Ricotta-Pistachio-Rosewater Banana Bread
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A basic Banana Bread made special.
Author: Ash
Recipe type: Breakfast, Snack
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 1 cup All purpose flour
- ½ cup Whole wheat flour
- ¼ cup powdered pistachios
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp rose water
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 2 small bananas or 1 cup mashed
- ¼ cup ricotta cheese
- ½ banana thinly sliced
- pistachios to garnish
- sugared rose petals
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a round 7 inch round pan with parchment or butter and flour it.
- Wash rose petals, dry it. coat it with some egg wash and generously coat with powdered sugar. Let it dry.
- In a large mixing bowl add the all purpose flour+whole wheat flour+pistachio powder+baking powder+salt. Mix and incorporate well.
- In a separate bowl beat the eggs and add the mashed banana, mix well. Add all the other ingredients, oil, ricotta cheese, rose water and whip well until it all incorporated. Then add the dry ingredients and mix well. Be careful not to over mix it. The batter will be thick.You can arrange the bananas neatly on top.
- Pour in the prepared baking pan and bake for about 50- 1 hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Mine took exactly about 1 hour. Take it out and let cool over a cooling rack before cutting in. Garnish with some pistachios or some sugared rose petals.
Notes
!Variations:
You can substitute the ricotta cheese with equal amount of butter milk. If you do not have buttermilk add yogurt.
Substitute pistachio powder for Cashew powder, Almond powder.
To make it chocolate based, add 2 tbsp of cocoa powder and minus the 2 tbsp from the all purpose flour.
You can omit the rose water and add 1 tsp of vanilla extract for normal bread or even ¼ tsp of almond extract when making almond based banana bread
BAKING: You can use any kind and size of pan you want. If you use smaller, then vary the times and increase the oven to 10 degrees more.
You can make individual loaves, cool it and wrap it for gifts.
You can substitute the ricotta cheese with equal amount of butter milk. If you do not have buttermilk add yogurt.
Substitute pistachio powder for Cashew powder, Almond powder.
To make it chocolate based, add 2 tbsp of cocoa powder and minus the 2 tbsp from the all purpose flour.
You can omit the rose water and add 1 tsp of vanilla extract for normal bread or even ¼ tsp of almond extract when making almond based banana bread
BAKING: You can use any kind and size of pan you want. If you use smaller, then vary the times and increase the oven to 10 degrees more.
You can make individual loaves, cool it and wrap it for gifts.
Recipe by Food Fashion Party at https://www.foodfashionparty.com/2015/05/06/ricotta-pistachio-rosewater-banana-bread-moms-post/