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Exploring Ingredient Substitutions

Fran Costigan - Exploring Ingredient Substitutions

This event was on Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 1:00 pm Pacific, 4:00 pm Eastern

One of the most frequent questions we get at Rouxbe is “what can I swap for X ingredient?” For example, How do arrowroot, corn, and tapioca compare? Are all these starches are a 1:1 … Read More.

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Question:

Any ideas on a recipe for banana bread without using butter, oil and added sugars. Also, can fresh made nut butters be included?

— MARK RAPPAPORT

Answer:

When you're making a banana bread or any kind of banana dessert, you want to use a very ripe banana because when it's really ripe, it's going to be much sweeter and you want to at least limit the, the additional sweetener. Past a a point though I find that bananas can be really ripe and then go too ripe and then they don't taste good to me. So be aware of that. Um, bananas have a lot of moisture, so you probably can limit the oil. Uh, you probably gonna need some added sweetener, maybe date paste or maple syrup if that's allowable for you. And I don't know about nut butters. I mean I don't have a recipe for banana bread where I'm using nut butters, but you know, you can thin out a nut butter. I actually love using, I like nut butters and I also like tahini. Unless sesames are an allergen for you, that's something that can replace some fat and some and it does some binding. So you can, you can try that. I believe there are recipes like, you know, for banana bread and banana muffins in forks over knives.
Fran Costigan

Fran Costigan

Director of Vegan Pastry

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