High-Protein Cottage Cheese Banana Bread
Nutrition per serving
Ingredients
- 3 ripe bananas, mashed (about 300g)
- 250g cottage cheese, blended smooth
- 3 large eggs
- 150g oat flour
- 2 tbsp honey
- 40g walnuts, roughly chopped
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
Heat the oven to 175°C and line a loaf tin with baking paper; mash the bananas and blend the cottage cheese until completely smooth.
Stir the mashed bananas into the blended cottage cheese, then whisk in the eggs, honey, and vanilla until combined.
Fold in the oat flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and walnuts, stirring only until no flour remains — do not overmix.
Pour the batter into the tin, smooth the top, and scatter over extra chopped walnuts.
Bake for 45–50 minutes until golden and a skewer comes out clean from the centre.
Cool for 15 minutes in the tin, then turn out onto a rack, slice into 8 slices, and serve.
Banana bread is usually a sugar bomb in a healthy disguise, and this version flips that around. Blended cottage cheese keeps the crumb soft and moist while adding real protein, and the ripe bananas do most of the sweetening themselves. A slice of this with your morning coffee actually keeps you full — which is what a dependable breakfast is supposed to do.
