How to make Deliciously Ella's perfect healthy banana bread

Stirred together in minutes, this yummy banana and olive oil loaf from How To Go Plant-Based: A Definitive Guide For You And Your Family by Ella Mills keeps well and tastes amazing 

Banana and olive oil loaf. Picture: Clare Winfield.

“I make this recipe all the time for the girls, it’s brilliant and they absolutely love it,” says Deliciously Ella founder and mum-of-two, Ella Mills.

“It’s soft and spongy and the prunes or dates make the loaf lovely and sweet – you really don’t miss sugar at all. It’s perfect on its own, but equally delicious as a pudding with coconut yoghurt.”

Ella Mills’ Banana and Olive Oil Loaf

With no added sugar, this nutty loaf is a guilt-free sweet treat.

Servings

8

Preparation Time

 5 mins

Cooking Time

 60 mins

Total Time

 1 hours 5 mins

Course

 Baking

Cuisine

 British

Ingredients

• 200g self-raising flour, sifted

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 3 very ripe bananas, mashed

• 4 tbsp coconut yoghurt

• 75ml olive oil, plus extra for greasing

• 1 tsp vanilla bean paste

• 100g prunes or medjool dates, chopped

• 1 tbsp ground flaxseed

• 75g sultanas or raisins

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 160°C fan.

2. Grease a 900g loaf tin and line with baking parchment.

3. In a large bowl, mix together the flour and baking powder.

4. 5In a separate bowl, mix together the banana, coconut yoghurt, olive oil, vanilla, prunes and flaxseed. Stir in the sultanas.

5. Add the banana mixture to the flour and mix well – it will seem dry at first but it will come together.

6. Pour the mixture into the loaf tin, level out the top and bake for 50–60 minutes, until risen and golden. Test with a skewer – if it comes out clean the loaf is ready.

7. Leave to cool in the tin for 15 minutes before turning out.
   
   How To Go Plant-Based: A Definitive Guide For You And Your Family by Ella Mills is published by Yellow Kite, priced £26. Photography by Clare Winfield.