Banana Blueberry Bread Recipe

We had some bananas that were left over and too ripe to eat, so I went in search of a recipe to use them with. I wanted to make a bread, but something different than the normal Banana Bread that I make.

I found this recipe from Cooking Light and remembered that I had some blueberries in the freezer from this past summer. The recipe calls for grits, but even though I'm southern and love grits, I didn't want to chance a gritty texture in my bread. I swapped that part out for oats and the bread turned out fantastic!

Ingredients
(makes 1 loaf - 16 slices)
* 1 cup all-purpose flour
* 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
* 3/4 cup uncooked quick-cooking grits (I used quick cooking rolled oats)
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
* 3 tablespoons canola oil
* 1 cup mashed ripe banana(I used two large bananas)
* 3/4 cup blueberries
* 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
* Cooking spray

Preparation
Preheat oven to 350°.

Lightly spoon flours into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flours, grits oats, sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a large bowl; make a well in center of mixture. Combine oil, banana, blueberries, and eggs; add to flour mixture. Stir just until moist.

Spoon batter into an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.  Mine took about 45 minutes MAX, so be sure to check yours starting at 40 minutes. Cool bread in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack. Remove bread from pan, and cool completely on wire rack(haha....I like my bread warm and NEVER cool it, I dumbed it out on a plate as soon as it came out of the oven.  I let it cool for about 5 minutes so I wouldn't burn my tongue on a blueberry).

I absolutely love this bread. It is my new favorite thing to eat for breakfast and I just bought some more bananas solely for the purpose of having them ripen for this recipe!

Nutritional Information
Calories: 145 (25% from fat)
Fat: 3.6g (sat 0.4g,mono 1.8g,poly 1g)
Protein: 3g
Carbohydrate: 25.9g
Fiber: 1.4g
Cholesterol: 27mg
Iron: 0.9mg
Sodium: 116mg
Calcium: 15mg