Marble Bread

This month the BBD #2 – Bread with fruit is held at Columbus Foodie’s blog in Ohio.

I like using a bread machine: Once you have put the ingredients in the pan, the machine will do the rest. And if you are exceptionally lazy in a hurry there really are some decent ready-made mixtures on the market.

For this event I wanted to bake a bread to be eaten with cheese or ham, not a sweet one. The banana made it soft, but did not taste overly strong, the nuts made it slightly crunchy and the coconut gave a nice flavour.

The banana did not distribute evenly, making it look like a marble cake and this part even got darker each day.

Banana Cashew Coconut Bread

Source:	12.07.2007 by Sus
Categories:	Bread, Baking, Bread Machine, Banana, Coconut
Yield:	1 Bread

Ingredients:

150	ml	Water, at room temperature
150	ml	Milk, at room temperature
1	table spoon	Sugar
2	table spoon	Sun flower oil
500	gram	Flour
1	pck	Dry Yeast
1	tea spoon	Salt
2-3		Bananas, ripe
100	gram	Cashew nuts; half of it chopped und half of it ground
50	gram	Desiccated, shredded coconut

Preparation:

Put the water, the milk and the oil into the pan of the bread machine. Add the yeast together with the sugar and let dissolve for some minutes.
Add the flour, salt, coconut and cashew nuts. Peel the banana and add in slices.
Close the machine and let it do its work for about 3.5 hours, using the standard program with settings for a dark crust.

When finished, open the machine and let the bread cool down a bit before removing.

Deutsche Version

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