Malt loaf
There's something very satisfying about a cup of tea with a slice of sticky buttered malt loaf - this simple, good-for-you version makes two and improves on keeping
Brazil & banana bread
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook: -
- Easy
- Cuts into 12 slices
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- 100ml sunflower oilplus extra for greasing
- 140g caster sugar
- 140g plain flour
- 140g Brazil nutroughly chopped
- 50g desiccated coconut
- 1 tbsp butterdiced, plus extra to serve
- 2 large, very ripe bananas- with black skins is ideal (about 175g peeled weight)
- 1 large eggplus 1 large egg white
- 5 tbsp milk
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
Nutrition: per slice
- kcal299
- fat21g
- saturates6g
- carbs24g
- sugars16g
- fibre2g
- protein4g
- salt0.1glow
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.
