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This greek yogurt banana bread is a delicious, fluffy, homemade bread full of banana flavor. This recipe is easy to make, easy to customize and is made with healthier ingredients like olive oil, coconut sugar and greek yogurt.
I love making banana bread using greek yogurt. It adds a nice texture and is a great replacement for sour cream or butter. It also is a great source of protein, which is nice to add to delicious banana bread.
I have found myself using greek yogurt a lot in many of my recipes lately with great success. My greek yogurt pancakes, greek yogurt chicken salad, and greek yogurt mashed potatoes are a few of my favorite recipes.
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Why this recipe is great
- This banana bread is delicious and fluffy with a soft crumb, all while being made with healthier ingredients.
- It is easy to make! It takes all of 10 minutes to prepare and then it bakes in the oven for less than an hour.
- It is easy to customize. Don’t have coconut sugar? Use brown sugar. Don’t like chocolate chips, add nuts!
Recipe ingredients
- Greek yogurt– you can use full fat or lowfat greek yogurt. Your standard 5.3 oz serving should yield about 1/2 cup. Make sure to use greek yogurt without added flavors or sugars.
- Olive oil– any type of extra virgin olive oil works for this recipe.
- Bananas– make sure they are ripe for maximum banana flavor.
- Eggs-these bind the banana bread batter together.
- Coconut sugar– this has a lower glycemic index than other kinds of sugar.
- Vanilla extract– use any kind of vanilla extract of your choice, both with or without alcohol.
- Flour– all purpose flour works best for this recipe.
- Baking soda– this helps the bread to rise.
- Cinnamon– make sure to use a good quality cinnamon for the best flavor.
- Chocolate Chips– semi-sweet chocolate chips are my favorite here, but use whatever you have on hand.
See recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.
Additions/ Substitutions
- Instead of coconut sugar, you can use brown sugar at a 1:1 ratio.
- Instead of 1 cup of chocolate chips, you can use 1 cup of nuts, such as walnuts.
- Instead of olive oil, you can use avocado oil.
- You can add other spices to this banana bread such as nutmeg or all spice.
Step by step instructions
Step 1: In one bowl, mix the greek yogurt, olive oil, eggs, mashed bananas, sugar, and vanilla together.
Step 2: Mix the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon together.
Step 3: Pour the bowl of wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients and mix.
Step 4: Whisk in the chocolate chips.
Step 5: Pour the banana bread batter into a parchment lined loaf tin.
Step 6: Bake until golden.
Expert tips
- If you only have 2 bananas on hand, you can still make this recipe! Just use 1 cup of sugar in the recipe instead of 1/2 cup.
- If you notice the top of the banana bread getting too brown while baking, top the banana bread with aluminum foil for the last 10-15 minutes of baking.
- How to store: Cover the banana bread and store on the kitchen counter for 3-4 days. You can also cover it in an airtight container or bag and refrigerate it for 6-7 days.
- How to freeze: Wait until the banana bread is completely cooled. Then you can freeze it whole by putting it into a freezer safe ziploc bag. Or you can slice it and separate each slice with parchment paper and put into a freezer safe bag.
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Greek Yogurt Banana Bread
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup greek yogurt
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 eggs
- 3 bananas
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar, or brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup chocolate chips, or nuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line and grease a 9 in x 5 in loaf tin. I line mine with parchment paper and grease it with an olive oil spray. Put the oven rack in the middle of the oven.
- Mash the bananas in a small bowl.
- In a large bowl add the greek yogurt, olive oil, eggs, mashed bananas, sugar, and vanilla. Mix until everything is blended together.
- In another large bowl, add the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Mix with a fork.
- Pour the bowl of dry ingredients into the bowl of wet ingredients and mix until banana bread batter forms.
- Fold in the chocolate chips or nuts.
- Pour the banana bread batter into the lined loaf tin. Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a knife comes out clean.
Notes
- If you only have 2 bananas on hand, you can still make this recipe! Just use 1 cup of sugar in the recipe instead of 1/2 cup.
- If you notice the top of the banana bread getting too brown while baking, top the banana bread with aluminum foil for the last 10-15 minutes of baking.
- How to store: Cover the banana bread and store on the kitchen counter for 3-4 days. You can also cover it in an airtight container or bag and refrigerate it for 6-7 days.
- How to freeze: Wait until the banana bread is completely cooled. Then you can freeze it whole by putting it into a freezer safe ziploc bag. Or you can slice it and separate each slice with parchment paper and put into a freezer safe bag.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
My family loves this banana bread warm fresh from the oven! We also love to slather a slice with almond butter on top. Let me know if you try it!