Jul 14, 2010

Berry-Banana bread

When I noticed the over ripen banana forgotten on the top of fridge,
I know it's time to bake a banana bread. :)


After practice with the recipe found online couple times, I was playing a little bit with the possible ingredients and found this one is great match of the flavours and textures.

As usual, good recipes should be written down in order to have a better chance to make it successfully again.

Ingredients you should have:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup butter or margarine (melted in room temperature in adavance)
1 cup white sugar (you can use 3/4 cup if you prefer less sweetness)
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs (medium size)
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 table spoons Yogurt (Berries flavour one is preferred)
3 small/medium size banana
1/4 Dried or Fresh berries (Blueberry & Raspberry are recommended)

Tools you should have:
Measuring cups/ spoons of course
Spoon or beater for mixing stuff up
A big size bowl
A medium size bowl to mash banana in
Baking container (23cm long rectangular shape)

Step:
-Add Butter/Sugar/Salt in the big size bowl and mix it well
-Add Eggs/Vanilla/Yogurt then beat more
-Add filtered Flour/Baking Soda/Baking Powder. Separate it to 3 times and once in a small amount and beat at the same time
-Mash Banana in another bowl then add it into the batter in the big size bowl
-Mix it well then add berries by hand to make sure it spreads average in the batter
-spray or wipe some oil or butter inside of the baking container
-Pour the batter into the baking container until the container is 80-85% full
-Place the container in the center of preheated 300F oven for 1 hour
-When the surface color reaches what you want, insert a toothpick or small wooden skewer to the center of bread and pull it out. If the toothpick stayed cleaned and dried then it's done!
-Let it cool down at least 45mins before cut

I like to check my bread every 30 mins just to make sure everything is ok. One time the banana I used was too big and the batter is way too much for my container. So the batter was like over-pured beer. It ended up cause a little bit fire frame in the bottom of the oven cuz of the burned batter....etc. Anyways, just be careful cuz shit happens...
Last time I actually baked it longer than 1 hour cuz I like the edge and surface to be a little more brown and it tasted delicious!!

Enjoy~

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