Author Notes
Once you are released from gluten, you find out something you didn't know when you automatically reached for that bag of all-purpose bleached wheat flour. Flours have flavors.
It's true. Flours have flavors. Quinoa flour is a little grassy, very savory. Buckwheat is nutty, sometimes toasted nutty if you use toasted buckwheat flour. Teff flour has a faint chocolate, molasses taste. If you choose the flours you use for the baked good you want to make by the ingredients you intend to stir together, you might stop thinking about gluten altogether. You'll choose the flours you have for how they can make a banana bread good enough to make small children say yum after they take their first bite. This is that banana bread. —shauna.ahern
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Ingredients
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100
grams finely ground almond flour
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60
grams arrowroot powder
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50
grams buckwheat flour
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1 teaspoon
baking soda
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1/2 teaspoon
kosher salt
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1/2 cup
maple syrup (we prefer grade B)
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2
large eggs
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80
grams coconut oil, melted
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1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
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3
ripe large bananas
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3/4 cup
crushed hazelnuts
Directions
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Preparing to bake. Heat the oven to 375° F. Grease a 1-pound loaf pan.
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Mixing the dry ingredients. Whisk together the almond flour, arrowroot powder, and buckwheat flour in a large bowl. (If you want to really aerate your flour, pulse them together in the food processor before beginning to bake.) Add the baking soda and salt and whisk them all together. Set aside.
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Combining the wet ingredients. In another bowl, stir together the maple syrup, eggs, coconut oil, and vanilla. Mash the bananas, add them, and whisk until everything is combined well.
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Finishing the batter. Add the dry ingredients to the wet, stirring as you go, a bit at a time. When all the flour has disappeared into the batter, and you can't find any more hiding at the bottom of the bowl, add the hazelnuts and stir.
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Baking the banana bread. Pour the banana bread batter into the greased pan. Bake until the banana bread is springy to the touch, the edges are pulling away from the pan, and the top is browned, about 45 to 60 minutes.
Cool before slicing.
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