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Banana bread was the first dish I baked. My hubby loves Banana bread, especially one of his friend’s recipes. He always would tell me to learn how to make banana bread from Damika, she makes wonderful bread. Yes it is wonderful tasty bread, I too agree with his verdict. She was so nice to show me how bake from the scratch, and second time I made under her supervision. I love that bread. I have constant problem in my house, nobody likes to eat the bananas when they are on the riper side (yellow with lots of spots), but these are perfect to be used to make either pancakes or banana bread.
I also have an inborn weakness to coconut; I love them in any form solid, liquid, cooked, uncooked, shredded, cubed etc. So I am happy to add them to most of my dishes.
So this time while saving banana, I decided to make banana bread and to spice up I added shredded coconut and coconut chips. They are absolute moist and tasty with mild sweetness. If you are lover of coconut and banana you need to try this recipe at least once. Here is the recipe.
What you need
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All purpose flour: 1 ½ cup
Sugar: ½ + ⅕ cup
Banana: 2 medium
Large Egg: 1no
Canola oil: ¼ cup
Milk: ⅕ cup (I used 1% milk)
Salt: ¼ teaspoon
Vanilla extract: ½ teaspoon
Baking soda: ½ teaspoon
Baking powder: ¼ teaspoon
Desiccated coconut: ¼ cup
Walnut: ⅓ cup (Toasted lightly and crushed)
Coconut chips: ⅓ cup
How I made
Preheat oven 350 degree Fahrenheit. Butter the bottom of an 8 ½ by 4 ½ by 2 ½-inch loaf pan. Line the bottom with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pan.
In a large bowl sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. And add desiccated coconut and mix until everything and keep aside.
Mash two bananas with a fork and keep aside.
In a medium bowl beat egg with sugar and milk and add oil and vanilla extract and mix everything incorporated well.
Gradually add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix everything well.
Finally fold in mashed gently and add toasted and crushed walnut and fold once again gently.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smoothen the tops with a spatula. Garnish with coconut chips.
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Bake for 45 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
Cool the bread in the pan for 5 minutes and remove it and cool in the wire rack for another 1 hour.
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Cut into slices and enjoy.
Preparation time: 50 minutes
Serving: 4 serving
Verdict: Yummy. Keeper recipe
Will you make it again: I will
Swathi
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
kanthi says
Looks delicious,a new recipe for me..
Usha says
I make banana bread often, but have never tried it in combination with coconut, looks fantastic!
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Jagruti says
Bread
Jagruti says
Banana bred looks sooooooooo yummy and mouthwatering!!
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Malar Gandhi says
Looks awesome, wonderful choice of ingredients, sunds healthy plus tastee:)
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Jessica {The Novice Chef} says
This looks absolutely delicious!
SpicyTasty says
My fav cake. I used to make it with chocolate chip But walnut is a grt addition Next time i'll try it with walnut.
Rachana Kothari says
A lovely combination and the bread looks so tempting...
Siddhi S says
wow lovely bread swati...tempting one...nice combo
simply.food says
Banana bread looks so very tasty and the click is wonderful I can almost smell the cake cooking in the oven.I like the combo coconut and bananas.
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Preety says
love homemade breads..looks perfect and delicious..great click too
Panchpakwan says
Looks so mosit..lvoed the coconut in it...
Padhu says
Wow! I love it very much.Nice combo
Gulmohar says
I love banana-walnut combo..adding coconut is interesting..got to try this next time
Hamaree Rasoi says
Wow !! your bread looks fantastic dear!! SO soft, moist and fluffy...Just superb
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Sarah Naveen says
Awesome...so soft and spongy
Vrinda says
Bread came out perfect Swathi..lov this kind of quick breads
Deepa G Joshi says
wohoo..coconut added in a walnut banana bread will definitely add a great taste to it..this one looks so prefect..
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Akal's Saappadu says
Swathi,
what do you want me to say??? your bread looks fantastic, just perfect!! that's sure a keeper recipe!!! I love it!!!
Aparna S Mallya says
i love coconut, i love banana, i love walnut. never had them together though. worth a shot!
SathyaSridhar says
Woooow,,, bread looks lovely n perfect makes me craving for bake it now,,, i like this mixed bread all time with carrot n banana..
Tina says
Sooooo soft and delicious...
Aruna Manikandan says
Cake looks lovely!!!!
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Ms.Chitchat says
Lovely looking bread. Thanks for sharing a wonderful recipe. Never baked bread at home. Thinking to give this a try :):)
N S says
New combination to me. Looks perfect.
Sushma Mallya says
Really beautiful & well baked bread...its high time even i start trying such wonderful bread at home itself...thanks for sharing swathi
Hari Chandana says
Wow... lovely combination.. Awesome recipe.. new to me. 🙂
Sook says
Mmmm coconut and bananas... that's gotta be yummy!
Latha says
Bread looks moist and delicious. I love anything with coconut.
PriyaRaj says
Wow healthy bread ...looks perfect ..