Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Recipe 13 - Banana Bread

Thanks to Mohana for the idea (well, the idea was seeded way back in 2007) & the recipe. I finally got around to making it, thanks to my collar bone fracture! :)

Ingredients (serves about 4 people):
4 very ripe bananas mashed
1 egg - beaten
1/3 cup ghee (or oil/butter/buttermilk)
1.5 cups flour
0.5 c sugar or 0.25 c honey
0.5 cup walnuts

1. Beat one whole egg
2. Chop 1/2 cup of walnuts (you can do it with the hands) and add it to the beaten egg
3. Add 1/3 cup honey & 1/4 cup honey (a little more if you like it really sweet) to the above mix
4. Pre-heat oven to 350F
5. Add 4 ripe bananas mashed (the ghee will aid the mixing)
6. Add 1.5 cup slowly in parts while mixing it at the same time to ensure all the flour gets mixed thoroughly
7. Grease a pan with oil (the batter/dough will not rise, so you can estimate the pan size depending on the amount of batter)
8. Pour batter in the pan and bake it for 1hr

Preparation time - 1hr, Baking time - 1hr

The suspense and the smell while the bread was baking was exciting. Good experience!!





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3 Comments:

At 11:07 PM, Blogger raghu said...

After seeing Shilpa's version of banana bread, I
1) am impressed!
2) have a few things to improve on (baking container is important for the shape and also how much surface is exposed to air, there are special ones for baking bread)
3) have a new interest in the technicalities of baking

Thanks Shilpa/Vishnu!

 
At 10:00 AM, Blogger Silpa said...

Thanks Laddu..my first real baking experience. I tried to make a cake once in Austin and it was so awful that we threw the whole thing out. Your sis was also there. We all had to spit it out after one bite.

 
At 10:02 AM, Blogger Silpa said...

Thanks Laddu. My first real baking experience. I tried to make a cake once in Austin and was so bad that we spit out after one bite and threw the whole thing out. You sis was also there. Vishnu used to bake some really good whole grain bread.

 

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