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Recipe: Healthy Zucchini Breakfast Bread

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I love veggies in my baking! Zucchini is a personal favourite, especially when paired with nuts or dark chocolate. Today I’m sharing a healthy Zucchini Breakfast Bread which is so delicious on its own or paired with a spoonful of almond butter on top. This low-sugar loaf is packed with fibre (happy digestion), Vitamin C (hello glowing skin!) and sweetened with raw honey (rockin’ immune system). I love the simplicity of this loaf. I know you will love it, too. Let’s make some healthy Zucchini Breakfast Bread!

Why I love this bread for breakfast:

  • It’s packed with fibre, protein and healthy fats to help support hormones, digestion and healthy skin.
  • Spelt flour contains more nutrients and more fibre than regular wheat flour. This, plus the way that spelt is structured, help make spelt much easier to digest for people who are sensitive to wheat or gluten.
  • It’s warming and comforting – because sometimes it’s just too darn cold for a smoothie!
  • ceylon cinnamon is known to be naturally blood sugar balancing and anti-inflammatory

If you like baking, you might want to also try these health-ified recipes:

This is the spelt flour I like.

Healthy Zucchini Breakfast Bread
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Healthy Zucchini Breakfast Bread

Recipe by The Pure Life
Servings

10

servings
Prep time

15

minutes
Cooking time

1

hour 

A low-sugar breakfast bread, perfect with your morning tea!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups wholemeal spelt flour

  • 3/4 cup rolled oats

  • 1 cup chopped walnuts

  • 1 small zucchini

  • 2 pasture-raised eggs or flax eggs for a vegan version

  • 1/3 cup melted coconut oil

  • 1/2 cup almond milk

  • 1/2 cup honey

  • spices: 1 tsp cinnamon, 2 pinches sea salt

  • 1 tsp baking soda

  • 1 tbsp baking powder

Directions

  • Preheat your oven to 350F.
  • In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, oats, walnuts, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Mix well.
  • Grate the zucchini and dry it in a clean dish towel or paper towel. Add to the bowl along with the almond milk, honey and coconut oil.
  • In a small bowl, whisk the two eggs and then add those in. If you doing a vegan version, you could substitute for a flax egg by combining 2 tbsp ground flax with 4 tbsp water. I haven’t tried it yet but it should work just fine.
  • Mix everything well, until no clumps are left, but don’t overmix. Add to the oven and bake for 1 hour until golden brown – do the toothpick test. Store in the fridge for up to 1 week. Toast with nut butter or enjoy fresh.

Notes

  • Instead of coconut oil, olive oil and macadamia nut oil are great options, too! I’ve tried both and they came out delicious.

  1. Jacqui Wyman says:
    January 12, 2020 at 5:32 pm

    Lovely loaf, delicious in flavour and moist! I added some salted grass fed butter and drizzled honey after slicing. Will definitely make again!

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