Zucchini Bread, Lightened Up

Zucchini Bread, Lightened Up
Servings: 2
Lunch

Nutrition per Serving

0 Calories
0g Protein
0g Carbs
0g Fat
I get a bit nervous when it comes to “lightening up” recipes since I’ve had both successes and (massive) failures in doing so. Most memorably, there was the time I substituted in whole wheat flour for all-purpose when I was making doughnut holes. The resu

Ingredients

3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 1/2 cups Splenda sugar substitute 1 cup unsweetened apple sauce 4 eggs, beaten 1/3 cup water 2 cups grated zucchini 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 ºF. Combine the flour, salt, nutmeg, baking soda, cinnamon and Splenda in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine the apple sauce, eggs, water, zucchini and lemon juice. Mix the wet ingredients into the dry then fold in the nuts (optional). Pour the batter into 2 standard loaf pans (or five mini-loaf pans) that have been greased with cooking spray. Bake the standard-sized loaves for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean (alternately, bake the mini-loaves for 25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean).

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