Friday, March 4, 2011

Gluten-Free Banana Bread


This bread was made with quinoa flour and almond meal. You can easily replace the quinoa with rice flour if desired.
The butter used here can also be replaced with vegetable oil, if you want to make this dairy-free.

Dry ingredients:
1 cup quinoa flour (I just grind quinoa in the coffee grinder. This is much cheaper than buying the pre-ground flour)
1 cup ground almonds or almond meal
2 tsp (gluten-free) baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground cardamon
a pinch of nutmeg
a pinch of salt

Wet ingredients:
3 eggs
3 very ripe bananas
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup melted butter, or vegetable oil
1/4 cup applesauce
Heat oven to 340F/170C.

Grease a bread pan and sprinkle some almond meal, or just line it with baking paper. This will make it easier to take the bread out of the pan.

Mix the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients together.
Combine these two without over mixing them.
Bake for approximately 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean.
The bread is edible right away, but it will be firmer
after cooling.

* Serve with Honey.

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