HEALTHY PUMPKIN BREAD {MOIST & DELICIOUS!}

Call me crazy, but I started experimenting with this healthy pumpkin bread recipe since at start of the summer! The first trial run was in May sometime and it was a complete failure. I was trying to make the recipe with blended-up old fashioned oats and no refined flour.

Unfortunately I was never able to get a bread that worked with only oats.

Ones that tasted good? Yes, actually they did! They just weren’t very “sliceable” and tended to burn around the edges and tops. The insides were actually pretty delicious though.

Flash forward many more trial runs to a bread that I am confident is one of the best healthy pumpkin bread recipes you’ll find. And as a bonus, it doesn’t burn on the tops or sides 🙂

Ingredients

• 1 cup pumpkin*
• 1/2 cup vanilla Greek yogurt (must be Greek yogurt)
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup coconut oil, measured when melted
• 3/4 cup brown sugar, lightly packed
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 cup flour, all-purpose white or white-whole wheat (regular whole wheat not recommended)
• 1/2 cup oat flour (blended up old fashioned oats)
• 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips or chopped nuts optional

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a bread pan (I use 4.5 x 8.5 inch pan) and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, stir together the pumpkin, Greek yogurt, egg, vanilla, coconut oil (measure in MELTED and slightly cooled form), and brown sugar until well combined.
3. In another bowl, stir together the baking soda, salt, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, flour, and oat flour (measure oat flour AFTER blending the oats; to make oat flour, put old fashioned or quick oats in a blender and pulse them until they resemble flour). Stir in chocolate chips or nuts if desired. You don't need to use chocolate or nuts for this bread, but if you leave them out I recommend adding 1 additional teaspoon pumpkin pie spice.
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