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Bran Banana Bread

Modified: Mar 15, 2025 · Published: May 5, 2021 by Anna · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

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Bran Banana Bread is a combination of two breakfast favorites, bran and banana.  I make it with unprocessed wheat bran, coconut oil and coconut sugar, so it's healthy-ish but not at all dry. It is egg-free, so you can easily make it completely vegan by substituting another milk for the buttermilk. A little soy or almond milk mixed with lemon juice should do the trick.

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Bran Banana Bread Notes

I really love this recipe and hope it works for others. I make it in an 8x4 inch loaf (1 pound capacity) but have also halved it and baked in a 5.75x3 loaf pan (mini). If you only have a 9x5 inch loaf pan you can still make it, it just won't be quite as tall. As mentioned, I use coconut sugar, but regular sugar or even brown sugar is fine. However, you don't really need to use brown sugar because the recipe has 2 tablespoons of molasses.

Substituting with Allulose

If you are trying to seriously cut sugar, you might consider substituting ½ cup of allulose (it's less sweet, so you need more) for the 6 tablespoon of coconut sugar. I haven't tested this exact recipe with allulose, but I've made very similar substitutions and it works just fine.

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Recipe

Bran Banana Loaf

Bran Banana Bread

Anna
A very tasty banana bread with loads of fiber.
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 45 minutes mins
Total Time 55 minutes mins
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 8
Calories 224 kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour 170 grams
  • 1 ¼ cup unprocessed bran 80 grams
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 ½ large mashed bananas 280 grams
  • 6 tablespoons sugar or coconut sugar 70 grams
  • ¼ cup coconut oil 52 grams
  • 2 tablespoons molasses 40 grams
  • ⅓ cup buttermilk (or a vegan milk) 80 grams
  • ⅓ cup walnuts or pecans coarsely chopped

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8x4 inch loaf pan. Line with a little strip of parchment, then grease again.
  • In a large bowl, stir together the flour, bran, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
  • In a mixing bowl, stir together the mashed banana, sugar, coconut oil, molasses and buttermilk.
  • Add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and stir until blended.
  • Scrape into the pan, sprinkle nuts on top and bake for about 45 minutes.
  • Let cool completely.

Notes

For the bananas, I used 280-300 grams.  This is about 2 ½ bananas, but of course that depends on how large your bananas are.

Nutrition

Serving: 1large slice (⅛)Calories: 224kcal
Keyword banana, Bran, loaf pan, Small
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  1. Anna says

    November 25, 2024 at 3:18 pm

    Thank you for letting me know that, Pina. I will keep adding gram weights to recipes.

  2. Pina says

    November 25, 2024 at 3:15 pm

    I like how you wrote the cups and grams for weach item. It is definitely a time saver. Thank you

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