Hello and welcome to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor. Today I am going
to teach you how to make amazing banana bread. So if you are like me you will go to the store
and you will buy bananas, and a lot of times you don't eat them all, and they just sit
there in your fruit basket, and they get these spots on them, and then they start getting
darker and darker, and then you totally stay away from them, and you wind up throwing them
away. Instead of throwing them away, make some banana bread. I will show you how, quick
and easy, anyone can do it. Let's get started. For the ingredients we need 1 and two thirds
cups of flour, I am going to use bread flour, or you can use all purpose flour as well,
1 teaspoon of baking soda, 1 fourth teaspoon of ground cinnamon, and one half teaspoon
of salt, 1 cup of sugar, 2 large eggs, 1 half cup of canola oil, 3 large ripe bananas, 1
teaspoon of vanilla extract, and one half cup of chopped walnuts, you can use more if
you like. First preheat the oven at 350 degrees, now I am going to take my cinnamon, baking
soda, and salt, and I am going to whisk it in my flour, or if you have a sifter you can
sift it in there, whisking works just fine. Ok I am going to put that aside. Now, let
us put in our eggs, and add our sugar. And we are going to whisk that together, you can
also use a hand mixer if you want. Now add our oil. Add our vanilla extract. I am going
to mix that up a little bit. Ok, I am going to set this aside, and now we are going to
mash our bananas. We take them and peel them, nice really ripe bananas. I am going to use
a meat tenderizer and just kind of mash these up. Get it to where it is a nice paste. That
is ready. And then I am going to take my mixture back, and I am going to add my bananas to
the rest of this mixture here. Add our walnuts. And now I am going to use a wooden spatula
and fold this all together, like so. Ok and now we are going to fold in the flour, little
by little. We will mix it in. We will make sure to scrape the sides, periodically, so
it all gets mixed in. Add the rest of the flour now. Ok I am going to take my pan and
spray it a little bit with my cooking spray, you can also use parchment paper if you want,
just a quick little spray. Then let us go ahead an put our mixture here right here in
this pan. This is a 9 by 5 inch pan. Ok, and there we go, we will go ahead and put this
in the oven and we will bake it at 350 degrees, for 45 minutes to an hour. I am going to start
it at 45 minutes, I will take it out, then check it with a toothpick, and see if the
toothpick comes out nice and dry. If it is not, if the toothpick comes out wet, then
we will put it in for 5 more minutes, and we will keep checking it until it is ready
to go. Now we will go ahead and put it in the oven. Ok I took it out of the oven, it
was on for 45 minutes, and I am going to take a toothpick and poke it in here, and pull
it out, it looks nice and clean, ready to go. Notice it is a little brown on here, that's
ok, I don't mind it. But if you don't want it to be this brown, you can go ahead
and cover it will foil over the top, about 30 minutes in, and that will help it to not
get this brown. It looks good, it is ready to go. Time to eat. Alright our banana bread
is done, and now for the break down. Total time to make this about 15 to 20 minutes for
the prep and about 45 minutes to an hour baking in the oven. Total cost, one dollar 74 cents
give or take. That is a pretty good deal. A specialty bread like this, will run you
any where from 3 to 4 to 5 dollars. So it is a great deal, make them at home, easy to
do, and so if you have some old bananas lying around, make some banana bread, it tastes
amazing. Now time for me to try some. I am Matt Taylor, this has been another episode
of In the Kitchen with Matt, I hope you enjoyed watching it, please subscribe to my channel,
and I will see you again soon. Take care.