Best Banana Bread Recipe

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan.

In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan.

Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bread cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

Reference:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Banana-Banana-Bread/Detail.aspx

Thai Fried Bananas Recipe

Ingredients:

3 tbsp unsalted (sweet) butter
4 large slightly under-ripe bananas
1 tbsp desiccated (dry unsweetened shredded) coconut
¼ cup soft light brown sugar
4 tbsp lime juice
2 lime slices, to decorate
Thick and creamy plain yogurt, to serve


Cooking instructions:

Heat the butter in a large frying pan or wok and fry the bananas for 2 minutes on each side until golden. Meanwhile, dry-fry the coconut in a small frying pan until golden; set aside.

Sprinkle the sugar into the pan with the bananas. Add the lime juice and cook, stirring, until dissolved. Sprinkle the coconut over the bananas, decorate with lime and serve with yogurt.