Go-To Banana Bread
Recipe from Hannah Medellin · original post
Simple, no add-ins: a soft crumb and deep banana flavour, with salted butter to balance the sweetness. Bakes in a multicooker or the oven.
Ingredients
- plain flour250 g
- baking soda — 1 tsp4.5 g
- ground cinnamon — ½ tsp1.3 g
- fine sea salt — ¼ tsp1.5 g
- salted butter — softened125 g
- brown sugar150 g
- large eggs — at room temperature2 ea
- Greek yoghurt80 g
- very ripe bananas — well mashed3 ea
- vanilla extract — 1 tsp5 ml
Method
- Mash the bananas well in a large bowl.
- Whisk in the softened butter and brown sugar until combined.
- Whisk in the eggs, Greek yoghurt and vanilla.
- Add the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and fold until just combined.
- Pour the batter into a lined tin (or the lined bowl of a multicooker on its bake setting).
- Bake at 180°C until golden and a skewer in the centre comes out clean. The air-fryer setting works too.
Cooking for a different diet?
Swaps that keep this dish what it is. The prices on this page are for the recipe as written.
Vegan
- 125 g Dairy-free spread instead of salted butter
- 20 g Ground flaxseed instead of large eggs
- 80 g Coconut yoghurt instead of greek yoghurt
Mix the flaxseed with 75 ml water and leave it 5 minutes to thicken before whisking it in where the eggs went; the loaf may need 5 to 10 minutes longer, so check with a skewer.
Gluten-free
- 250 g Gluten-free plain flour instead of plain flour
Let the batter rest for 10 minutes before baking so the gluten-free flour hydrates; it may need a few extra minutes, so check with a skewer.
Dairy-free
- 125 g Dairy-free spread instead of salted butter
- 80 g Coconut yoghurt instead of greek yoghurt
Swaps are suggestions — check labels if you are cooking for an allergy.
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Woolworthsyou pay $44.75 · 82% spare
$8.05
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ColesBest choiceyou pay $39.78 · 82% spare
$7.14
missing 2 items
Aldiyou pay $23.73 · 85% spare
$3.63
missing 3 items
$0.81a serve
$0.81 a serve, cheapest at Woolworths
About $8.05 of ingredients used for 10 serves.
$47.81 across 3 shops · all 10 items priced · $7.75 more for bigger packs, 87% spare for later
Woolworths$8.05
no items missing
you'll pay $44.75 · 82% of it spare
ColesBest choice$7.14
missing 2 items
you'll pay $39.78 · 82% of it spare
Aldi$3.63
missing 3 items
you'll pay $23.73 · 85% of it spare
Buy at Aldi$12.66
plain flour
$1.20/1kg
need 250 gWhite Mill Plain Flour 2kg$2.39closest match
Aldi$1.20/1kg$2.39·Woolworths$1.30/1kg$1.30·Coles$1.30/1kg$1.30
ground cinnamon
$0.58/10g
need 1.3 gStonemill Cinnamon Ground 41g$2.39closest match
Aldi$0.58/10g$2.39·Woolworths$0.80/10g$2.00·Coles$0.80/10g$2.00
vanilla extract
$0.50/10ml
need 5 mlWhite Mill Vanilla Extract 100ml$4.99closest match
Aldi$0.50/10ml$4.99·Woolworths$0.80/10ml$4.00·Coles$0.80/10ml$4.00
Buy at Woolworths$22.25
Buy at Coles$12.90
salted butter
$1.40/100g
need 125 gColes Simply Salted Butter 500g$7.00closest match
Coles$1.40/100g$7.00·Woolworths$2.08/100g$5.20·Aldi$1.40/100g$6.99
