- Recipes
- Fruit & Nut Tea Loaf
Ingredients
- 1 ripe banana, mashed
- 1 lemon, grated zest & juice
- 75g butter
- 100g soft brown sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 250g self raising flour
- 50g dried cherries or berrries, roughly chopped
- 50g dried apricots, roughly chopped
- 75g pecans, roughly chopped
Method
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas4. Grease and base line a 900g loaf tin. Mash the banana and then stir in the lemon juice and zest.
Step 2
Over a gentle heat melt the butter and sugar and then add it to the banana mixture and mix.
Step 3
Beat the eggs and then stir them into the banana mixture followed by the flour. Roughly chop the cherries, apricots and pecans, then fold into the mixture.
Step 4
Spoon the mixture into the prepared loaf tin and then bake for 55 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Step 5
Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out onto a wire cooling rack. Slice to serve. Can be spread with butter if desired.
Step 6
Slice to serve. Can be spread with butter if desired.
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