Nutty Banana Apple bread
What do you do with overripe banana?
Easy answer,you make a banana bread.That’s what I did.My husband loved it with coffee and our little boy was eating it all day.
I followed the recipe from Food Network Magazine(May 2011).Recipe was meant to be the common recipe which can be customized for different fruits and nuts.So i picked the ingredients which suited my needs.
- I added wheat germs for health kick.
- Recipe asked to use only one kind of fruit such as grated pear, apple, banana, carrot, zucchini.However,i couldn’t help but combine apple and banana together and it tasted just fine.
- I didn’t glaze the bread,i was lazy.Also i didn’t think my family needed another coating of sugar.Pretty sure they didn’t miss it.Yon can use brown butter,vanilla bean,cream cheese,chocolate based glazes.
- I preferred yogurt over sour cream and vegetable oil over butter.You can use either.
- I felt it was tad sweeter for my taste but noone complained(Yeah really,does that happen?).I may experiment with little less sugar next time.
Choices of mix ins:
- Walnuts, Pecans, Almonds, Hazelnuts, Pistachios, Dried (Cherries-Cranberries-currants-figs-apricots-pitted dates), rolled oats, chocolate chips, sweetened shredded coconut.
- Use the combination of the above, making sure not more then 3/4 cup of nuts.If mixing with fruits,chips,coconut,not more then 1-3/4 cups.Big pieces of fruits can be chopped.Nuts can be toasted.[I didn't]
Ingredients
- 2 ripe banana mashed
- 1 Apple grated
- 3/4 cup walnuts
- 1-1/4 cups flour
- 1/4 cup wheat germs
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1 Teaspoon baking powder
- 1 Teaspoon salt
- 1/2 Teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 Teaspoon each cinnamon,nutmeg.
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
Fruit mix
Dry mix
Whisk
Instructions
- Preheat oven 350F.
- Grease the 9 by 5 inch loaf pan or three 6 by 3 inch mini pans using butter.
- Whisk the ingredients listed in it.
- Add the fruit mix with whisk ingredients well.
- Stir the dry ingredients.
- Fold whisked ingredients gently in dry mix.
- Pour it in greased loaf pan.
- Bake it for 50-55 mins for standard loaf and 30 to 40 mins for mini loafs.
- Cool 30 mins in the pan on a rack.
- Then take it out and cool it completely.
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- mashed banana and grated apple
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- Fruits and walnuts
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- Whisked
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- Wheat germs
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- Dry mix
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- Fruit mix whisked
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- Ready to pour and bake
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- Banana bread
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- Banana bread
