Banana Bread

I never had the habit of drinking Tea until i get the first sip of my office chai wallah’s Tea. I remember so well the strong heady aroma that gripped my taste buds. His Chai is filled with the aroma of green cardamom & ginger. Now i am a happy tea lover 🙂

Tea plantation in ooty.

Doddabetta Tea factory, at connor.

This is the place where they show how they produce tea. The Tea factory sells all type of tea cardamom tea, ginger tea & green tea etc etc..They give us a sample of tea to taste, to tell you the truth it tastes heavenly. Their product didn’t taste good when we try it in our home.My advise is just watch the process, don’t get over excited to buy their product.But it is worth the visit to see those process.You can get a glimpse of the whole process of preparing a tea, starting from the plucked leaf to the rolling, drying & shifting stages until the tea grains are poured into the jute bags that came for retail sale.

A nice cup of tea & a sit down chat will relieve all the day stress 🙂

Banana Bread is my favourite recipe. This one is fool proof, no way you can go wrong with this one.

Serves- 4-5

Ingredients

Banana – 2 no

All purpose flour/ maida – 1 cup/200gms

Corn flour- 1/4 cup/ 50 gms

Egg- 1no

Baking Powder – 1tsp

Baking soda – 1/2 tsp

salt- a pinch

Sugar – 1/2 cup

melted Butter/ Ghee- 1/2 cup

vanilla essence- 1 tsp

Preparation

1. Mash the bananas, add one egg and vanilla essence to the mashed bananas.

2. Whisk together the melted butter / ghee and sugar.Whisk until completely combined and the mixture is smooth.

3. Sieve all purpose flour, corn flour, Baking powder,soda & salt in a bowl.

4. Mix the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. You can add milk to adjust the batter consistency.

5. Pour the batter in the greased loaf pan. Bake in a preheated oven at 180*c for 30 to 35 minutes, until it is golden in colour.

Slice & serve it with a cup of Spiced Tea 🙂

Note: If you don’t have corn flour replace it with all purpose flour or whole wheat flour.

Ripe Bananas are the key to make a great banana cake.

You can add in some chopped nuts or chocolate chips to the batter which is optional.