Do you have too much bread in the house or bread that is getting stale, and ripe bananas? Then make this yummy, healthy bread pudding with bananas and stale bread!
Healthy Bread Pudding With Bananas and Stale Bread
When I got my Peapod order, they had been very generous with the bananas, and we needed to use them now.
We also had a lot of stale bread in the fridge that had accumulated in a week or two, and instead of throwing it out or making croutons with it, I checked out Pinterest for recipes that include stale bread.
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I had to find a recipe that worked for the ingredients I had at home as we are currently snowed in, and I didn’t feel like braving the snowy roads.
I found many recipes for bread pudding. Of course making bread pudding had come to my mind right away, but silly me thought you needed a pudding mix for it — which I definitely didn’t have in the house.
We aren’t pudding people.
So I kind of winging the whole recipe and even added a ripe banana to it. And it turned out yummy with half the ingredients of the original recipe.
Landon ate two servings once it came out of the oven. Kid approved, yes!
Here is my recipe for super-easy, yummy, gooey bread pudding with bananas.
Bread Pudding With Stale Bread and Ripe Banana
Ingredients:
- 6 rolls or 6 slices of bread
- 1 ripe banana
- 3 eggs
- 3 cups of whole milk (I only had lowfat milk)
- 1 cup of sugar (I also used a bit of Xylitol)
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- butter to butter the dish
- optional: I added 1 tsp vanilla extract and 1 tsp of chia seed/flax seed mix
- for a richer bread pudding, substitute 1 cup of heavy cream for milk
baking dish (mine is 8 x 12)
Bread Pudding With Bananas Instructions:
1. Cut the bread into cubes.
2. Butter your dish and add the bread to it.
3. Mix all the other ingredients together in a separate bowl and pour the mixture over the bread.
You want the bread to be almost covered with the mixture. I had to add another egg and more milk to have enough.
4. Push the bread down with your hand so all the pieces soak up the mixture.
5. Then put the dish into the fridge for 15 minutes and start warming up the oven to 400 degrees F.
6. If all of the mixture soaked into the bread, add a little more milk.
7. Bake for 30 minutes or until the top springs back when lightly touched. You still want a little bit of moisture.
I didn’t add sauce to the bread pudding because this is a pretty healthy recipe and I didn’t want to turn it into a calorie bomb, but you can find many recipes for bread pudding sauces online.
Or simply add maple syrup or whipped cream to the top.
L and I enjoyed our bread pudding just like this. I might have added a few chocolate chips to his portion.
Have you ever made bread pudding? Now is the time!
I hope you feel inspired to make this easy dessert.
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