Vegan Gluten-Free Banana Bread

This Vegan Gluten-Free Banana Bread is made with homemade oat flour for a wholesome, nourishing, and healthy breakfast banana bread. You will love its moist texture and delicious oat flavor. 

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This Vegan Gluten-Free Banana Bread is a gluten-free alternative to my classic vegan banana bread.

The classic gluten-free banana bread from the grocery store or the bakery contains eggs, milk, and sometimes butter. So it’s not vegan-friendly. However, it’s very easy to make vegan gluten-free banana bread at home with just a few ingredients.

Why You’ll Love This

Banana bread is comfort food by excellence, and everyone deserves a piece. But banana bread can also be healthy, nourishing, and good for you. This vegan, gluten-free banana bread with oat flour is the one that ticks all these boxes.

So if you are looking for a healthy vegan banana bread recipe to start the day, then this vegan banana oat bread is the one! Oat flour, rolled oats, and nuts, this banana bread has all the healthy plant-based ingredients to supercharge your breakfast with:

• Fiber
• Protein
• Healthy fat

Ingredients and Substitutions

You only need a few ingredients to make this oat flour banana bread. First, make sure you follow my tutorial to make your own homemade oat flour. This saves time and money!

• Ripe Bananas – pick the ugly ones with black spots on the skin. I prefer darker bananas. It makes the bread sweeter.
• Oat Flour – I am using ultra-fine gluten-free homemade oat flour.
• Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats – the thick oats. Don’t use instant oats or quick-cooking oats. They make the bread dense.
• Flaxseed Egg – stir the flax meal with lukewarm water, and set it aside for 10 minutes until it forms an egg-like texture. This acts as an egg replacer in your vegan banana bread.
• Light Brown Sugar – or coconut sugar. A great unrefined sugar to give a caramel flavor and golden brown color to baking. Also, the Glycemic Index of coconut sugar is lower than brown sugar, and consequently, it releases a steady level of energy throughout the day.
• Extra Virgin Melted Coconut Oil or melted vegan butter. 
• Baking Soda and Baking Powder – for a fluffy batter.
• Ground Cinnamon – for flavor.
• Vanilla Extract – for flavor.
• Chopped Nuts or chocolate chips – feel free to stir in 1/2 cup of finely chopped pecans, walnuts, or dark chocolate chips.

You can add a half-peeled banana cut lengthwise on top of your bread just before baking. This adds moisture to your bread and an extra sweet flavor. You can create different vegan banana bread flavors by adding some of the ingredients below into the batter:

• Dark chocolate chips
• Chopped walnuts
• Chopped pecans
• Coconut 

How To Make Vegan Gluten-Free Banana Bread

1. First, peel off the bananas, place them on a chopping board, and mash them with a potato masher or a fork.
2. Measure precisely the amount of mashed banana to make the bread come out moist and hold its shape.
3. Vegan banana bread made with oat flour depends even more on the amount of banana to hold its shape.
4. Prepare the loaf pan, line the bottom and sides with parchment paper, and oil with coconut oil. Set it aside.
5. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together mashed bananas, melted coconut oil, flax egg, light brown sugar, and vanilla extract. 
6. Then, stir the dry ingredients: gluten-free oat flour, rolled oats, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon. The banana bread batter should be thick and heavy.
7. Transfer the banana bread batter into an 8-inch x 5-inch loaf pan covered with oiled parchment paper.
8. Bake on the center rack of the oven preheated to 350°F (180°C) for 55-65 minutes until a pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
9. Cool the banana bread down on a cooling rack for 2-3 hours or until it reaches room temperature.
10. Slice the bread once it’s at room temperature, not before, or the texture will be too dense and heavy.

Is Vegan Gluten-Free Banana Bread Healthy?

This vegan gluten-free banana bread is definitely the healthiest banana bread recipe you will find around. First, this banana bread recipe is much healthier than regular vegan banana bread because it’s made of oat flour instead of white flour.

