Brown butter banana walnut bread takes classic banana bread deeper with nutty browned butter and toasted walnuts while keeping the crumb soft and moist.
Use very ripe bananas and stop mixing as soon as the flour disappears; overmixing can turn a tender loaf dense.
What You’ll Need Before You Start
- 9×5-inch loaf pan
- Small saucepan
- Two mixing bowls
- Whisk
- Rubber spatula
- Wire cooling rack
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Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 3 very ripe bananas, mashed
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- ¼ cup plain Greek yogurt or sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup chopped walnuts, toasted
How to Make It
- Brown the butter. Melt butter over medium heat, stirring often, until the milk solids turn amber and smell nutty, about 5–7 minutes. Immediately pour into a bowl and cool 10 minutes.
- Preheat and prepare. Heat oven to 350°F and grease or line a 9×5-inch loaf pan.
- Mix the wet ingredients. Whisk mashed bananas, brown sugar, eggs, yogurt, vanilla, and cooled brown butter until smooth.
- Mix the dry ingredients. Whisk flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt separately.
- Combine gently. Fold dry ingredients into wet just until no streaks of flour remain.
- Add walnuts. Fold in most of the toasted walnuts, reserving a few for the top.
- Bake. Spread batter in the pan, top with reserved walnuts, and bake 50–60 minutes until a tester comes out with moist crumbs but no raw batter.
- Cool before slicing. Rest 15 minutes in the pan, then transfer to a rack and cool at least 30 minutes so the crumb sets cleanly.
Recipe tip: Brown butter goes from amber to burned quickly; remove it from the hot saucepan as soon as the milk solids turn deep golden.
Food safety: Do not taste raw batter because it contains raw flour and eggs. Cool and store the baked loaf properly before wrapping.
From Recipe to Content
Turn the Recipe Into a Simple Food Story
- Open on a thick slice showing walnuts and moist crumb.
- Show butter foaming and turning amber.
- Capture ripe bananas being mashed.
- Film walnuts folding into the thick batter.
- End with the cooled loaf being sliced.
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