[[!meta title="Banana Walnut Bread"]]

Adapted from Food Network

3015 cal/recipe

## Ingredients

+ 1/2 c unsalted butter
+ 1/2 c walnut pieces, toasted
+ 1 1/4 c all-purpose flour
+ 1 tsp baking soda
+ 1/2 tsp salt
+ 2 large eggs, at room temperature
+ 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
+ 1 c granulated sugar
+ 3 very ripe bananas, peeled

## Directions

+ Brown butter in small pan on stovetop and allow to cool to room temperature.
+ Turn on oven to 350 F.
+ Toast walnuts on small silicon mat and baking sheet for about 2 minutes then allow to cool to room temperature.
+ Grease 2 loaf pans (about 9 inches by 5 inches).
+ Sift flour, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl.
+ Whisk eggs and vanilla in a small bowl.
+ Cream butter and sugar in an electric mixer.
+ Slowly add egg mixture to butter mixture while beating.
+ Beat bananas into butter mixture.
+ Mix dry ingredients and walnuts into butter mixture on low speed or by hand until just incorporated. 
+ Divide batter among the 2 loaf pans.
+ Cook loaf pans on same rack in oven for about 55 minuts, until a toothpick in the middle is very clean.
+ Remove pans from oven and cool on wire rack for 5 minutes.
+ Remove bread from pans and cool bread completely before storing in fridge.

## Note
This recipe works well with slightly green to brown bananas. 
The riper the banana, the more the bread will taste of banana. 
However, if the banana has some bad spots in the flesh, remove the spots so they don't harm the flavor.

[[!tag banana bread walnut]]