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Tip: Freeze Bananas (Plus Banana Bread Recipe)
Can you freeze bananas? You bet! Once a fresh banana is too ripe to eat don’t throw it out, you can freeze it in a number of ways:
Banana Slices
- Peel the banana and place it whole in a freezer bag
- Leave the peel on and freeze in a freezer bag
- Mash a ripe banana and place it in a sealed container to freeze
When you need bananas for baking (such as banana bread–yum!), just thaw and use. Here’s a banana bread recipe to try:
Banana Bread Recipe
1 3/4 cups sifted flour
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup crushed walnuts
1/3 cup shortening
1 – 1 1/4 cups ripe banana (mashed)
1/4 cup finely chopped dried apricots (optional)
2 1/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp lemon rind (grated)
1/2 tsp salt
1 – 2 beaten eggs
The secret to this recipe is to have all ingredients at room temperature before mixing.
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- First sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a separate bowl, blend until creamy the shortening, sugar and lemon. Beat in the eggs and mashed banana until well mixed. Add the above sifted dry ingredients one-third at a time, beating the batter smooth each time. Fold in the nuts and apricots (if used).
- Pour the batter into a well greased loaf pan.
- Bake one hour or until tooth pick comes out clean.
- Cool completely before slicing.
This recipe is from The Joy of Cooking cookbook. Also check out this new list of 35 Banana Bread Recipes I’ve compiled, lots to choose from!
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Tina thanks for your recipe! I moved it over to this post here: Random Tips From Tipnut Readers
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Frozen bananas are great for making smoothies, too.
Hi
Iwould like to tell you the hints are great.The tips for flavouring the meat is the best and easy to do when storing in freezer.
I like to cook bananas in a batter in the dep fryer when cooked sprinkle with
icind sugar and nutmeg mixed together,icecream or whipped cream mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Best Regards Grace
Frozen bannanas are also great just as they are (skins off).
They are great for baby food too.
Take a bannana not over ripe peel cut in half insert “popcicle” stick. Freeze when solid dunk in melted chocolate for yummy treat.
Note: if using high quality chocolate you can add a bit of shorting this helps chocolate to freeze like a shell on your popcicle.
Frozen bananas dipped in chocolate are called Monkey Tails.
I just throw the bananas whole into the freezer. When you need to use them, defrost, snip off the end and squeeze the lovely goo out. Yum. Shakes, pancakes and bread!