I just stumbled upon the most moist, delicious banana bread recipe, as often is, by chance… I used the “big book” (Cooks Illustrated) but I was missing yogurt so I used buttermilk, brown sugar instead of granulated, and salted butter instead of sweet. The result is one of the best banana breads I have ever eaten. Here goes:
Dry ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup brown sugar
Wet ingredients:
3 large, ripe bananas, well mashed
3/4 stick of salted butter, melted & cooled
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/4 cup buttermilk
Simply mix all dry ingredients together. Then all wet ingredients together. Incorporate the wet batter to the dry mix, mixing just until dry ingredients are fully incorporated to the wet batter. Do not over-mix or the bread will be too dense. Pour the batter into a greased and floured non-stick loaf pan. Bake in pre-heated 350 oven for 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes up clean. Let it cool on a rack 5-10 minutes and eat soon!
Try it out and share your impressions!
