Since I was already bewitched by the mango, I began concocting my own sort of black magic... keeping tropical (almost voodoo?), I added a banana, molasses, fresh grated ginger and nutmeg... then went for the jugular. Three secret ingredients made their way into my (ceramic) cauldron, one a fairly common ingredient in my pantry, and two others that were slightly off the radar. For a depth of both colour and flavour, just a hint of my favourite rich cocoa powder was sifted in first. Then, I reached into my stash of 25 flours and withdrew my favourite powder - mesquite flour. The intoxicating aroma reached my nose before the bag was even opened, and once the addition was stirred into the other dry ingred
As I made my first careful slices into the moist, soft loaf, I knew that something incredible had taken place. This was more than the sum of it's parts, and it was a piece of magic that I could hold onto - until the hungry masses caught wind of it's existence.
Wicked Fruit Quickbread
Serves 12
1 tbsp ground flaxseed
3 tbsp hot water
2/3 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup canola oil
1 tbsp molasses
2 tsp fresh grated ginger
1 tbsp vanilla
1 tbsp Amarula liqueur
1 medium banana, mashed
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1 cup flour
1/4 cup whole wheat flour
2 tbsp mesquite flour (sub whole wheat if not using)
1 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 large, verging-on-overripe mango, peeled and diced
- Preheat oven to 300F, grease a loaf pan.
- Combine the flaxseed and water, let stand 5 minutes.
- In a large bowl, beat sugar, oil, molasses, ginger, vanilla, Amarula and banana until smooth.
- Stir in flaxseed mixture and yogurt.
- In another bowl, whisk together flours, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, baking powder and nutmeg.
- Add the flours to the wet ingredients, stirring gently to just incorporate.
- Fold in the mango pieces.
- Bake 60-70 minutes, until tests done.
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 169.2
Total Fat: 5.4 g
Cholesterol: 0.7 mg
Sodium: 10.3 mg
Total Carbs: 28.7 g
Dietary Fiber: 1.9 g
Protein: 2.1 g
Great bread recipe! Wish I could have a slice.
ReplyDeleteWow that's some wonderfully vivid writing you have going on!! Love it, made me really really want some, it looks like an amazing recipe, and I might try to pick up a mango today!
ReplyDeleteWow you created quite a bread & quite a story there!
ReplyDeleteThat bread looks great...and I am not a huge mango fan...but yum!
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