Dr. Weil's Banana Bread

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 3 very ripe bananas
• 1/2 cup honey
• 3 tablespoons expeller-pressed canola oil, plus a little more for oiling the loaf pan
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup chopped walnuts or 3/4 cup pecans

Recipe

• 1 heat the oven to 350°f lightly oil a 9" x 5" loaf pan.
• 2 mash the bananas and mix with the honey, canola oil and vanilla extract.
• 3 stir together the whole-wheat pastry flour, baking soda and salt. add the nuts.
• 4 blend the wet and dry mixtures together and spoon into the loaf pan.
• 5 bake for about 40 minutes, or until the center is set.
• 6 cool slightly in the pan, then remove and finish cooling on a wire rack.