Need a new way to use up your discarded sourdough starter? Try this sweet and moist banana bread. Tastes just like the banana bread you know and love.
Print the recipe here:
Classic Sourdough Banana Bread:
Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 60 minutes Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Yield: 1 loaf 1x
Category: quick bread
Method: baking
Cuisine: American
ingredients
1/4 cup softened butter
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
3 bananas, mashed
1 cup discard sourdough starter, stirred
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350. Prepare a loaf pan my greasing with vegetable oil spray or butter.
2. Beat the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed. Add the egg and vanilla, mixing until combined.
3. Add the mashed banana and sourdough starter, mixing on low.
4. In a separate medium mixing bowl mix the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Add it to the wet ingredients and mix on low until just combined.
5. Pour into loaf pan, smoothing out the top with a spatula, and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean. The top will split. Allow to cool before slicing. Store at room temperature, tightly wrapped, for up to three days,
notes
To freeze, allow to cool completely and wrap in plastic wrap and then aluminum foil. Keeps in freezer for 2 months.
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hi I’m Katie from heart’s contentfarmhouse and today we are gonna bemaking very easy very simple recipe forsourdough banana bread so everysourdough Baker is always looking forrecipes to use up discarded sourdoughstarter every time you feed it you needto discard a little bit of it or else itwill totally take over your kitchen andbecome crazy mouths so it feels wrong tojust dump it in the trash and so wealways want recipes where we can use itup I do have a video for a sourdoughpizza crust that is another sourdoughdiscard recipe and also one forsourdough carrot cupcakes this isanother one along that same line at thecupcakesit’s a sourdough banana bread and I feellike when you hear the title you’dprobably think that would be grossbecause sour and banana bread do notsound like they go together but itdoesn’t taste like sourdough at all itreally if you ever baked with buttermilkand you got that like really subtletangy taste that you can barely evendetect it’s kind of like that or evenlike when you add yogurt to a bit goodit doesn’t taste sour it doesn’t tastelike sourdough it’s just a way to use upan ingredient that you would otherwisethrow away and you kind of feel goodabout yourself when you use it so ourvery first step it’s just like makingany kind of cake we are gonna beat thebutter and sugar in a large mixing bowlwe’re using a quarter cup of butter youwant it softened to room temperature andunsalted or salted are both going towork if you do use salted you can justleave the salt out of the recipe Itypically use unsalted it’s also gonnabe a cup of sugar just plain white sugarit’s not a health food and then we aregonna add and once that has beatentogether we’re gonna add in an egg we’regonna add a teaspoon of vanilla and thenwe are gonna add in three mashed veryripe bananas and the bananas are reallya critical ingredient here if you havesort of ripe bananas it’s not reallygonna be a very good banana bread youwant them ripe to overwrite a nice butit’s really gonna give you a more sweetand moist banana bread and now we put in1 cup of our unfed discarded sourdoughstarter we feel very superior while wedo it and then we are gonna mix our dryingredients in a separate Bowl so that’sa cup and a halfregular flour the salt if you need it ateaspoon of baking powder and half ateaspoon of baking soda just mix thosequick and a big bowl and then slowly addthose into your other ingredients andmix everything together you pour thisinto a greased loaf pan you could alsodo this as muffins by the way but so fora loaf pan we’re gonna be good up 350for one hour if you’re doing it asmuffins or cupcakes I would do about 25minutes sometimes I will serve this likewith a caramel icing which super healthhealthy but that’s okay and sometimes Iwill serve it as a loaf and make it moreof a breakfast food but either way it’sreally simple really easy and somethingthat I think you’ll enjoy if yourregular sourdough Baker and you’retrying to use some of that starter up sothank you for watching I hope you trythis recipe and have a good day[Music]