Wheat Free/Gluten Free Banana Bread

Have to give a shout out to George Williams at InterFM in Tokyo for the inspiration for this one. I was watching him make his Banana "Bread" on ustream.tv the other night. To be perfectly honest his is more of a Banana Cake that would have been so good but I am wheat intolerant so I had to make mine up on the fly. Anyway, you can follow George on Twitter @kungfugeorge or watch his show at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kungfugeorge if you can understand Japanese.

Now mine IS a Banana Bread. It goes into a baking pan like a bread and it comes out of the oven like a bread. The only difference is that there is no yeast and you can't knead the dough because of the Bananas.

If you're vegan try this with a milk and egg substitute and let me know how it went. I would also recommend eating this one when it is still warm with some margarine spread.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

2 or 3 Bananas

1 3/4 cup wheat free self raising flour

1/4 cup wheat free plain flour

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 tsp Almond meal

1 tsp Hazelnut meal

2 eggs lightly beaten

1/2 cup milk

2 tsp Cinnamon

50g of Margarine

1 Vanilla Pod

WHAT YOU'LL DO WITH IT

Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees and used either margarine or canola spray to grease the pan.

In a large bowl sift the flour and cinnamon then add the sugar, almond meal and hazelnut meal and stir them together. Make a well in the flour mix and set to one side.

Open the vanilla pod and scrap out the inside into a saucepan. Drop the empty pod in and then add the butter and let it melt slowly over a low heat. Stir it now and then to make sure the vanilla seeds are mixed in.

Mash the bananas with a fork into an empty bowl. Add the eggs and milk and the melted butter then mix together. Make sure you remove the Vanilla pod as it will not be a pleasant experience bitting into it later.

Pour the banana mixture into the flour bowl then mix together with a wooden spoon until the two are combined then put it into the baking dish and bake for 45 to 50 min.