We had a bunch of bananas turning very, very brown on the counter this week, but we weren't in a baking mood. We didn't want to haul out the mixer and soften the butter and dirty two bowls...you get the idea. Then we discovered a new banana bread recipe that pretty much made our day.
How To Make Banana Bread In Under Ten Minutes
It's a recipe from Elise at Simply Recipes, and it literally took us eight minutes to mix up.
You don't need a mixer at all; you just mash the bananas, add some sugar and an egg, stir in the flour and other dry ingredients, pour it in a pan and bake for an hour and you're done!
Elise calls for 1/3 cup melted butter to go in this bread, but we substituted oil, cutting out even that step. This turned out perfect, with a tender, moist crumb. In fact, it was rather more perfect than the much more complicated banana bread we usually make. We also added a handful of chocolate chips for a special treat.
Highly recommended recipe - we enjoyed the bread all week; it stayed moist and tender for five days!
• Get the recipe! Banana Bread at Simply Recipes
Related: Recipe: Mini Blueberry Lemon Muffins
(Images: Brown bananas by Flickr member Jen Waller, licensed for use under Creative Commons; banana bread by Faith Hopler)
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Any favorite banana bread recipe can be made super fast by using a food processor for all the liquid components and substituting Canola oil for butter. Mix all of the dry stuff in a bowl. Put the bananas in the processor and blitz them. Add the eggs, oil and any other liquids and blitz again. Mix the wet and dry. Mashing the bananas by hand doesn't really seem to have much of an effect on the outcome in my experience.
If you like chunks of banana, you can just add the bananas last to the eggs, oil, etc. instead of first and pulse them into the wet ingredients until they reach the desired chunkiness level.
view Orchid64's profile
I love Simply Recipes! Elise is terrific and every single one of her recipes I've tried has been fantastic. Kudos to her!
view Sisero's profile
I had high hopes for this recipe and it will do in a pinch but as far as texture, I definitely prefer my tried and true recipe which comes from The New Joy of Cooking Books (the next to last one). Will post next week.
view izzy's mama's profile
I made this banana bread this weekend and it was great! So easy to just throw together.
I'm not sure it was the best i've ever tasted, but great banana bread is way better than no banana bread and this was so easy I could have banana bread anytime!
view Carrie too's profile
So glad you liked the banana bread recipe! It's one of my favorites.
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