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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, greek yogurt mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pancakes 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.
Made this bread this evening. Absolutely delicious! So light & moist! My new favorite banana bread!
I just made this one this week. So good!
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!
Can you use any other substitutes or different oils? My Olive Oil has a stronger taste that comes out when I use it for baking.
Sorry that was a question I could of answered myself I didn’t read the whole recipe.
No problem! Avocado oil, and vegetable oils both work!