Fill your kitchen with the aroma of fresh baked banana bread. We love making this high-fiber golden turmeric banana bread that’s packed with wholesome ingredients to help support healthy digestion, like our creamy whole milk kefir, bananas, and whole-wheat pastry flour. Using kefir in baked recipes makes every sweet slice fluffy and delectable!
The Benefits of Cultured Dairy for Better Health:
Research continues to show the importance of eating healthy foods, including cultured dairy such as kefir, for optimal digestion and gut health, a strong immune system, and to support the microbiome. Fermented foods like kefir hold important value in this line of research due to the link between the gut-brain axis and overall health. Specifically, kefir has been shown to help diversify the microbiome, improve digestion, reduce inflammation, support healthier blood sugar levels, and improve satiety since the bioavailable protein it contains triggers the release of GLP-1.
Lifeway Kefir is packed with variety of vital nutrients important for overall health, including bone and muscle health; these include vitamin D3, K, calcium, and vitamin B12. Along with our probiotic-rich kefir, Lifeway also offers artisan-made Farmer Cheese, a creamy high-protein cheese made with live and active cultures to support healthy muscles and healthy microbiome. Lifeway Farmer Cheese is easy to spread, free of gums and thickeners, and contains no added salt or sugar for optimal health benefits.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Farmer Cheese
- 1 cup Organic Whole Milk Plain Kefir
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- ½ cup coconut sugar
- 3 ripe medium bananas, mashed well
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ cup chocolate chips, plus some for topping
- ¼ cup sliced almonds
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350. Spray a baking pan with cooking spray to coat.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, butter and both sugars. Thoroughly combine mashed bananas, kefir, eggs and vanilla. Fold flour mixture into wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Add farmer cheese, chocolate chips, and gently fold in. Beat with a mixer to combine completely if needed.
- Scatter batter with sliced almonds and a few chocolate chips on top of the bread.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until bread is light golden brown and are springy to the touch. Let cool in pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack.
- Keep bread in an airtight container for 4-5 days.
