Name: Brazil & banana bread
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 55 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: Cuts into 12 slices
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 100ml sunflower oil plus extra for greasing; 140g caster sugar; 140g plain flour; 140g Brazil nut roughly chopped; 50g desiccated coconut; 1 tbsp butter diced, plus extra to serve; 2 large, very ripe bananas - with black skins is ideal (about 175g peeled weight); 1 large egg plus 1 large egg white; 5 tbsp milk; ½ tsp baking powder; ¼ tsp ground cinnamon

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Brazil & banana bread

Brazil & banana bread

Sarah Cook

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Cuts into 12 slices

Easy

Prep: 30 mins

Cook: 45 mins - 55 mins

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Often overlooked, these nuts deserve their turn in the spotlight - bake into a squidgy, soft loaf cake with fruit and coconut

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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100ml sunflower oil

plus extra for greasing
140g caster sugar
140g plain flour
140g Brazil nut

roughly chopped
50g desiccated coconut
1 tbsp butter

diced, plus extra to serve
2 large, very ripe bananas

- with black skins is ideal (about 175g peeled weight)
1 large egg

plus 1 large egg white
5 tbsp milk
½ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp ground cinnamon

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Nutrition: per slice

kcal299
fat21g
saturates6g
carbs24g
sugars16g
fibre2g
protein4g
salt0.1g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease a 900g loaf tin, then line the base and ends with a long strip of baking parchment. Stir together 2 tbsp each of the sugar, flour, nuts and coconut. Add the butter and rub together to sticky crumbs. Set aside.
step 2

Mash the bananas well, then stir in the sunflower oil, egg and milk. In a separate large bowl, mix half of the remaining sugar, followed by the remaining flour, nuts and coconut, then the baking powder and cinnamon.
step 3

Whisk the egg white to stiff peaks, add the final bit of sugar and whisk again until stiff and shiny. Stir the banana mixture into the dry ingredients, then lightly fold in the egg white mixture. Gently scrape into the tin and scatter over the crumb mixture.
step 4

Bake for 40 mins until a skewer poked in comes out clean, covering with foil if the bread starts to go too brown. Cool in the tin, then remove and thickly slice, eating with butter, if you like.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2013

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