Vegan Banana Bread | How to bake a banana bread
Vegan banana bread, a simple and easy bake with ripened bananas and whole wheat flour. The delicious banana bread is made more gorgeous with dark chocolate chunks and crunchy walnuts
Servings 8
Calories
Equipment
- Convection oven
- Bowls
- Spatula
- Balloon whisk
- Loaf tin
- Measuring cups and spoons
Ingredients
- 1&½ cups whole wheat flour All purpose flour can be used
- 2 nos ripened bananas i used philiphines variety
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- ½ cup dark brown sugar + 2 tbsp
- ⅓ cup oil i used sunflower oil
- ⅓ cup water + 1 tbsp
- ½ cup dark chocolate chunks i used amul 55%
- ⅓ cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 160C. Grease a loaf pan with oil and line it with parchment. My loaf pan measures 7.5 x 3 x 3 inches.
- In a wide bowl, take the peeled bananas, mash it well with a fork. To this add brown sugar and oil and mix it well. Keep aside
- In another bowl, take flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon powder. Whsik the ingredients well together. Alternatively you can sift the dry ingredients to get a homogeneous flour mix.
- Add the flour mix to the banana mix in batches. add water and using a spatula combine it to a batter. Take care while mixing, do not mix vigourously. Use gentle folding.
- Add dark chocolate chunks and walnuts to the batter and mix it into the batter. Again use gentle cut and fold method to incorporate it into the batter.
- Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan, bake for 45-50 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean (check notes)
- Once baked, remove the loaf from the oven, let it sit for 10 minutes on the counter. Then using a blunt knife loosen the sides of the loaf from the pan, and slowly unmould it onto a wire rack. Let it cool completely.
- Once cool, slice the loaf with a serrated knife and enjoy it warm. Cling wrap the rest of the loaf and it will stay good on the counter for a day.
- if storing for more then i would recommend refrigerating it in an air-tight box. While serving from the fridge, microwave the slice for 10-20 seconds and enjoy it warm.
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Notes
- Sifting/whsiking the dry ingredients together helps to get a homogenous flour mix and creates a lightness in the dense flour mix. If you are a beginner to baking, i recommed using a flour sifter to do this. A whisk also works well
- Do not beat the batter vigorously. Use gentle cut and fold method to incorporate the nuts and chocoaltes.
- If you are beginner to baking , i recommend lining your pan with parchment paper after greasing it. This helps to keep the loaf intact without sticking to the pan.
- Baking time varies from oven to oven. I baked this loaf in my microwave convection oven, if I bake the same loaf in my gas oven it will take only 30 minutes. So baking according to your oven.
- Resting time is very important to remove the loaf intact from the pan. So have patience.
- Allow the loaf to cool well before slicing it, to get a proper slice.