How to Prepare Plantain Bread (13 Easy Steps)

Plantain Bread is an easy and delicious bread that you can make any time and it is very fast to prepare. It’s another quick bread recipe that you can enjoy with your cup of tea or coffee, juice, and drink at all. Plantain Bread is very similar to Banana Bread, they have the same taste, in fact, most people confuse plantain with banana.

The only difference between making plantain bread is that you are using Plantain instead of Banana and some sour cream or plain yogurt. Otherwise, they taste sweet and smell nice the same way. Where are the bread lovers and plantain lovers, this post is for you. Many people want to explore their culinary skills, they want to try new things, food combination. bread can be used to eat a lot of food, people now combine various things to make bread. Like banana bread, people decided to try plantain bread. Let us explore this together.

Plantain Bread Ingredients

The quantities of ingredients you use for your bread explains the loaf of your plantain bread. If you want a very big bread then you need more ingredients.

• 1 cup (150g) plain (all purpose) flour
• 2 over ripe plantains
• 125g (1 stick) butter
• 3 eggs
• ⅛ cup brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon yeast
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 tin (160 mls, ½ cup) evaporated milk
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ cup roasted groundnuts (peanuts)

Tools You’ll Need to Bake the Plantain Bread

The following are the minimal tools you’ll need to bake the plantain bread:

• An oven with a top and down heating capability is best. Or a big pot. See the video below.
• Measuring cups or kitchen scale
• Sieve or Sifter
• Egg Whisk.
• Bowls
• Spatulas
• Bread pan

Notes on the Plantain Bread Ingredients

You must take these into consideration before making your plantain bread.

1. Use overripe plantains but not rotten ones. See what I mean in the video below.
2. The eggs should be at room temperature. Which means that before you make the plantain bread, bring the eggs out of the fridge long before you will make the cake. If it is winter where you live, bring them out the night before.
3. Baking soda is not the same as baking powder. You can buy baking soda where they sell baking powder.

These are the instructions for making Plantain Bread

You have to follow these instructions to get the right taste of your plantain bread.

1. Pour the evaporated milk into a cup and warm it up a little bit, about 30 seconds in the microwave oven.
2. Add the yeast to the milk, stir and set the mixture aside.
3. Peel and mash the plantains either with a fork or with a potato masher till as smooth as possible. Set aside.
4. Whisk the eggs and set them aside.
5. Melt the butter.
6. In a dry bowl, mix the flour, cinnamon, brown sugar, salt, and baking soda.
7. Add the milk and yeast mixture, the melted butter, and the mashed plantains and mix.
8. Add half of the roasted groundnuts (peanuts), crushing it by hand as you add. Mix very well.
9. Pour into a bread pan and sprinkle the remaining groundnuts on top.
10. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 deg Celsius (350F) for 40 minutes. You can also use a pot to bake this if you don’t have an oven. See the video below for a demo.
11. The plantain bread is done when a wooden skewer inserted into the bread comes out clean. The bread also springs back when you press it down.
12. Place it on a rack for about 5 minutes then bring it out of the pan.
13. Lay on the rack till it has cooled down to a comfortable temperature.