Homemade Banana Bread Recipes
Who doesn’t love a nice slice of banana bread with a cuppa? This banana cake recipe (The Veg Space) is really easy to make. A great way to use up over-ripe black spotted bananas.
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Banana bread is actually a quick bread (meaning it’s bread but needs no yeast). But as bananas are naturally sweet, it makes a lovely snack or dessert. Other quick breads you’ll know are carrot cake and gingerbread.
Healthy Banana Bread (Ela Vegan) is a great way to use up leftover bananas, as ones that are dark with spots are super-sweet due to starch.
Banana bread is also forgiving. It can be plain and straightforward, or dressed up with tahini, pecans, or a sugar crust. Once baked, it’s good warm, good cold, and often better the next day.
This banana bread (The Simple Veganista) is super-duper easy to make.
As as this banana bread from Rainbow Nourishments (just 7 ingredients and one bowl)..
How to buy, store and freeze bananas
Bananas are obviously not local, so buy Fair Trade and organic (farm shops are better, as supermarkets have to wrap organic bananas in plastic, to stop contamination from non-organic produce).
To avoid food waste, choose green bananas if not planning to use immediately, and use ripe sweet bananas for puddings and cakes. Store at room temperature away from other fruits that give off ethylene gas.
To freeze bananas for smoothies and ‘nice cream’, slice first then freeze on a tray, then transfer to a silicone freezer bag. Use within three months.
Use banana peel as homemade shoe polish!
The inside of a banana peel makes great shoe polish, just buff with a clean cloth to lift dust and give a mild shine. You can also use it over dry elbows and hands (or use a mashed banana as a face mask, due to potassium). If composting banana peel, remember to remove any plastic stickers.
