Are those bananas your kids swore they would eat sitting on the counter going bad? Make up a loaf of this sourdough discard banana bread! It makes for a delicious breakfast or a tasty dessert. Don’t throw money in the trash, throw it in the oven instead!
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Santa Delivers Sourdough Discard Banana Bread!
I am always looking for homemade Christmas gifts for extended family and friends. I find that the cheap little things you find in the Christmas section of the store often wind up in the donation box by January 1. Plus buying all of that can get costly. Instead I prefer to make little gifts for everybody. When deciding what to make, I try to keep things practical. What will people use and enjoy? The answer is often food. Check out my apple butter recipe if you are looking to make a gift that will last longer than this sourdough discard banana bread. You can find festive containers at the Dollar Tree that are a perfect packaging for some banana bread.
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Why Sourdough?
Sourdough was used by people to leaven bread before they were able to go to the store and by those little yeast packets. Sourdough is the old-fashioned yeast packet.
Grains contain phytic acid, but our bodies don’t really process it well. Phytic acid prevents our bodies from absorbing the nutrients from our food. Fermentation gets rid of most, if not all of the phytic acid, in the grains before we eat them. The fermentation process also helps break down some gluten, so although the bread isn’t gluten free it does have a lower gluten content. This allows people like me, who are sensitive to gluten, to eat sourdough. It also acts like a probiotic, which makes it great for gut health. Sourdough has prebiotic characteristics as well, which simply means that the good bacteria in your gut enjoy eating the fiber.
Sourdough Discard Banana Bread Recipe
Ingredients
8 tablespoons butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
3 bananas
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 ½ cup flour
Instructions
- First cream 8 tablespoons of room temperature butter and 1 cup of sugar together. For any of you like me, that means mixing them together really well. I use my KitchenAid.
- Next add in 2 eggs.
- Then mash 3 bananas before adding them to the bowl.
- Now mix in ½ teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, ½ cup sourdough discard, and 1 ½ cups of flour. Add the flour slowly. I put in a quarter cup at a time because there’s a quarter cup measuring spoon in my flour. Mix it on low if using a mixer to avoid a flour cloud.
- Finally, grease one loaf pan or three mini loaf pans. Pour in the batter. Then bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Reduce the heat for a dark pan. 325 should work. Or buy a new pan because you will burn everything you bake. Yes, I know this from experience too.
Long Fermented Sourdough Discard Banana Bread
If you wish to do a long ferment for even more healthy gut benefits, mix the sugar, butter, flour, and sourdough discard together and allow it to sit overnight. This will allow all of the flour to ferment. Long fermented food help to lower the glycemic index of foods and break down the gluten strand and phytic acid.
Sourdough Discard Banana Bread
Are those bananas your kids swore they would eat sitting on the counter going bad? Make up a loaf of this sourdough discard banana bread! It makes for a delicious breakfast or a tasty dessert. Don’t throw money in the trash, throw it in the oven instead!
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 bananas
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ cup flour
- ½ sourdough discard
Instructions
- First cream 8 tablespoons of room temperature butter and 1 cup of sugar together. For any of you like me, that means mixing them together really well. I use my KitchenAid.
- Next add in 2 eggs.
- Then mash 3 bananas before adding them to the bowl.
- Now mix in ½ teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, ½ cup sourdough discard, and 1 ½ cups of flour. Add the flour slowly. I put in a quarter cup at a time because there’s a quarter cup measuring spoon in my flour. Mix it on low if using a mixer to avoid a flour cloud.
- Finally, grease one loaf pan or three mini loaf pans. Pour in the batter. Then bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes. Reduce the heat for a dark pan. 325 should work. Or buy a new pan because you will burn everything you bake. Yes, I know this from experience too.
The site may contain links to affiliate websites, and we receive an affiliate commission for any purchases made by you on the affiliate website using such links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. As a Revive EO Affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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