Banana Rice Bread (Liberia)

Submitted by Engrossed

"From: “South of the Sahara: Traditional Cooking from the Lands of West Africa” by Elizabeth A. Jackson."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 8-12

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups rice flour or 1 1/2 cups cream of rice
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 cup currants or 1/4 cup raisins
• 2 eggs
• 3⁄4 cup milk
• 2 ripe bananas, mashed
• 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil

directions

1. Preheat oven to 325. Grease a 9-inch loaf or round cake pan.
2. Mix rice flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and raisins in a large bowl.
3. Whisk together eggs, milk, mashed bananas, and oil in a separate bowl.
4. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients, mixing batter thoroughly.
5. Pour batter into prepared pan.
6. Bake for 50 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
7. Cool in pan 5 minutes, before turning out on rack to finish cooling.