Showing posts with label fun with substitutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fun with substitutions. Show all posts

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Blueberry Banana Ginger Breakfast Bread



So, what to do with all my leftovers?

After some intrepid Googling, I found this recipe for Blueberry-Banana Muffins with ginger.

I adapted it to work with the ingredients I had on hand, and my laziness. Namely, substituting rice flour for whole wheat flour, fresh ginger for dried, adding more sugar, and using whole flaxseed instead of ground because I didn't feel like grinding.

This is NOT a low-FODMAP food, due to all that wheat flour and who knows what else. But it was delicious. In fact, it only made for 4 servings. Cost-wise it's a disaster on its own, but given I'd already bought all these ingredients for other purposes at some point, it worked out well.

Ingredients:

1 cup rolled oats
½ cup all-purpose unbleached wheat flour
½ cup brown rice flour
¼ cup whole flaxseed
1½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
1 tbsp candied (crystallized) ginger, very finely diced
1 egg
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup white sugar
1 tsp fresh mashed ginger
¼ cup canola oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1½ cups ripe bananas, mashed (about 3 large)

1 carton fresh blueberries

Instructions:

1. Combine dry ingredients (oats, flours, flaxseed, baking powder, baking soda, salt, candied ginger) and set aside. 
2. In a new bowl, beat sugars, egg, oil, and vanilla extract; add ginger and banana and mix well. 
3. Mix together with dry ingredients. Fold in blueberries. 
4. Pour mixture into a well-greased bread loaf pan. 
5. Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 10 minutes or so. 

It was very, very moist, and could have been cooked a little longer. And perhaps taken fewer blueberries. But it was good! Success!