
Go-To Banana Bread
Recipe from Hannah Medellin · original post
Simple, no add-ins: a soft crumb and deep banana flavour, with salted butter to balance the sweetness. Bakes in a multicooker or the oven.
Ingredients
- plain flour250 g
- baking soda — 1 tsp4.5 g
- ground cinnamon — ½ tsp1.3 g
- fine sea salt — ¼ tsp1.5 g
- salted butter — softened125 g
- brown sugar150 g
- large eggs — at room temperature2 ea
- Greek yoghurt80 g
- very ripe bananas — well mashed3 ea
- vanilla extract — 1 tsp5 ml
Method
- Mash the bananas well in a large bowl.
- Whisk in the softened butter and brown sugar until combined.
- Whisk in the eggs, Greek yoghurt and vanilla.
- Add the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and fold until just combined.
- Pour the batter into a lined tin (or the lined bowl of a multicooker on its bake setting).
- Bake at 180°C until golden and a skewer in the centre comes out clean. The air-fryer setting works too.
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- vanilla extract · 5 ml