Oat flour adds much more fiber and proteins to your vegan banana bread and makes the bread fulfilling for breakfast. In fact, 100 grams of oat flour brings you 16 grams of fiber and 21 grams of proteins. Note that white wheat flour contains only 2.7 grams of fiber and 10 grams of protein.

Fiber is essential for your body. It maintains healthy guts and a steady level of energy throughout the day. Next, this banana bread recipe uses coconut sugar as a sweetener. Coconut sugar contains iron, zinc, and calcium and has a lower GI than white sugar.

Finally, this easy vegan banana bread recipe calls for coconut oil which has a high amount of lauric acid, a natural anti-fungal. So this egg-free banana bread is definitely your healthy option for breakfast or afternoon tea! I hope you enjoyed this healthy vegan baking recipe! Don’t forget to Pin the recipe below to save it for later!

Serving suggestions

This vegan gluten-free banana bread is the perfect vegan breakfast bread to make toast or eat on its own. You can serve the bread at room temperature or lukewarm by warming up each slice in a bread toaster. The best spreads to add on top of this oatmeal banana bread are one or a combination of the below:

• Peanut Butter
• Almond Butter
• Maple Syrup or agave syrup
• Baby Jam

Storage

This vegan banana bread can be stored for up to 4 days in a sealed container in the fridge. I recommend slicing the banana bread just before eating, so it keeps all its moist texture. You can freeze the banana bread whole or sliced. Make sure you place the vegan banana bread in a freezer-safe container.

More Vegan Baking Recipes

If you love vegan banana recipes, I recommend the following delicious vegan recipe:

Chickpea Flour Banana Bread

Chocolate Avocado Bread

Oatmeal Banana Bread

No Sugar Added Banana Bread

Vegan Gluten-Free Banana Bread

Vegan Gluten-Free Banana Bread is an easy recipe ready in 15 minutes and made with only a few wholesome ingredients. Plus, it is a refined sugar-free and very healthy recipe.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes mins

Cook Time: 40 minutes mins

Total Time: 50 minutes mins

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Servings: 12 slices

Calories: 201 kcal

Author: Carine Claudepierre

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Ingredients

US Customary – Metric

• ▢ 2 tablespoons Flaxseed Meal
• ▢ 6 tablespoons Water
• ▢ 3 Bananas - large, ripe, with black spots on the skin (1 1/4 cup mashed)
• ▢ ¼ cup Melted Coconut Oil - unrefined, melted
• ▢ ½ cup Light Brown Sugar - or unrefined cane sugar of your choice
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence
• ▢ ½ cup Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats - not quick oats
• ▢ 2 cups Oat Flour
• ▢ 1 ½ teaspoons Baking Powder
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Cinnamon

Optional

• ▢ ½ cup Chopped Pecans - or walnuts or chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line an 8-inch x 5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
• Prepare the flax egg by whisking the flaxseed meal and lukewarm water. Set aside for 10 minutes until a gel-like texture forms.
• Peel the 3 ripe bananas, mash them with a potato masher or a fork and measure 1 cup + 1/4 cup of mashed bananas.
• In a large mixing bowl, add mashed bananas, flax egg, melted coconut oil, vanilla, and light brown sugar. Stir to combine.
• Stir in old-fashioned rolled oats, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and oat flour.
• Stir in chopped walnuts if desired and combine in the batter with a spoon.
• Pour the banana bread batter into the prepared loaf tin.
• Bake at 350°C (180°C) for 55-65 minutes or until golden brown and a skewer inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean or with few crumbs. You can tent the loaf pan after 30 minutes with a piece of foil to avoid the top to brown too fast.
• Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then lift out the bread from the pan using the hanging pieces of parchment paper
• Cool the banana bread on a rack for 3 hours or until it reaches room temperature before slicing.
• Slice the bread into 12 slices once it has cooled to room temperature. Store in the fridge in a sealed box for up to 4 days or freeze for later.

Notes

Sweetener note

• Coconut sugar can be replaced with cane sugar or brown sugar.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 201kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 152mg | Potassium: 215mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 19IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 55mg | Iron: 1mg | Magnesium: 47mg | Phosphorus: 130mg | Zinc: 1mg