No kidding, today is National Banana Bread Day and it seems that everyone has their favorite recipe. Here’s ours courtesy of Banana.com.
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup toasted walnuts or pecans, chopped
3 ripe, soft, darkly speckled large bananas, mashed well (about 1 1/2 cups)
1/4 cup plain yogurt
2 large eggs, beaten lightly
6 tablespoons butter, melted then cooled
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preparation:
Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and heat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease bottom only of regular loaf pan, or grease and flour bottom and sides of nonstick 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan.
Combine dry ingredients together in large bowl and set aside.
Mix mashed bananas, yogurt, eggs, butter, and vanilla with wooden spoon in medium bowl.
Lightly fold banana mixture into dry ingredients with rubber spatula until just combined and batter looks thick and chunky.
Pour batter into prepared loaf pan; bake until loaf is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
Cool in pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack.
Wrap tightly with plastic wrap and store in refrigerator for 4 days, on the counter for 2 days.
March 25th, 2009 at 6:06 am
yay bananas
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:21 am
I note that it is recommended that bananas NOT be put in the refrigerator. I want to know why. Can you answer please.
Gloria Mudge
June 15th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Can you post about bananas whose skin is green but the flesh is ripe? They suffer from some postharvest physiological disorder, and can be seen in the supermarkets, so when I had to buy unripe bananas, I get confused in which is ripe/unripe, once I bought some green ripe banans and did a banana ripening experiment, and I thought it didn’t work. Thanks. Your blog is nice and useful!