Thursday, 16 August 2012

Banana muffin in home made paper cup - featuring sultanas/raisins and tea!! | Kukskitchen



At work in Sheffield Teaching Hospital( I trained there), there was a private company selling yummy muffins in a rustic paper cup. I was waiting for a good muffin recipe to experiment my own paper cups.

It was the final day of a leadership course, when all of us had to choose a topic and do a presentation on it. My fellow attendees selected topics like 'obesity in kids', 'my research' etc.  I proudly chose to give a talk on Kerala, my state in India and topped it up with a recipe handout and snapshot of keralan chicken biriyani. Feeling very special myself (you know the feeling when you feel so good about urself, what ever else the others think? Yes, I had that moment), there comes another girl with a recipe to banana cake her nan used to bake. I knew it would have been yummy and she knew it too. We were divided up in to groups and she was in another group so I didnot get the recipe.

I came home and started searching for a yummy banana cake recipe. Low and behold I saw a recipe by the one and only comfort-food-queen Nigella Lawson. I knew this was it. I made a few alterations to suit my taste and cooked it for my dear friend Pravija and her daughter Riya. Here is the recipe I used.


























A few things before we start:
  • If the batter is thick add up to half a cup of milk to make it thin. The batter should have a pouring consisitency for the muffins to be soft and moist. Buttermilk would be good too. 
  • The recipe warrants yellow cavendish bananas, the usual ones you get in supermarket, but if you can't get it 'robusta' green bananas are great too.
  • For the paper cup, I cut a square piece of baking sheet and moulded it into the trough in the muffin tray. They sure do add a great personal touch to ur muffins.
  • Try and use pure vanilla bean paste if you can. They add a special flavour to the muffins.
  • Nigellas original recipe asked for whisky in the first step. I substituted it for tea. Nigellas original recipe used walnuts in this muffin. I am not a big fan of them, hence avoided it.
  • While mashing banana, a few chunks are ok, they add texture to ur muffin.
  • Never use a hard hand while mixing flour or you will end up with a banana flavoured stone.


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Banana muffin

Makes 12
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Ingredients



1. Very ripe bananas - 300g excluding peels
2. Sultanas/ raisins - 100g
   Water - 100ml
   Tea bag - 1
3- Plain flour - 175g
    Baking powder - 2 tsp
    Bicarbonate of soda - 1/2 tsp
   Salt - 1/2 tsp
4- Butter - 125g
    Brown/ caster sugar - 150g
    Eggs - 2
    Vanilla extract/paste - 1 tsp


Method

  • Preheat oven to 170 degree 
  • Add boiling hot water to tea bag as u would for tea. Give it a squeeze and get the bag out. Add sultanas to it and leave it for 5-10mts
  • Combine / seive flour, salt and raising agents together in a bowl.
  • Melt your butter. In a second bowl add the melted butter to sugar and mix well. Now add the eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition.
  • Mash your bananas. Add the bananas to ur second bowl together with drained sultanas and vanilla extract. 
  • Add the flour mix to the banana mix a little at a time, gently folding the mixture in.
  • Pour this mixture in to a buttered and paper lined muffin tray and bake for 20 mts. A cake with the same mixture would take 1 hr.


Adapted from:Nigella Lawson

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2 comments:

  1. wow.. thanks for linking this recipe to my event. Expecting more recipes from you;-))

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  2. Thanks for linking this yummy recipe to my event.

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