Dan Lepard's Banana Bread

Dan's recipes are very much welcomed into the family lately, here is another good recipe.
I cannot believe my husband had 4 slices in one go!  The rest of us had 2 slices each.   Needless to say, it was all gone in the same day.



Reason, it was actually not too sweet, quite a light cake and just too good to stop eating.
 You should try or you will regret not..:)

Recipe: The Guardian ( Dan Lepard)
Ingredients
300g ripe bananas
15ml lemon juice
125g shelled walnuts, chopped
75g unsalted butter
175g dark soft brown sugar ( I used dark muscovado sugar)
50ml walnut oil
1 tsp mixed spice
3 medium eggs
325g wholemeal bread flour
1 and 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Demerara / natural sugar crystals ( I used sesame seeds)

Method
1.  Line the base and sides of a large , deep, 19cm loaf tin with non-stick paper, non stick paper on a large tin loaf.  Pre-heat oven to 180C (160C fan assisted)/ 350F/gas mark 4.

2.  Mash bananas with lemon juice until smooth.  Stir in walnuts and set aside.

3.  In a saucepan, melt butter gently, transfer to a bowl and mix well with sugar, oil and spice.  Add eggs one at a time, beating it well each until all evenly combined.

4.  Sift wholemeal bread flour and soda into a bowl ( bran is used as well here).  Beat half sifted flour into egg mixture, fold in the bananas and walnut mixture.  Now fold in the remaining flour gently.

5.  Pour into the lined pan.  Smooth the top, sprinkle some demerara sugar over the top.

6.  Bake for 60-70 minutes,  insert a skewer and see that it comes out clean.