Teff Banana Nut Bread Recipe

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Teff flour is a finely ground whole grain flour popular in Ethiopian cooking. Our moist and delicious classic banana bread recipe made with teff is a unique tasting easy to make African recipe.

Prep time: 15 min

Cook time: 45

Total time: 1 hour

Ingredients

2 cups teff flour

2 very ripe bananas

½ cup unsalted walnuts

½ cup of chopped dates

2 large eggs

1 cup of white sugar

1 stick unsalted butter

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon of baking soda

½ teaspoon of baking powder

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

½ teaspoon ground cloves

Directions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter and sugar, mix in eggs and bananas and add all dry ingredients to wet, including nuts and fruits, and mix well. Pour into 2 buttered and floured bread loaf pans and bake for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Teff grows mainly in the African countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea and is slowly becoming popular in the USA?

Teff grass in Africa and the United States

Teff is a staple crop in Eritrea and Ethiopia where it is a native annual grass species but is not widely known around the world. The very small seeds are cooked or fermented and have good nutritional content.

Teff grass is a warm-season annual grass traditionally used as a grain and forages in Ethiopia it is adapted to the high-altitude tropics growing well at temperatures 50 to 85° but requires an 11 to 13 hours to flower. Teff grass was introduced to the United States in the late 50s early 60s but still largely remains unknown.

In the USA, teff grass is getting a lot of popularity as a late and for some very good reasons. Farmers in Oklahoma, Texas and New England were trying to look for alternative ways to make up for a fodder grazing and hay shortage.

Teff grass is a warm-season grass with a very fine stem super high-quality hey type product. Horse people love teff grass because of his extreme palatability. Because of its fine stem, Teff grass needs to have at least 65 to 70 degrees soil to plant.

The seed size is very tiny so you cannot plant very deep or it's not going to grow. It grows extremely well in the heat has exceptional drought tolerance. Teff is a rapid drying grass, unlike sorghum.

Teff grass grows so well in optimal conditions, in 23 days the grass can grow 20 inches tall. To see if Teff grass is going to be major forage crop in the USA, well it depends on how the market responds.

Farmers in the United States may be new to planting Teff however in other parts of the world it has been around for thousands of years. Teff is believed to have originated in Ethiopia between 4000 and 1000 BC; the seeds were discovered in a pyramid and 3359 BC.

Since then the seeds have been widely cultivated and is used not only in Ethiopia but in neighboring African countries as well. Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, and Djibouti use Teff grass to make flour. Teff flour can be used in a number of things such as cereal, bread, cookies, and other snacks.

Today I hope you learned how to make Banan Nut Teff Bread with the African Gourmet. You can use water in your recipe but you can use flat beer, specifically dark beer for a nice rich flavor.

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