According to Medical News Today, bananas are rich in potassium and fiber. They may help prevent asthma, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and digestive problems.
Most of the time we eat bananas as they are; our favourites are Pisang Berangan and Pisang Rastali. Sometimes, we eat them with our cereals for breakfast or made into pancakes for breakfast or snacks or as a dessert with ice cream. We also add them into our Bubur Cha Cha. We also love banana fritters as tea time snacks. Usually, we will buy Pisang Awak or Pisang Abu for frying them into fritters. We also use bananas to bake Banana Cake, Banana Muffins or Banana Bread.
We bake Banana Bread quite frequently as it is delicious, aromatic, soft and easy to bake. The latter involves only mixing of a few ingredients. To make it, we need bananas of course, all-purpose flour, baking soda, oil, sugar, milk, salt, oil, eggs and some chocolate chips:
Dry Ingredients:
• 2 cups of all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
Sieve and mix these 3 ingredients in a bowl and set them aside.
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of chocolate chips
Wet Ingredients:
• 1/3 cup of oil
• 100 ml of milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/4 cup of mashed bananas (I use Pisang Berangan.)
In another bowl, mix the oil and sugar. Whisk until the sugar is dissolved.
Add in the milk and whisk until they are combined.
Add in the eggs and whisk till they are well mixed.
Assembly:
• Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celcius.
• Grease and line a loaf pan of 8 in x 4 in x 4 in.
• Put 1/2 of the flour mixture into the bowl of wet ingredients. Stir to mix them up using a
spatula. Then, do the same with the remaining flour.
• Add in the mashed bananas. Mix well.
• Finally, add in the chocolate chips.
• Pour the batter into the pan.
• Bake for 50 minutes.
• Once the bread is baked, remove it immediately from the pan
and let it cool down on the wire rack. (You may test if it is baked by inserting a skewer
into the middle of the bread.)
• Remove the parchment paper from the bread.
• Let the bread cool down completely before cutting it.