powder, soda measurements). Thanks!
Yes, you can by reducing the ingredients proportionally.
Dear how to bake without oven. I don hav oven in my homr
Hi Shravani,
Here is a Whole Wheat Cake Recipe that can be done in cooker