Posted on
February 10, 2026 by
The VRG Weblog Editor
by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD
The bananas I purchased per week in the past all went from mild inexperienced to yellow with a lot of black spots seemingly in a single day. I might odor bananas after I walked into the kitchen. It was time to make banana bread.
I had a recipe in my recordsdata for almond butter banana bread and had famous that it was effective however nothing particular. That made me begin fascinated about creating a recipe utilizing one other nut butter. Whereas I like the mix of peanut butter and bananas, that wasn’t the flavour I used to be eager about. Hmm, perhaps a seed butter … I questioned if it could work to create a banana bread recipe with tahini changing among the oil. I wished the sesame style to predominate so, as a substitute of the chopped walnuts I normally use in banana bread, I used toasted sesame seeds. I used to be happy with the loaf of banana bread. It solely used one bowl, so clean-up was easy. It was candy sufficient to function dessert however not so candy that the sesame taste was hidden. The one change I’d make subsequent time can be so as to add some chopped dried apricots.
Tahini Banana Bread
(makes 1 loaf)
2 Tablespoons floor flaxseeds
5 Tablespoons water
1 cup well-mashed ripe bananas (about 3 medium bananas)
3 Tablespoons tahini
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil (I used canola oil; different impartial flavored plant oils would work)
½ cup vegan sugar
¼ cup unflavored oat milk
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (might use half entire wheat pastry flour)
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon nutmeg
¼ cup toasted sesame seeds
Preheat oven to 350 levels. Evenly oil a 9” x 5” x 3” loaf pan.
Mix floor flaxseeds and water in a small cup and put aside for a couple of minutes.
In a big bowl, mix mashed bananas, tahini, and oil and blend properly. Add sugar, oat milk, and flaxseed combination and stir till mixed. Add flour, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg, and blend, stirring solely till the dry components are combined in. Fold within the sesame seeds. The batter can be thick. Spoon into the ready loaf pan. Bake 50 to 60 minutes or till carried out. Place the baking pan on a wire rack to chill earlier than eradicating from pan and slicing.
