March 31, 2009

Banana-Walnut Bread

All the ingredients for this recipe can be combined in a food processor which makes it a perfect entry to Mansi’s BBD# 18: Quick Bread event. Bread Baking Day (BBD) is the brainchild of Zorra @ Kochtopf.
This recipe is from Vegetarian Bible by Sarah Brown. The recipe used pecans and dried apricots, I subbed them with walnuts & raisins resp.

Recipe adapted from Vegetarian Bible
Ingredients:
Self Rising Flour – 2 cups (I used 2 cups AP flour + 3 tsp Baking powder + 1 tsp salt)
Butter – ½cup, melted
Eggs – 3
Light brown sugar – ½ cup
Bananas – 3 ripe, chopped
Walnuts – 1 cup
Raisins – ½ cup

Method:
  • Reserve ½ cup walnuts for garnish.
  • Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease an 8” circular baking pan or 9”x 5” loaf pan.
  • Add bananas, flour, eggs, butter, sugar, nuts & raisins to the food processor; pulse till well combined. (I had some technical problems with my processor when I tried to turn it on after dumping all the ingredients in it; so I had to dump everything back into a bowl and use a hand mixer to mix. It was a little annoying cleaning up the mess, but the bread turned out just fine).
  • Pour into the prepared pan; arrange the reserved walnuts on the top. Bake for 45-50 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  • Cool in pan.

This bread tastes great toasted with some butter. I brought it to my colleague’s birthday breakfast and everybody loved it.
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16 comments:

Cham said...

Walnut and raisins in bread sounds fruity and delicous!

Pooja said...

Bread looks perfect pavani...Usually i do cake with banana...Should try this one...

Miri said...

That looks like one delicious bread!

KALVA said...

lovely bread

Shree said...

Bread looks great Pavani. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

Happy cook said...

Beautiful and delicious bread.

Chitra said...

looks yum pavani,want to taste it now:)

Asha said...

YUM! I posted a Banana Chocolate muffin today. Love Banana and Walnut combo, wonderful! :)

Alka said...

Sounds super easy and looks delicious...lovely entry for the event

Suparna said...

Hi Pavani,
I am big banana bread fan :) Love the way the basic recipe can be played around to get different varieties. Loved ur version with nuts...it looks perfect n yumm.Enjoy
TC

Madhumathi said...

The bread looks scrummy! I love banana breads..Your recipe has simple ingredients.

Varsha Vipins said...

wow..Great looking bread Pavani...I always bake my bread with walnuts in it..love the crunch..:)
First time here..great space u have..:)

Namratha said...

Bananas and Walnuts are a match made in food heaven aren't they :) Your loaf is perfect!

Vaishali said...

Banana bread, one of my favorite go-to recipes. Your version looks delicious, Pavani.

Varunavi said...

Never did this bread.urs looks yummy

Katie said...

Just baked this bread...added dried cranberries instead of raisins. Going to deliver the goodies to some friends. Thanks for the recipe. SO EASY!!!

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