My sister sent me her gluten free banana bread recipe. It is a winner! I added the walnut element. Unlike some of the recent gluten-free recipes I have tried recently it is not sugar-free or vegan so it is not so as surprising that it is nice (if you add butter and sugar to most things they are nice, right? :) ). I think this is actually my favourite banana bread recipe of all time including when compared to non-GF recipes. This is the one I will be making from now on even if it is not intended for gluten-free people.
Gluten-Free Banana Bread
175g brown rice flour
50g cornflour
75g walnut pieces
100g caster sugar
2 teaspoons gluten-free baking powder
2 pinches salt
100g unsalted butter
3 mashed bananas
2 large eggs
1kg loaf tin greased
1. Preheat oven to 180 C or 350 F
2. Cream the butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs one by one. Mix in the banana.
3. Sift the brown rice flour, the cornflour, the baking powder, and the salt. Mix into the banana mixture, then add the walnuts.
4. Pour into the loaf tin and bake for 1 hour until a skewer comes out clean and the top is very golden.
5. Remove from tin and cool on a rack.
I think that the difference that makes it nicer is that the crumb is a bit denser.
4 Comments
i like your secondary title. why does gluten free have to exclude anyone?
Yes indeed! I added the title as sometimes gluten-free things can be less good and I wanted to be clear that I think this is for anyone :) Although my friend later pointed out that if you don’t like bananas or walnuts you won’t like it!
It sure looks good. And it’s nice of you to share the recipe. If only I had an oven!
Thank you. Yes I am quite keen to get any gluten-free recipes out in the world as I know that sometimes it can be hard to find good versions of GF recipes :)