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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Other Recipes / DIY / Homemade Banana Flour Recipe

Homemade Banana Flour Recipe

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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  • Making Organic Green Banana Flour is Thrifty
  • Homemade Banana Flour
  • Homemade Raw Green Banana Flour
  • Recipes Using Banana Flour

homemade raw green banana flour

As more people become aware of the science-backed belly reducing benefits of resistant starch, quality sources such as raw banana flour are flying off the shelves.

With GMO bananas on the horizon and conventional crops highly sprayed, using organic green banana flour is the safest way to go. If you’ve checked the prices on organic banana flour lately, though, you’ve probably been shocked at the cost!

Making Organic Green Banana Flour is Thrifty

A small one-pound bag of organic green banana flour runs about $10-15. Buy it in bulk and you might get it for around $7/pound.

If you add 2-3 tablespoons to your morning smoothie to get the therapeutic dose of 15-30 grams of resistant starch each day, you’ll use up a whole bag in one week!

If spending upwards of $30+ per month solely on banana flour (for one person!) seems expensive, consider making your own.

I am fortunate to have nearly a dozen banana trees in my backyard, so picking a bunch to make homemade green banana flour is convenient and free.

If you buy a bunch at the health food store, it won’t be free but it will still cost less than buying pre-made.

Homemade Banana Flour

If you have a food dehydrator, making homemade banana flour is not only thrifty, it is quite easy too.

bunch of green bananas to make flour

The bunch of green bananas in the picture above makes about 1 pound of organic flour with very little effort!

If you don’t have a stainless steel dehydrator, then you can use a warm oven with the pilot light on. Another option is to use a convection oven.

My convection oven above the range has a dehydrator option. I am able to set the temperature as low as necessary to keep the banana flour raw during the drying process to preserve all the health benefits.

Homemade Banana Flour Recipe 1
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Homemade Raw Green Banana Flour

Fast, easy and thrifty recipe for making homemade banana flour that is raw and high in health-boosting resistant starch necessary for optimum gut health.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 6 hours
Total Time 6 hours 5 minutes
Servings 48 Tablespoons
Calories 40 kcal
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 1 large bunch green bananas preferably organic

Instructions

  1. Peel and slice bananas into circles about 1/4 inch thick.

  2. Arrange the pieces side by side (do not stack or make a pile) on dehydrator sheets or cookie sheets (if using a warm oven or convection oven).

  3. Set the dehydrator or oven to 115 F/ 45 C and dry out the banana slices for about 6 hours. If your oven won't go that low, consult the user manual as most ovens can be adjusted lower if necessary. Alternatively, use only the pilot light for a gas range.

  4. When fully dry, remove the banana chips and cool.

  5. Place the chips in a food processor and pulse until a smooth flour.

  6. Store banana flour in airtight containers in the pantry or the refrigerator. It will remain fresh for several months in the refrigerator.

Recipe Notes

In addition to flour, you can use the dehydrated banana chips to make a great snack by lightly toasting in unrefined avocado oil.

Nutrition Facts
Homemade Raw Green Banana Flour
Amount Per Serving (1 tablespoon)
Calories 40
% Daily Value*
Sodium 5mg0%
Potassium 65mg2%
Carbohydrates 10g3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Recipes Using Banana Flour

Need to know what to do with your homemade green banana flour besides adding it to smoothie recipes? Try this blueberry banana grain-free muffins recipe.

This Paleo biscuits recipe and this grain-free waffles recipe are delicious using banana flour.

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Category: DIY, Gluten Free Recipes, Paleo Recipes
Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (25)

  1. Ashutosh Mahajan

    Nov 27, 2018 at 4:20 pm

    5 stars
    Banana Flour is very beneficial in reducing ‘Ascites’ i.e. Extracellular Fluid Accumulated in Pleura, Peritoneum and Pelvis due to its high content of Potassium. It tastes also very good in the form of Parathas and Chapatis.

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  2. Cindi

    Nov 24, 2018 at 8:56 pm

    Thank you! I found a spot in my refrigerator. I used this flour in some pumpkin chocolate chip bars to replace all purpose flour and they turned out wonderfully.

    Reply
  3. Cindi

    Nov 16, 2018 at 10:50 am

    5 stars
    Can this flour be frozen or only refrigerated? How long is the shelf life if kept in a cool, dark place? Thank you. I dehydrated the green bananas overnight and I’m about to put them in the food processor!

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Nov 17, 2018 at 12:41 pm

      I have not frozen it myself, but I suspect it is like other flours and freezes well without any clumping. If you keep in a cool, dark pantry, the flour should be good for at least a few weeks. I refrigerate mine just to be safe since I live in FL.

  4. Holly J

    Nov 15, 2018 at 3:59 pm

    How young do they need to be? I can buy a bunch of bananas at the store which are green and will quickly turn yellow, but when you say green do you mean younger than the green ones you typically find in the stores?

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Nov 15, 2018 at 10:05 pm

      They should be completely green like the bunch of finger bananas in the picture.

  5. Amy Hartig

    Nov 15, 2018 at 2:45 pm

    Can you just replace banana flour with the other types of flours in baking?

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Nov 15, 2018 at 10:17 pm

      Not really. Banana flour is a very thirsty flour and using it 1:1 for another flour alters the consistency of the batter quite a bit. You will have to experiment and be prepared for some trial and error if you wish to use it in some of your favorite baking recipes.

  6. lesleyfromkent

    Nov 15, 2018 at 11:53 am

    5 stars
    This is a brilliant idea. I shall be doing this. Presumably you can use the banana flour just like, say, coconut flour? That’s how I shall be proceeding.
    Thanks.
    [I bought an excalibur ages ago, expensive (in the UK) but so worthwhile …]

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Nov 15, 2018 at 10:08 pm

      Coconut flour is quite a bit different in baking from banana flour. They are not interchangeable in recipes and baking in general. Coconut flour, for example, is very low in resistant starch while banana flour is very high in it.

  7. Rose Lunsford

    Nov 15, 2018 at 9:17 am

    Why green ?

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Nov 15, 2018 at 10:19 pm

      Green bananas are high in resistant starch but riper bananas are not. Also ripe bananas cannot be easily made into flour like a firm, unripe banana can.

  8. Lynda

    Nov 14, 2018 at 11:46 am

    We need to replace our over the stove model and when you mentioned that your convection oven has a dehydrator setting, that’s the one I want! Can you please tell me the make and model of yours?

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Nov 14, 2018 at 12:31 pm

      It’s the LG convection/microwave. We never use the microwave feature, only the convection oven. It sits above our LG stove in the same place a regular microwave would go.

  9. Amy

    Nov 13, 2018 at 9:42 pm

    Hi. The recipe says to peel the bananas but the picture shows unpeeled slices. Could you clarify, please. Thank you

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Nov 14, 2018 at 8:36 am

      You can peel the banana before or after you slice them. Your choice 🙂

  10. Bobbi

    Nov 13, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    Why wouldn’t you just add the green bananas (rather than the flour) to your smoothie?

    Reply
    • Sarah Pope MGA

      Nov 14, 2018 at 8:38 am

      Green bananas don’t blend very well in my experience.

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