I had Plyoburn bright and early this morning! Since it is an hour of cardio and weights, I eat my carbs before the workout and my protein immediately afterwords. This zucchini bread (and all of my muffins) are the perfect pre-workout breakfast. Then, right after class, I get a whey protein smoothie with fruit to replenish the glycogen stores quickly.
I am looking forward to having this in vanilla greek yogurt with cashew butter tomorrow morning!
Vegan Zucchini-Carrot Bread
Recipe: Makes 8 servings
Place all the wet and dry ingredients in separate bowls. Stir. Pour the wet ingredients over the dry and stir with as few swoops of a spatula as possible. Grease a pan with 1 tsp butter. Bake at 360 for 60-70 minutes.
Wet ingredients:
1 cup shredded carrot
1 cup shredded zucchini
2/3 cup apple juice
1/2 cup vanilla almond milk
1 egg (or some mashed banana to veganize)
Dry ingredients:
1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup brown sugar (this is a MINIMUM, do not use any less! Use more if desired!)
1/2 cup toasted shredded coconut
1 tsp baking powder
dash of salt
few shakes pumpkin pie spice
Benefits:
1 slice of this bread has 5.5 grams of fiber and 6 grams of protein! It also has 40% of your daily needed vitamin A, 5% vitamin E, 5% copper, 4% folate, 28% manganese, 8% phosphorous, 7% thiamin, and more!
My mom is quite skeptical of these “weird” breads with veggies in them, but maybe I could make these. They look really good and sound awesome! 😀
Wei-Wei
Sometimes it looks as if those plates are floating above the street. Haha. Are they just that light?
That bread looks great and healthful.
Bahaha! Yes they are so heavenly they begin to levetate
DELICIOUS!
I LOOOOOOOVE zucchini bread! And lucky for me, I have a TON of them to use in this recipe! THANK you!
You are so welcome Loriiii!
Whoa. It looks like I’m going to have to try this recipe, because your zuke-carrot bread ACTUALLY looks like it has VEGETABLES IN IT! <333 Whenever I make zuke bread, it dissipates into ….non-existent green flecks. 😦 Chunks, people, I want chunks!!!
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If you do, please give me honest feedback! I fear that it wont be sweet enough for other peoples tastes!
That looks so healthy and delicious! I love how you give a *minimum* amount of sugar. 😀
Awesome.. I mean really, awesome… Shd try it out..
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Shredded coconut and oats and vegg!
…so textural and yummy sounding!
Sooo textural that I went to my workout class this morning with zucchini stuck in my teeth. Cool.
Ahahaha. Nice.
Love zucchini bread but I’ve never made it on ny own…looks fabulous!
i just favorited this recipe and plan on making this next time I have a day off!
freaking EH girlie! damn i need to make zuchinni muffins soon! im gonna add some chocolate chippies in too. i love zuchinni muffins (or loaf- i wont descriminate) hehe ❤
um. that’s across from wheatsville. which means you’re living a few blocks from me and didn’t tell me!?
Tried this today again and it came out sooo good! My kids loved it! Now I need to wait for the hubby to come home and see if he likes it! I added 2 ripe bananas so it taste more like banana bread.Next time I will add walnuts!THX