📋Healthy Rhubarb Bread Recipe

healthy rhubarb bread on a cutting board with 3 pieces sliced

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📋Healthy Rhubarb Bread Recipe

This Healthy Rhubarb Bread is light, moist, and delicious! It's also loaded with healthy ingredients like Greek yogurt, unsweetened coconut, and applesauce, orange, whole wheat and cinnamon. You can use fresh or frozen rhubarb and it makes a great breakfast, snack or dessert.

Course Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American, Canadian, North American

Keyword bread, healthy, rhubarb

Special Diet Vegetarian

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1

Servings servings

Calories 129kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Equipment

Ingredients

1 ½ cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
⅓ cup unsweetened coconut (medium)
½ cup brown sugar
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup freshly squeezed orange juice * the juice from about 1 large orange about 2 medium oranges
1 cup non- fat plain Greek yogurt 0%
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon orange zest
2 cups fresh rhubarb, chopped into ½ inch pieces 1.5 cups if using frozen rhubarb (measured AFTER being defrosted and drained)

Garnish (optional)

grated orange
additional coconut

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F/190 degrees C. Spray 2 loaf pans
Stir two types of flours, baking powder, baking soda, brown sugar, coconut, and cinnamon together in a separate bowl.
1 ½ cup all purpose flour, 1 cup whole wheat flour, ⅓ cup unsweetened coconut (medium), ½ cup brown sugar, 2 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
In a large bowl, whisk together oil, greek yogurt, orange juice, orange zest, applesauce, eggs and vanilla extract.
½ cup freshly squeezed orange juice * the juice from about 1 large orange, 1 cup non- fat plain Greek yogurt, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce, 1 teaspoon orange zest, ¼ cup vegetable oil
Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture and mix until just combined.
Fold in the chopped rhubarb.
2 cups fresh rhubarb, chopped into ½ inch pieces
Pour into 2 separate loaf pans.
Bake on middle rack for about 40- 50 minutes (or until a cake tester or toothpick comes out clean.)
If the bread is browning too fast on top,(check at 30-35 minutes) loosely cover the top with aluminum foil and return to oven.
Cool for 5 minutes, then move to cooling rack and cool for another 5 minutes. Cut when it's completely cooled.

Garnish (optional)

Sprinkle grated orange and coconut over the top of the loaf
grated orange, additional coconut

Notes

*Please see post contents for important recipe information, substitution and tips!

**Note: if you are using fresh rhubarb, you may need to add an additional 1-2 tbsps of orange juice to this recipe IF it looks drier than the batter in photo

***Note: You can also make 1 loaf and 12 muffins. *Bake the muffins for about 18 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. *Do NOT use paper liners if you are using muffins (they will stick), use silicone or parchment

Nutrition Facts

📋Healthy Rhubarb Bread Recipe

Amount Per Serving (1 slice)

Calories 129 Calories from Fat 36

% Daily Value*

Fat 4g6%

Saturated Fat 1g6%

Trans Fat 0.01g

Polyunsaturated Fat 1g

Monounsaturated Fat 2g

Cholesterol 17mg6%

Sodium 68mg3%

Potassium 150mg4%

Carbohydrates 19g6%

Fiber 1g4%

Sugar 7g8%

Protein 4g8%

Vitamin A 48IU1%

Vitamin C 4mg5%

Calcium 50mg5%

Iron 1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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