Last week, I found a huge bag of overripe organic bananas at the store for $1.49. This purchase started me looking for online buttermilk banana bread recipes that I could easily convert to a Nourishing Traditions-style, soaked recipe. The below recipe is adapted from Taste of Home. Over the weekend, I made and froze a quadruple recipe of this amazing bread. Oh-- yes, we did manage to eat it for breakfast two mornings in a row.
Soaked Banana Buttermilk Muffins
1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
1/2 cup coconut oil, softened
2 cups freshly ground whole wheat flour (I used hard white wheat berries)
2 eggs
2 large ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup rapadura
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1. Combine buttermilk, coconut oil and flour in a large mixing bowl. Cover and let sit 12-24 hours in a warm place.
2. Preheat oven to 400°.
3. Beat eggs, bananas and vanilla extract into flour mixture. Stir dry ingredients together: sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda. Mix combined dry ingredients into flour-banana mixture.
4. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 400° for 16-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.
Yield: 15 muffins.
Alternately, you can pour the mixture into a greased and floured loaf pan and bake at 325° for an hour, if you'd prefer a loaf of banana bread.
Why soak flour products?
Soaked Banana Buttermilk Muffins
1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
1/2 cup coconut oil, softened
2 cups freshly ground whole wheat flour (I used hard white wheat berries)
2 eggs
2 large ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup rapadura
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1. Combine buttermilk, coconut oil and flour in a large mixing bowl. Cover and let sit 12-24 hours in a warm place.
2. Preheat oven to 400°.
3. Beat eggs, bananas and vanilla extract into flour mixture. Stir dry ingredients together: sugar, salt, baking powder, baking soda. Mix combined dry ingredients into flour-banana mixture.
4. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 400° for 16-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.
Yield: 15 muffins.
Alternately, you can pour the mixture into a greased and floured loaf pan and bake at 325° for an hour, if you'd prefer a loaf of banana bread.
Why soak flour products?
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