Recipe: Appetizing Banana bread

Banana bread. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended.

Add the banana mixture to the creamed mixture and stir until combined. Add dry ingredients, mixing just until flour. When life gives you bananas, it's time to make banana bread. You can cook Banana bread using 11 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Banana bread

1. It's Half of cup or 70 grams of walnuts or almonds;chopped and roasted.
2. It's 1 3/4 cup of or 230 grams of white flour.
3. Prepare 150 g of or 3/4 cup white sugar or (100g white and 50g brown sugar).
4. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
7. Prepare 2 of large eggs.
8. It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
9. You need 1/2 cup of or 113g melted cooled butter.
10. Prepare 300-454 g of ripe banana (7 to 8 bananas).
11. It's 1 tsp of lemon (about a medium sized lemon).

Bake bananas into sweet loaves of goodness, with nuts, chocolate, or plain and delicious. Store overly-ripe bananas in the freezer until you have enough to make bread. Cut up thick slices of the bread and freeze them for a lunch box treat or for an on-the-go breakfast, toasted and spread with peanut or almond butter. Banana Bread Tips How do I quickly ripen bananas?

Banana bread instructions

1. Preheat the oven @ 180 degrees Celsius. (15 mins before you intend to put the bread in the oven)..
2. Line the loaf tins ahead of time too with some butter paper after putting oil on them. This recipe fills about two medium loaf tins..
3. Roast the nuts. You can put them on a baking sheet and roast them for 8 to 10 minutes or you could do the same in a non stick pan without any oil. Then chop them with a knife or put them in the blender and grind untill they turn into flakes..
4. Take the bananas and mash them with a fork. Add the lemon..
5. In a bowl combine the dry ingredients; flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon..
6. Sift these. Then add the nuts. (be sure to add the nuts in the dry ingredients).
7. Beat the melted butter and sugar well. (You can melt the butter in a double boiler). The sugar used is the normal sugar, not the powdered one..
8. Beat the eggs and salt in a separate bowl untill fluffy. ((If you dont wanna include the cinnamon in the recipe, add a dash of vanilla essence but cinnamon is MUCH preferred)).
9. Add the butter sugar mixture to the eggs in a big bowl. Add the bananas and lemon and beat very lightly..
10. Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and fold with a spatula. (Dont over mix and dont keep the mixture for too long either as you've added the baking soda)..
11. Scoop the mixture about halfway in the loaf tins. You can add some banana slices or nuts on the top for decoration..
12. Bake @ 180 degrees Celsius or 350 F for about 30 minutes in the second rack of the oven and then check with a toothpick. For the bread to be completely done, the toothpick should come out clean..
13. In the end, once it's almost baked, after sort of about 30 mins, shift it to the middle or the fourth rack and turn on the upper grill and give it like 5 mins for some colour to appear on it. When the toothpick comes out clean, the bread is done.
14. (This recipe could potentially take you longer than 30 minutes depending on the size of the loaf so checking with a toothpick is crucial)..
15. Glaze the top of the bread with butter or butter plus jam as soon as it's done for added softness..

When baking with bananas, use ones that are ripe (or even overripe) to yield the best flavor. If you have a day or two to spare, place bananas and an apple, avocado, peach or tomato in a brown paper bag and keep on your counter. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. In a medium bowl, whisk together banana, melted butter, eggs, and vanilla. The best bananas to use for banana bread are those that are over-ripe.