“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman.
I know of people who wait for their bananas to over ripen so that they can bake with them. Some even store some away from family members so they don’t get eaten accidentally! I have the opposite problem. Every time we get home bananas , they are completely forgotten until , they are riddled with black spots and they are far too ripe to eat on their own .
So that’s the reason banana keeps visiting the blog on a semi regular basis. Banana bread is of course a winner always. If you are thinking of cake , you can choose between the fabulous brown butter banana chocolate chip cake or the flavourful caramelised banana coconut cake. Then there are the muffins -wholewheat chocolate banana or just banana. And oh. Banana and walnut biscotti .
When blackening bananas beckoned me from my fruit bowl last week , I was looking for new recipes to put them to good use yet again. But then I thought why not try an egg free version of the all time favourite banana bread.
It was an experiment that yielded delicious results. It’s dense and moist as any good banana bread should be. The banana flavour is strong and hearty. I added some Nutella swirl because I do like a little something extra in my banana bread. You can skip the Nutella or use the cinnamon raisin swirl like i did here . Or throw in a handful of chocolate chips or chopped nuts . Anything you want really !
Eggless banana bread ( with Nutella swirl)
Ingredients
- 125 grams or 1 cup all purpose flour maida
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup mashed bananas 3 medium bananas
- 1/4 cup yoghurt at room temperature
- 60 ml or 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 100 grams or 1/2 cup granulated or castor sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 to 5 tablespoons Nutella optional
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180 C or 350 F. Grease a 7 x 3 inch loaf pan well. Dust with flour.
- In a bowl , whisk together all the dry ingredients - flour , salt , baking powder and soda.
- In another bowl, whisk together the sugar , oil , mashed banana , yoghurt and vanilla.
- Add the liquid mixture to the dry ingredients and mix until smooth.
- Pour about 1/3rd of the batter into the prepared pan.
- Add two tablespoon of Nutella and swirl it in lightly with a skewer or knife.
- Add more batter and swirl in another two tablespoons of Nutella.
- Pour in the remaining batter , smooth the top , add one tablespoon of Nutella and swirl it in.
- Bake for 40- 45 minutes at 180 C / 350 F until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out dry.
- Cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
- Unmould gently and cool completely on a wire rack.
Notes
The bread stays good wrapped well for 4 to 5 days.
The sweetness of the bread depends on the ripeness of the bananas. Use the ripest banana for best result.
If Nutella is difficult to spread, microwave or heat for few seconds .
If you 'd rather not use Nutella, consider adding 3/4 teaspoon of cinnamon in with the dry ingredients or folding in 1/2 cup of chocolate chips or toasted nuts into the batter before pouring into the pan.
I do love how easy this banana bread is . I have tried it twice already – once with double the recipe so I could give the loaves away to some friends. I think next time , I ll try it with some brown sugar for a even deeper colour and flavour. But then , why mess with a good thing ?
Dear Mam, I prepared a basic all purpose flour bread . It turned good but not baked evenly from inside.
I preheated the oven in convection mode for 5 minutes at 200deg C. Later baked it at 180 deg C for 40 minutes. Please help. In manual it is nowhere mentioned about breads.
Hi… I m not an expert in breads Lathika…But in convection mode, it will work.. maybe u needed to bake longer at lower temperature like 160 c
I will try and post the outcome soon 🙂 . Thank u again 🙂
Thank you for the swift reply 🙂 . It is given to avoid aluminium tray/container in microwave oven , combination of micowave+grill and microwave+convection. Even silicon based material did not give good result in convection mode.
Ours is Onida 20 L Convection Microwave Oven.
you can use aluminium in only convection mode Lathika – no issues at all. Silicon can be a little tricky to handle , place the mould on a metal tray to make it easier to pour batter and move in and out of oven and also unmould once cool .. the bake should be fine 🙂
Hello ,
The bread looks scrumptious!! May i know what type of loaf pan gives better result if I try to bake in convection mode ?
Will this serve the purpose: https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B079GYL5VP/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AM1CEWS9LH5FH?
In the manual , it is given to avoid aluminium based pans. Kindly assist as I am a newbie in the field of baking 🙂
Hi Lathika… you can definitely use the pan in the link you have provided… :-). Does the manual to say to avoid aluminium pans in convection mode or just the microwave mode ?
Hi Akshata….just a doubt wen u say doubling the recipe all the ingredients will b doubled right….sorry for being so duh……
hey Anita… no query is “duh”… i used to have the funniest doubts when i started baking, still do sometimes… yes, you double every thing in the recipe. All ingredients.If you are using two pans of the same size, baking time and temperature remains same. If you are baking double the recipe in a bigger pan , temperature remains same , but start checking 5 minutes before time given in recipe…Hope this helps !
Its the perfect recipe.. came out super soft.. yummylicious!
Great … really happy you liked it so much Saloni! Thanks for trying !
Hi dear..can we replace 1/4 curd with 1 egg…
Hi Preethi… you can do that..or you can use another banana bread recipe (with eggs ) that I have on the blog- cinnamon raisin banana bread. You can make that one plain or with Nutella …