Sprouted Wheat Banana Bread
From jo_jo_ba 16 years ago
- 80 minutes to make
- Serves 10
You've heard of sprouted wheat bread, right? Well, how about this! This was a total fluke of my imagination - I had entries for two blog events coming due and no need for a ton of bread lying around, so I did the next best thing - banana bread! Read more It freezes beautifully and is full of fibre and nutrients. The texture is dense and moist like any good banana bread, but with a delicious hint of nuttiness from the wheat berries. This takes a while to do, but it's a special sort of bread! Delicious warm (or toasted!) with some honey butter :-). See less
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup wheat berries shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour shopping list
- 2 tsp baking powder shopping list
- 1/2 tbsp cinnamon shopping list
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger shopping list
- 1/4 tsp salt shopping list
- 1/2 cup brown sugar shopping list
- 4 large over-ripe bananas, mashed shopping list
- 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce shopping list
- 1 tbsp canola oil shopping list
- 1/2 tbsp vanilla (use the real stuff if you can!) shopping list
How to make it
- Soak wheat berries in cool water for 8 hours. Drain, rinse and drain again.
- Put the wheat berries in a sprouting container (a jar covered with mesh or pantyhose works) and place it in a cabinet or closet out of sunlight.
- Rinse your wheat berries and drain them thoroughly every 8 hours for 2 days.
- Bring a small pot of water to a boil.
- Add sprouts, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes. Drain.
- Transfer sprouts to a blender or small food processor and puree almost smooth (you won't get a perfect puree - trust me!). Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, and grease a loaf pan.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger and salt.
- In a separate bowl, mix wheat berry puree, brown sugar, mashed bananas, applesauce, oil and vanilla.
- Add to the dry ingredients, stirring until just blended.
- Bake for 50 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes before turning out to cool completely.
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
Great one! Will try it this weekend. Will write soon. I have two birthday cakes to make tomorrow.
I've had a big month of birthdays.
Kath:}
tippystclair
in North Hollywood loved it
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Great bannanna bread thanks
momo_55grandma
in Mountianview loved it
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yum! Nice one..wish I had all the ingredients...I'd bake some tonite!
jett2whit
in Union City loved it
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