banana glut

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Hi mrs.butler,

These threads have lots of recipes and ideas that should help:

Bananas going a bit black?

banana glut

I'll add your thread to one of those later to keep the suggestions together.

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mrs.butler

Thanks guys thats great. x

Nimeth

I had loads of bananas to use up at the weekend and found a fabulous recipe that I just have to share here!

I made two loaves, one Strawberries & Cream Banana Bread (perfect as English strawberries will be in season soon) and one Kiwis & Cream Banana Bread.

INGREDIENTS
* 2 cups plain flour
* 1 teaspoon bicarb of soda
* 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/2 cup light brown sugar
* 1/2 cup caster sugar
* 1/2 cup butter or margarine
* 2 eggs
* 1/2 cup sour cream
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
* 3 mashed bananas
* 1 cup chopped strawberries


DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat the oven to 350F/180C/Gas Mark 4. Lightly grease a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
2. In a mixing bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and baking powder together.
3. In another bowl, cream together the butter or margarine and sugars. Then add in the eggs, vanilla, sour cream and mashed bananas and mix thoroughly. Stir in the chopped strawberries.
4. Slowly add the flour mixture into the wet ingredients, stirring well as you go.
5. Pour the mixture into your prepared loaf pan and bake for around 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
6. Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the loaf pan before removing and placing on a wire cooling rack to cool fully.


I bought a set of basic measuring cups from Morrison's which did the trick for measuring out in cups and both loaves turned out fantastic. I took them into OH's work yesterday and they were both eaten by lunchtime!:rotfl:

FrugalWorker

If they're not all used up, a more unusual option is to make curried banana soup

Fry off an onion/garlic/1ds of curry powder, add say 4 bananas + stock + cook for 15 min and blend. This is approx - I make my soups from memory with a bit of inspiration from the internet.

vikki_louise

Hi, someone came to stay and asked for bananas, we got a load and they weren't eaten! I like the very occasional under ripe one and my dad occasionally has bananas and custard. As they were starting to turn I froze them and refuse to throw good bananas away. I tried 1 ingredient icecream, i found it impressive but wouldn't do it again. I wondered if anyone had any suggestions on what I could make. I was thinking some kind of cake with another flavour in or something. What's everyones favourite banana uses?

ubamother

my son is not a banana fan, but banana and raspberry oat muffins go down pretty well. The sharpness of the raspberries hides the cloying taste of bananas that some don't like. I always use the raspberries still frozen - I find with the fresh ones the juice seeps into the muffins as they cook and they take on a rather strange unappetising colour!

Softstuff

Hummingbird cake!

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/6470/hummingbird+cake

You really wouldn't know there were bananas in it, they just make it nice and moist and quite dense.

ab7167

I've just taken a banana and chocolate loaf out of the oven, I can smell it cooling downstairs! 2 overripe bananas, 170g butter, 170g self raising flour (I always chuck a tsp of baking powder in as well!), 170g sugar, 3 eggs and 100g chopped chocolate. Easiest cake in the world, just chuck all of the above into a bowl and beat with whisk until creamy. Into a greased (v important, that bit...) loaf tin, about 55min at 160C (mine is not a fan oven, so reduce temp a bit if yours is). Very nice and keeps for about a week (ha ha ha - as if!)

zippychick

Hummingbird cake seconded

YOu may find some useful ideas in these threads

Freezing bananas

Bananas going a bit black

banana glut

Hope these help and we will merge this later

Zip

mumsy1

bought a load of cheepie bananas from tesco only 10p

was wondering how to make em all into cakes and find space in the freezer right away but the lolly plan sounds great and much more healthy
so thanks for that