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Homemade Banana Flour and Banana Flour Apple Tea Cake

11/4/2013

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I am completely obsessed with cooking banana's at the moment and recently made my first batch of homemade banana flour. Since than, I have made another two batches and can't seem to get enough of it. Although I don't mind coconut flour, I find the taste very strong and it is quite dry. I have also recently introduced nut flours back into my diet but still have to avoid almond meal and be careful not to over do them. So when it comes to grain free cooking, banana flour is a dream come true. To make banana flour you will need to source some green cooking banana's or plantains as these are a starchier variety taste more like potato than banana when cooked. The flavour is very mild and much like spelt flour and you can use it as regular flour but just use 3/4 of a cup to every 1 cup of wheat flour.

Quite a few Asian and Vietnamese stores stock them or you can pick them up at farmers markets in most cities. Some stores have a huge mark up on them so be careful and if you have a few stockists in your area, shop around for the best price. I picked mine up at the PCYC markets in Toowoomba for $2.50/kg and I've heard they're a little cheaper at the Brisbane Markets. 
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Homemade Banana Flour 
Green cooking banana's or plantains (3 kg of banana's makes about 1 kg of flour)

Peel banana's.  (to assist in the peeling, you can boil or steam your unpeeled banana's on the stove to loosen the skin or you can use a knife to cut off the skin). Cut banana's into thin slices and place on baking trays and dry in a low oven for 2-3 hours. You can also dry them in a dehydrator or sun dry them in the sun. The banana's will be quite light in colour when they're ready. Place banana in a high speed blender or thermomix and grind into a fine flour. If you find your banana's are still sticky and aren't grinding,  remove from blender, spread on tray and leave to dry for longer. Mill again, sift and store in a dry, airtight container.
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Homemade Banana Flour Apple Tea Cake
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Homemade Banana Flour Apple Tea Cake
1 1/3 cup of homemade banana flour
3/4 cup Rapadura Sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 tablespoon cinnamon
1 cup of macadamia, light olive or any other neutral flavoured oil
3 eggs
1 cup milk
2 Large pink lady apples cut into thin slices

Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celcius and grease a round cake tin with oil or butter. Sift dry ingredients into a bowl. Whisk oil,eggs and milk together and pour into the dry ingredients. Mix well until combined. Pour half of the mixture into the cake tin, top with apple slices and pour the other half of the mixture over the top. Spread mixture evenly over the apple until smooth and all apples are covered. Cook in the oven for 45 minutes, turn of heat and leave in the oven for another 5-10 minutes. Remove from oven and leave to cool for 20 minutes before turning onto a rack.
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5 Comments
Lisa
11/4/2013 07:05:19 pm

This is such a find for me. Wow Maryina cottage kitchen, you have done it again. I can't wait to try this. Thank you.

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Nanna Chel link
11/5/2013 02:25:23 pm

I haven't been to the PCYC markets for years but would be interested in checking out those green bananas. I don't think I have ever seen them in our local fruit shops. Do all the fruit stalls at the PCYC have them or just one?

I did email you a while back but haven't received a reply so I am not sure if you received it. I just wanted to ask permission to put one of your recipes on my blog when I get around to making something and would link to your website of course.

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Veronica
2/22/2015 01:48:40 pm

A magnificent idea.

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Kate link
7/28/2015 04:12:24 pm

How green were your green bananas? The ones I used were very green, so hard and definitely NOT nice to eat straight after peeling. Is this the right level of ripe? Thanks

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Shirley strong
4/1/2017 09:40:50 pm

Can you use green eating bananas or do you have to use plantain bananas. The reason I am asking is because the recent bad weather has brought down our bananas which has a lot of green bananas which will be thrown away if I cannot use them for flour.

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