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Cottage cheese banana bread

Name: Cottage cheese banana bread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: 3 very ripe overripe bananas, mashed; 1 cup cottage cheese, blended smooth; 2 egg; 1 2/3 cups whole wheat flour; 3/4 cup oatmeal; 1/3 cup packed brown sugar; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped

Banana bread with blended cottage cheese doing the work of the butter and half the sugar. Same dense, moist crumb — with protein that survives being called cake.

Time: 70 min (15 prep + 55 cook)
Servings: 10
Per serving: 233 kcal
Protein: 9 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

3 very ripe overripe bananas, mashed350 g
1 cup cottage cheese, blended smooth250 g
2 egg100 g
1 2/3 cups whole wheat flour200 g
3/4 cup oatmeal60 g
1/3 cup packed brown sugar70 g
1 tsp baking soda5 g
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon3 g
1 tsp vanilla extract5 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped (optional)50 g

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Steps

Blend the cottage cheese completely smooth before anything else — visible curds bake into pale specks.
Mix with the mashed banana, eggs and vanilla, then fold in the dry ingredients until just combined.
Into a lined loaf tin, walnuts on top.
Bake at 175°C for 50–55 minutes, tenting with foil at 35 if it browns fast. Cool fully in the tin — cottage cheese loaves are fragile hot and firm up completely as they cool.

Alternative

Banana breadthe butter-and-sugar original9

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

15% of kcal

44% water

16 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 2325 kcal goes into the pot, 1096 g of ingredients comes out as ~900 g of food → 258 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 258
Protein: (15%); 10 g
Fat: (25%); 7 g
Carbohydrates: (59%); 38 g
of which sugar: 14 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sodium: 424 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.