Low Fat Banana Zucchini Bread
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INGREDIENTS
  • Cooking Time: 60
  • Servings: 4
  • Preparation Time: 10
  • 1 cup white flour
  • 1 cup wheat flour
  • 1 cup rolled oat (Quaker old fashioned oats)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 4 eggs (or Egg Beaters to cut some calories)
  • 1 1/4 cups white sugar
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 1/2 cup applesauce
  • 2 medium overripe bananas, mashed (the riper, the sweeter)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 cups shredded zucchini
  • 1 cup raisins (or dates or walnuts)
DIRECTIONS
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F degrees.
  2. Whisk together white flour, wheat flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and salt.
  3. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs.
  4. Add the sugar, oil, applesauce, and mashed bananas to the eggs; mix well an Add the vanilla.
  5. Combine the wet and dry mixtures. Stir until just combined.
  6. Fold in the zucchini and raisins.
  7. Pour into 2 lightly greased loaf pans (9x5-inch).
  8. Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a knife comes out clean
RECIPE BACKSTORY
I saw it somewhere on the net and at first i thought that the zucchini is not more than a twist in this bread but i tried it and i can say now that this is a very improved banana bread :) Enjoy !! :)