Lunch: Banana Bread French Toast

Transform everyone's favorite quickbread into the ultimate banana bread French toast topped with sliced bananas and maple syrup.

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Cinnamon

Health and fertility benefits of Banana Bread French Toast

Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 ripe bananas, mashed well (about 1 1/2 cups)
1/4 cup buttermilk
6 large eggs
6 Tablespoons butter, melted and cooled, plus additional for frying
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup whole milk
2 teaspoons cinnamon
Maple syrup, for serving
Sliced bananas, for garnish (optional)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 ºF.
Grease and flour a loaf pan and set aside.
Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, mix mashed bananas, buttermilk, 2 eggs, 6 tablespoons butter and vanilla until well combined.
Lightly fold banana mixture into dry ingredients with rubber spatula just until combined and batter looks thick and chunky.
Scrape batter into prepared loaf pan. Bake about 55 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Allow the banana bread to cool fully, then slice into 1/2-inch thick slices.
In a medium, shallow pan, whisk together the remaining 4 eggs with the whole milk and cinnamon. Set aside.
Heat a large non-stick pan over medium heat. Add 2 to 3 tablespoons of butter to the pan.
Dip one of the slices of banana bread into the egg mixture, coating it on both sides. Allow the excess liquid to drip off then transfer the coated bread to the hot skillet. Pan-fry the bread for about 3 minutes per side, then repeat the coating and frying process (adding more butter to the pan as needed) with the remaining slices of bread.
Serve the banana bread French toast warm, topped with maple syrup and sliced bananas (optional).

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