Banana Bread

Ingredients: 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 2 tbsp milk 3 mashed bananas – well ripe 1 tsp baking powder 225g flour (gluten free mix) – you can mix plantain flour in but not more than half 125g unsalted butter – melted 150 g brown sugar (can be replaced with any other type – for white sugar reduce to 130g 2 eggs, beaten

Quick Guide: Mash bananas in a larger measuring cup. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in milk and add to bananas In a large bowl shift in the flour with the baking powder. Fold in the banana mixture Add in butter, sugar and eggs and mix to combine Pour in a baking loaf tin and bake at 180°C(350°F) for 1 hour. Let it rest and cool to room temperature before serving.

Detailed Guide
1.  Prepare the oven and tin
Start heating the oven to 180° C (350° F). Prepare a baking loaf tin by greasing it with butter. Since I’m using my silicon mold, I will be skipping this step as this does not stick .

2.  Prepare the ingredients
In a large bowl prepare your flour and mix in your baking powder. In the example bellow i mixed my bread-flour with plantain flour half-and-half.

Melt in the butter and let it cool a bit to room temperature. I use the microwave for this.

Mash bananas in a larger measuring cup. In a small cup dissolve the baking powder into the milk then pour over the bananas.

Fold the banana mixture into the flour. After incorporated , add in the butter, sugar and beaten eggs and mix to combine. This should form a light batter.

3. Bake and Serve
Pour in the batter into the prepared baking loaf or ramekin and put in the heated oven where it will stay for about 1 hour or until it passes the toothpick test. Let it rest and cool to room temperature before cutting to serve.