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Showing posts with label banana. Show all posts

Jan 6, 2017

Best banana bread recipe (sugar free)


From all the banana bread recipes I've tried so far, this one was definitely the best (and the most appreciated). It needs just 5-10 minutes to prepare and about 1h to bake. 

Ingredients:
- 3 medium bananas, very ripe, mashed;
- 2 eggs;
- 1/2 cup milk;
- 7 Tbsp oil;
- 1 tsp baking soda;
- seeds of a vanilla bean or 1/2 tsp vanilla powder;
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon;
- 1 3/4 cups white flour;
- a handful of walnuts, ground, or chopped (minimum 50g).
* this recipe does not contain sugar, the bananas are usually tasty enough. If you like concentrated sweets and you have no restrictions, you can add 2-3 Tbsp of honey or another sweetener of your choice.

Method:
In a bowl (or in the blender), mix the mashed bananas, eggs, oil, milk, vanilla, cinnamon and (if using) sweetener. Separately, mix the flour, baking soda and ground walnuts. Add the dry ingredients over the liquid mix and stir until smooth. Pour in a loaf pan lined with baking paper and bake in the preheated oven (180 degrees Celsius), for about 50 minutes - one hour, until it passes the toothpic test. Let it cool in the tray for at least 15 minutes and cut only when completely cooled.
Enjoy!






Oct 8, 2016

Pancakes filled with whole bananas


On weekends, when we are all at home and we don't have to rush anywhere, I like to prepare something special for breakfast. A nice idea I saw on Pinterest (the original recipe is here) were these pancakes filled with whole bananas.

Ingredients:
For the pancakes
- one egg;
- 1 cup milk;
- 1 cup flour;
- a pinch of baking powder;
- a pinch of vanilla powder;
- 1 tsp carob powder.

For the filling:
- one very ripe banana and 1 tsp carob powder
or
- peanut butter

For the inner part:
- 2 whole bananas.

Place all the pancake ingredients in a blender, except for the carob powder and mix until smooth. Bake 3 white pancakes (make them the size of the pan, not small ones). Place them on a plate and set aside.
Add the carob powder to the remaining pancake mix and bake 3 more brown pancakes.

Separately, mix a pureed banana with 1 tsp carob powder and blend until smooth. (I intended to use peanut butter but I learned that it had already been eaten).

On a wide plate place a white pancake, add a teaspoon of filling, spread that on the whole pancake surface and top with a brown pancake. Add a new layer of filling and place a whole banana on top, in the middle. Roll the two pancakes around the banana. Slice the roll with a sharp knife.

Repeat until you finish the pancakes. You can add more layers to every roll.

Enjoy!