The bananas have gone brown. It must be time for... but let's do it healthierly. And vegan, of course.
FIRST: Soak three tablespoons of chia seeds in six tablespoons of water for at least 10 mins
THEN: Preheat oven to 180c (that's with fan, 190 if no fan)
4 ripe bananas
3 tablespoons oil (I use rapeseed because it's full of omega 3 but doesn't have the strong taste of hemp)
1/2 cup coconut sugar
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups of flour (any flour, choice will obv affect texture and spring, I like to use white spelt and wholegrain wheat mixed up)
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1-2 teaspoons cinnamon
1. Mash bananas - do this as roughly or as smoothly as you like, depending on how you like your BB
2. Mix soaked chia seed/water mixture, sugar and syrup, oil and vanilla essence into the bananas
3. Mix flour, cinnamon, bicarb and baking powder and salt in a separate bowl
4. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet, working in 3-4 batches so that lumps do not form and you have a uniform mixture
5. Grease and line a 2lb (1kg) loaf tin
6. Pour mixture into loaf tin
7. Put in oven, set timer for 35 mins
8. 35 mins PING check BB with toothpick to see how far along it is. Is it getting too brown but still far off being ready? If so, wrap it in tin foil before replacing in oven for another 10 mins or so.
9. Check with toothpick. When toothpick comes out clean, BB is ready.
10. Cool on rack.