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Brown Butter Banana Bread

One bowl, one loaf tin, and the bananas have to be genuinely black — not speckled, black. If they aren't there yet, wait a day.

by kwaku kitchen

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Ingredients

  • 115g butter
  • 3 very ripe bananas
  • 150g soft brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 200g plain flour
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • Handful of walnuts (optional)

Method

  1. Melt the butter in a small pan and keep cooking until it smells nutty and the milk solids are brown. Cool slightly.
  2. Mash the bananas in a large bowl, then beat in the sugar, eggs and brown butter.
  3. Fold in flour, bicarb and salt until just combined. Lumps are fine.
  4. Bake at 175°C for 55–60 minutes. A skewer should come out with crumbs, not batter.

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