Banana Orange Walnut Bread

What you need

All purpose flour: 1 cup

Wheat flour: ½ cup

Sugar: ¾ cup

Egg: 1 no

Orange: 2 no (orange zest: 1 teaspoon and orange juice about 1/3 cup + half of 1/3 cup)

Banana: 3 no

Baking soda: ½ teaspoon

Baking powder: ¼ teaspoon

Vanilla: 1 teaspoon

Salt: ¼ teaspoon

Walnut: 1/3 cup (Lightly toasted and crushed)

Cardamom: 3 pods

canola oil : 1/3 cup

How I made

Preheat the oven to 350 ⁰ Fahrenheit.

Lightly grease the bottom and sides of an 8 1/2 by 4 1/2 by 2 1/2-inch loaf pan with oil. Line the bottom with parchment paper, and then flour the sides of pan.

Set aside orange zest and juice from two orange. Mash bananas using a fork or potato masher and keep aside.

In a large bowl sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, crushed cardamom and salt. Keep aside.

In a medium bowl beat egg with sugar and add orange juice, orange zest , oil and vanilla extract and mix everything incorporated well.

Gradually add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix everything well.

Finally fold in mashed banana and add crushed walnut and fold once again gently.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smoothen the tops with a spatula. . Bake for 55 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.

Cool the bread in the pan for 5 minutes and remove it and cool in the wire rack for another 1 hour.

Cut into slices and enjoy.