An easy and nutritious Cantaloupe quick bread! This is delish and tastes a lot like Zucchini Bread BUT has a slight cantaloupe flavor.
Course
Bread
Keyword
Cantaloupe, quick bread, what recipes can I make with cantaloupe
Servings8
AuthorShari Lynne
Ingredients
3egg whites
1/8cupcoconut or olive oil
1/2cupsugar
1Tbsp.vanilla extract
2cupscantaloupe – peeledseeded and pureed
3cupsflourI used white..but you could use 1/2 wheat..will make a denser texture
1tsp.salt
1tsp.baking soda
3/4tsp.baking powder
2tsp.cinnamon
1/2tsp.ground ginger
Instructions
Preheat oven to 325 and lightly spray a 9×5 loaf pan or small baking dish…such as a 10×8 or a little larger. In a large bowl, beat together eggs, oil, sugar, vanilla and cantaloupe.
In a separate bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and ginger…I use a sifter…do you?
Then blend all together and pour into loaf pans or small baking dish
Bake in oven for 1 hour for loaf pans OR 30 minutes for small baking dish until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
YUM!! This is delish and tastes a lot like Zucchini Bread BUT has a slight cantaloupe flavor.
Recipe Notes
Just a little tip…did you know that when you puree these kinds of fruits that you need very little oils to cook with? As a matter of fact, oils can almost completely be eliminated by using pureed fruits such as applesauce, pureed pumpkin and the like.