01300 g mashed, lumpy is fine
Peel, mash with a fork. A few lumps beat a puree. Weigh if you can — '3 bananas' is a lie when they range from 80 g to 200 g.
Frozen-thawed black bananas weep liquid. Mash it all in. That's flavor, not a problem.
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Banana Bread That Tastes Like Banana
Black bananas, 300 g mash, one loaf, no 'healthy' cardboard
1h 20m5 photographed stepsBeginner
You will mash very ripe bananas, mix a one-bowl batter, and bake a loaf that is banana first, cake second. Black-speckled fruit is the ingredient. Yellow bananas are a different, worse bread.
What you'll learn
- Black bananas mash sweet; yellow ones taste like flour
- Don't beat the flour into glue
- 175°C / 350°F until a toothpick is almost clean, 50–65 min
- Cool 15 minutes in the pan or it welds to the tin
Inside this course
- The bananas are the recipeIf they look like you should throw them away, they are ready.
- One bowlWet, then dry, fold. No mixer ego.
- BakeMiddle rack. Don't open the door for 45 minutes.
- EatButter is allowed. It's a loaf, not a personality.
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