During the month of Ramadan, this is a fantastic recipe to prepare. It comes from Egypt. Whenever possible, bake in a clay baking dish. If not, any large baking dish will do. With rice is ideal.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 40 mins |
| Servings: | 30 |
| Yield: | 2 loaves |
Ingredients
- ½ cup shortening
- 4 large ripe bananas
- 2 cups Amish Friendship Bread Starter (see footnote for recipe link)
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- ½ cup milk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease two 9×5-inch loaf pans.
- Mash together shortening and bananas in a large bowl, then stir in Amish starter, eggs, sugar, walnuts, and milk.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Fold into the banana mixture. Divide batter evenly into the prepared pans.
- Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaves comes out clean, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Cool loaves until they loosen evenly from the pan before removing to a wire rack to cool completely, about 10 minutes.
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Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 160 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 23 g |
| Cholesterol | 17 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 96 mg |
| Sugars | 10 g |
| Fat | 7 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Yum! I used margarine in place of the lard, but would have used butter instead if I wasn’t out of it. I added two capfuls of banana oil, 2 tsp of homemade vanilla, as well 1/2 c. mini semi sweet chips, too. Really tasty toasted with whipped cream cheese up top, and generally nutritious, too. Great use of starter!
Turned out very moist. Added milk chocolate chips for personal preference. The bananas have to be ripe to get the depth in flavor. Kept a loaf and gifted the other to a neighbor.
These turned out so yummy! It’s my first try cooking with my friendship bread starter. I had some bananas to use so I found this recipe. I just sampled my first batch of muffins. Delish! I have a loaf in now. I did increase the salt to 3/4 and it’s great.
Awesome with my starter and pecans.
Love this banana bread and make it all the time!
This turned out amazing but I did have a few modifications! I used salted butter instead of shortening and added a 1/2 tsp cinnamon. I also omitted the milk on accident but the recipe turned out fine. I baked for about 1 hour and 5 minutes with my convection oven. This is maybe the best banana bread I’ve ever made!!
I’m going to make this again today with a couple of changes-adding vanilla and cinnamon-maybe chocolate chips also. I also used buttermilk the first bake will do it again.
Tried this and loved it . Put pecans instead of walnuts . Couldn’t get it to cool down fast enough for my wonderful family to eat it .
Great- but made a substitution. I thought this recipe was wonderful. I read that some people felt that the banana flavor wasn’t as much as they would have liked, so I added another half of banana and added half a package of vanilla instant pudding. I also subbed 1/4 of the shortening for 1/4C of butter. Lastly I sprinkled some sugar on top. It came out REALLY good. I think this will be my new go to recipe for banana bread. Note I also needed to cook it an extra 10 minutes and could have probably cooked it another 5-10 minutes, but it was still reall good and cooked through.
My family LOVES this bread. I make the banana bread every cycle and the loaves are gone by the end of the week.
Tried this recipe today and it turned out great.
A little to sweet tasting for me next time will only add half cup sugar to mixture. Otherwise very good.
Very very good bread! I forgot the last step in the 10 day process before splitting up the starter and just started making bread, but all of the bread batches I made still turned out great and I froze more than half of them.
Our new favorite banana bread! Using the friendship starter always produces such moist, flavorful loaves of bread, and this one is no different. I did cut this recipe in half, so I only had to use 1 cup of the starter. I also used 2 full eggs, and added in a small package of dry banana pudding mix. Most other friendship bread recipes that I have made call for vanilla pudding, so I decided to add the pudding, and banana just seemed to be the right choice for this bread. It was a huge success. I now have the starter going with several in the freezer because of how much we enjoy this particular bread!
This recipe is now the only recipe for banana bread that we will ever use. My family loved this bread so much that the boxed brand banana bread I made two days ago is now being passed up. This bread is very moist. I only made one loaf and changed the recipe a bit. 1 cup starter, 2 ripe bananas, 2 eggs, 1/4 cup milk, 1/4 cup white sugar, 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt and 1 cup flour. Didn’t have any walnuts so I didn’t add them. I also added a little cinnamon and a very small pinch of nutmeg. It came out very nicely. Will be making again for years to come. Thank you for the recipe.
I’ve made this recipe as-is a few times and it is excellent. I’ve also used it as a basis for experimentation. I’ve found that if my starter isn’t yet fully active, it works wonderfully by simply mixing all ingredients except b.p., b.s., salt…and letting it rest in a bowl for a few hours. Then stir in the other ingredients and bake. It seemed to allow the various fruits I’ve used to macerate and the resulting flavors/aromas are intoxicating.
Love it! Excellent banana flavor. I left out the walnuts, next time I might cut down just a hair on the sugar. Otherwise, change nothing!
my mom made it wen i was visitig her so i just had to gt the recipe for it
I started making this bread a year ago, and it is a hit with family and friends. I substituted the 4 bananas with 2 boxes of Jello instant banana pudding; it’s incredibly moist and there’s a great banana taste! Instead of shortening, I used 1 cup of oil. I utilized this same recipe for pumpkin bread, applesauce bread, and cranberry bread; makes great gifts!!
I love this recipe! My family got tired of the cinnamon friendship bread, so I was looking for other ways to use it. This worked GREAT!!
I just made this recipe and it turned out ok except it has a faint taste of beer.. matter of fact before I used the starter it smelled kinda like beer. I know that when I got the starter from my friend it had a sweet milky smell and the bread she had baked and given to me tasted sweet and milky. I was going to make the chocolate version tonight but Im afraid to now.