Banana Bread

So, my sister brought home bananas from work to my parents house when we were all visiting together around Christmas.  They were READY to be eaten!  We ate some of them, but couldn't eat them all.  I was looking at them tonight and decided to make some banana bread out of the remnant!  Here is the recipe I used (and made).

Adapted from the Spice Islands Banana-Date-Walnut Bread recipe from The Passionate Vegetarian by Crescent Dragonwagon.  http://www.passionatevegetarian.com/


Cooking spray
2 cups whole wheat flour
1/8 cup lemon juice, or the grated rind and juice of 1 organic lemon
3 extremely ripe bananas
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup coconut oil
3 tablespoons greek yogurt
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon saigon cinnamon

Preheat oven to 375 and spray your bread pan.
Cream banana, coconut oil, yogurt, lemon juice and sugar.  Set aside.
Mix in separate bowl the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon.  Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix thoroughly.
Pour mixture into your pan evenly.
Cook 40-50 minutes.  Cool 10 minutes, then set out on wire rack to cool.

Enjoy!

It's cooking right now, so I haven't tried it yet.  The original recipe calls for vegetable oil, walnuts, dates, nutmeg.... as I don't really like nuts and dates in breads, I decided to leave these out... and I don't have nutmeg, so just cinnamon will do, especially a bit more than the original recipe calls for! :-)
I really like this cookbook, as it is GIGANTIC!!! Chock-full of lovely veggie recipes!!  I usually don't follow recipes, so mostly following this one is... odd. :-)