Receta Yeasted Banana Sandwich Bread | We Knead to Bake September '15
I love banana bread though I never tried yeasted version. So when Aparna suggested yeasted version from KingArthurFlour for this months challenge I did try it out and it was perfect with nutella and peanut butter.
I halved the recipe and got a mini loaf which went well with tea.
Ingredients:
- Lukewarm Milk:4+ tbsp
- Wheat flour: 1 cup
- All Purpose Flour: 1/2 cup
- Vital wheat gluten: 3/4 tsp
- Soft Butter: 1 tbsp
- Instant yeast: 1 tsp
- Salt: 1/2 tsp
- Honey: 1.5 tsp
- Banana: 3/4 cups chopped +/-(12 tbsp)
Preparation:
In a bowl, mix together the flours,gluten,yeast and salt. Add in honey,butter and milk (3 tbsp at first) and start mixing together adding milk little more if needed. Once a sticky dough is formed, fold in the chopped bananas and continue kneading until you get a smooth soft almost non sticky dough.
Mine was ok -ok. The bananas got mashed and added to the stickiness.I needed barely 5 tbsp of milk.
Shape it into a ball and place in an oiled bowl and let it rise for another 1.5 - 2 hours until it doubles.At this stage you can refrigerate the dough and let it rise in the fridge overnight. If this is done, take it out atleast 20-30 minutes before the second rise.
Gently deflate the dough and place it in a greased loaf tin and let it rise under a loose wrap for an hour until it assumes the shape of the loaf and hopefully rises above the corners of the tin.
Meanwhile preheat the oven to 180C, brush the top of the bread with milk and sprinkle optional toppings like oats etc.
Bake for 30-40 minutes or more until the top is golden brown. Take out let it cool completely on a wire rack.
The bread is not sweet. Maybe it will be if the bananas used are overtly sweet. The bread can be used as a sandwich bread with even savoury spreads or gravies.
Else you can serve it with maple/butterscotch syrups, nutella and other sweet preserves/spreads.
You can even spice it up with cardamom, cinnamon etc and include nuts as well while kneading the dough. And obviously you can replace the bananas and go for oranges pineapple etc to get a different flavoured bread. Make sure you adjust the sweetness quotient as per your choice.