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Banana, Dates and Pistachios Bread

2017-08-12
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Banana, Dates, Pistachios Bread, have you ever had this combination?

I love baking quick, no fuss breads to serve with tea or coffee. I am not a big sweet tooth but I like a warm bread slice once in a while and Banana Bread is the best combination with coffee.

When I was living in Tokyo, I received 3-4 kgs of dates from one of my students and I went all out with everything with dates recipes ;). This is I came up with Banana, dates and walnut bread recipe.

I always bake banana and dates bread but I wanted to try something new this time.

The banana, dates and almond or walnuts combination is quite common but I thought why not bake it with pistachios instead! It was a pleasant surprise to see how soft, moist this bread came out. I have been baking this bread since and I love it!

The crunchiness of pistachios is absolutely amazing in this Banana, Dates, Pistachios Bread. I like to eat this bread with a cup of tea or sometimes even with my cold coffee.

Do give this recipe a try!

Banana, Dates and Pistachios Bread

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup plain flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  • ½ tsp each clove and ginger powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup pitted dates cut in pieces
  • ½ cup hot water
  • 2 big size riped bananas mashed
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract/ essence or paste
  • ½ cup roasted sliced pistachios
  • 2 eggs
  • ⅓ cup vegetable oil (canola oil or sunflower)

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 165C/325F. Line the loaf pan with a baking paper in the bottom.

Whisk together plain flour, salt, baking powder, soda and spices. Keep it aside.

Mix hot water, a pinch of baking soda and dates together, keep it aside.

Whisk the oil and sugar well. Add the egg and continue whisking for about 1 minute. Add the mashed up banana and vanilla flavouring. Mix it well.

Now add the dates mixture, add flour in 3 batches. Fold in half of the pistachios and pour the batter in the pan. If the batter is too thick add 1 tbsp milk.

Tap the pan on the counter to get rid of the bubbles. Sprinkle rest of the pistachios on the top.

Bake in preheated oven for 45-55 minutes or till the toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.

After baking transfer to a cooling rack. Sprinkle the top with confectioners sugar (optional).

Serve with hot coffee! Enjoy!!

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7 Comments

  • Reply Rashmi Tambe 2017-09-24 at 15:07

    Very interesting recipe, combination of pistachios and dates, trial for next weekend

  • Reply Rashmi Tambe 2017-09-24 at 15:08

    Isn’t 1 tsp soda and 1/2 tsp baking powder too much for 1 cup?

    • Reply Gayatri Singh 2017-09-25 at 13:24

      Believe me it’s not. for the dates you have to use a bit more baking soda.

  • Reply Komal 2019-06-21 at 12:42

    In above recipe Please suggest Substitute for Egg.
    Also in other cake recipe what should be the substitute of 1 egg.

    • Reply Gayatri Singh 2019-06-24 at 09:48

      Hello Komal,
      I usually don’t make eggless cakes or breads but let me think about the substitute. Maybe try with apple sauce?

  • Reply Jack R Thomas 2020-04-25 at 04:41

    I’m thinking about making this recipe – it looks great. However, just glancing at the recipe I see that it only calls for 1 cup of flour. Is that enough? Most other recipes of this same size will call for 1 1/2 to 2 cups of flour. Will it not be sort of gluey and too soft in the middle even when it is done with only this amount of flour?
    Just wondering…?
    Thanks,
    Jack

    • Reply Gayatri Singh 2020-04-27 at 22:08

      Hello Jack,

      When I made it the last time, it came out perfect. I can try again and check if it works. 🙂

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