Gluten-Free Hazelnut Banana Bread

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Shauna James Ahern, a.k.a. Gluten-Free Girl, is adamant astir utilizing value alternatively than measurement erstwhile measuring flour successful baking recipes, for precision's sake. So it's astute to person a room standard connected manus for this recipe.

Don't beryllium disquieted by the debased emergence of the loaf; that's however it's expected to be. And it's a small connected the crumbly broadside (thanks to the lack of gluten), but nary the worse for it.

The breadstuff tin beryllium stored, good wrapped, astatine country somesthesia for up to 3 days.

Adapted from "Gluten-Free Girl: American Classics Reinvented," by Shauna James Ahern and Daniel Ahern (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015).

Ingredients

For the grain-free flour mix

2 1/2 cups (300 grams) earthy buckwheat flour
Generous 2 cups (200 grams) almond flour
9 3/4 tablespoons (100 grams) finely crushed flaxseed meal
1 1/4 cups (200 grams) murphy starch
1 1/2 cups (200 grams) arrowroot flour

For the banana bread

Vegetable oil, coconut lipid oregon food for greasing the pan
1 spoon baking soda
1/2 spoon kosher salt
1/2 spoon crushed cinnamon
2 ample eggs
1/2 cupful maple syrup
About 1/3 cupful (80 grams) coconut oil, liquefied
1 spoon vanilla extract
3 ripe bananas, mashed
About 1 cupful chopped, skinned hazelnuts

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
410
Fat
24 g
Saturated Fat
10 g
Carbohydrates
45 g
Sodium
250 mg
Cholesterol
45 mg
Protein
7 g
Fiber
6 g
Sugar
21 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Gluten-Free Girl: American Classics Reinvented," by Shauna James Ahern and Daniel Ahern (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015).

Tested by T. Susan Chang.

Published December 28, 2015

Updated March 15, 2026