Quick and easy banana bread recipe you can mix in a single bowl and cook in an instant pot.
Straight To The Point #
🍌 Wet Mix
- Ripe bananas (x4-6)
- Eggs (x2)
- Olive Oil (120ml)
- Milk (60ml)
🧂 Powders
- Ground Cinnamon (10g / 2 tsp)
- Baking Powder (10g / 2 tsp)
- Baking Soda (10g / 2 tsp)
- Flour (240g)
- Salt (a pinch)
🍫 Fillers (Suggestive)
- Oats (50g)
- Vanilla sugar / extract.
- Honey
- Seeds, nuts, chocolate, etc.
The Image Guide #
Mise en place #
This is the list of ingredients (keen observers will note I didn’t end up using the butter). Select your ripest bananas, mine were stored in the fridge so they browned less.
Start by grabbing a mixing bowl and adding the peeled bananas to it. Use a masher to break them apart in a paste; if they are really ripe it’s easy to do this with a fork also.
Add all the other wet ingredients first: the olive oil, milk, and eggs. Stir until thoroughly combined.
Then add the powdered ingredients: baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon, and a pinch of salt. Here I also added a small pack of vanilla sugar, but if you have extract, use that.
Then add the flower and oats on top and mix again.
Here is how the base mix should look like so far.
From here, you can add whatever fillings you desire. I used diced dark chocholate and some pumpkin seeds. To offset the bitterness from the chockolate, I also added a few squeezes of honey.
Other good choices include walnuts and peanut butter.
With the mixture ready, it is time to transfer to the pot. Oil up the pot’s walls to prevent sticking, either with more olive oil or non-stick spray. To be extra cautious, I also cut a circle of parchment paper to place at the bottom.
Transfer the mixture over it, distribute it evenly, and sprinkle some more oats and stuff on top for decoration.
Cooking instructions depend on what model you have, in my case, it was a pressure cooker that had a Dessert mode, so I used that at low pressure for about 40 minutes. This can be done in a normal rice cooker too, or an oven.
Check in on it after 30-35 minutes, or when the scent of cinnamon becomes tempting, and do a toothpick test: stab it and if the pick comes out clean, you should be close to finished.
Here is how mine turned out. Leave to rest and cool for 15-20 minutes.
To get it out, I used a couple of plates that fit in nicely inside the pot, turned the pot upside down, lift gently, then using the second plate turn it upright again.
The result is a very soft, flavorful but not overly sweet banana bread. Works great with morning coffee.
Enjoy! 🍞