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French Toast with Banana & Walnuts@keelingsfruits

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Ingredients:

  • 4 fresh bananas, sliced
  • l 50g fresh walnuts, roughly chopped
  • l Maple syrup, to serve (optional)

For the French toast:

  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 100ml milk
  • 1 tbsp caster sugar
  • 4 slices of thick white bread, cut in half diagonally
  • 25g butter

Method:

Mix the eggs, milk and sugar in a shallow dish and beat well. Add the bread, then turn in the liquid until well soaked.

Heat half the butter in a large non-stick frying pan, then add 2 triangles of bread and fry on each side until golden brown. Then repeat the process with the next 2 pieces.

Put two pieces of French toast on each plate, cover with fresh banana slices, drizzle with maple syrup and then sprinkle with chopped walnuts to serve.

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Odlums Banana & Sultana Tea Bread

CategoryBreads

Cook Time1 hour

What you need:

  • 225g/8oz Odlums Self Raising Flour
  • ½ teaspoon Goodall’s Mixed Spice
  • 125g/4oz Butter or Margarine
  • 50g/2oz Shamrock Mixed Peel
  • 50g/2oz Shamrock Sultanas
  • 50g/2oz Shamrock Chopped Walnuts (optional)
  • 450g/1lb Bananas
  • 1 tablespoon Rowse Honey (runny)
  • 2 Eggs, beaten

How to:

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Lightly grease a 900g/2lb loaf tin.
  2. Place the flour and spice into a mixing bowl, add the butter or margarine and rub in until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
  3. Stir in the mixed peel, sultanas and walnuts, if desired.
  4. Mash the bananas with the honey, stir gently into the mixture with the beaten eggs. Mix well.
  5. Transfer to prepared tin and bake for about 1 hour until well risen and golden brown.
  6. Remove from oven and allow to cool in tin for 10 minutes. Turn onto wire tray to cool completely.
  7. When cold wrap in greaseproof paper and tin foil.

http://www.odlums.ie/recipes/banana-tea-bread/

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Glenisk Strawberry Oat Smoothie

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Ingredients,5 Count

Nutrition,174 Calories

Total Time’5 Mins

Serves,2 Servings

Ingredients

40g porridge oats
150g Glenisk Greek 0% Fat Vanilla Yogurt
1 banana
80g strawberries
1 handful of ice cubes

From Glenisk

Vanilla 0% Fat Greek Protein Yogurt Big Pot

Nutritional Information (per serving)

  • Calories,174kcal
  • Fat’1.4g
  • Saturates,0.2g
  • Carbs,26.2g
  • Sugar,11.1g
  • Protein,10.7g
  • Salt,<0.01g
  • Fibre,3.9g
Strawberry Oat Smoothie

Method

  1. Combine the porridge oats, yogurt, banana, strawberries and ice cubes together in a blender at high speed.
  2. Pour smoothie into 2 cups and serve.
  3. http://glenisk.com/recipes
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Odlums Banoffi / Banoffee Pie

CategoryBBQ & Picnics

Cook Time20 mins

What you need:

Shortbread

  • 225g/8oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
  • 200g/7oz Butter or Margarine, softened
  • 50g/2oz Icing Sugar
  • 1 heaped teaspoon Cornflour

Toffee

  • 1 tin Condensed Milk, simmered for 3 hours and cooled

Topping

  • 3 Bananas, sliced
  • 1 carton Cream, whipped
  • Grated chocolate or crushed Cadbury’s Flake

How to:

Shortbread

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F/180°C/Gas 4. Grease and line a loose bottomed 23cm / 9″ cake tin.
  2. Sieve the flour, icing sugar and cornflour into a bowl. Rub in the butter/margarine until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
  3. Press into the prepared tin and bake in preheated oven for approx 20 minutes until golden in colour. Leave to cool in the tin.

Toffee

  1. Place the unopened tin of condensed milk in a saucepan covered with sufficient water to cover top of tin.
  2. Bring to the boil and then reduce to a low simmer for 3 hours. Make sure the level of the water does not fall below the tin of condensed milk during simmering.
  3. Remove tin from saucepan and allow to cool. This can be done a few days in advance.

Topping

  1. Spread toffee over the cold shortbread. Gently remove from the cake tin and place on a serving plate. Arrange the sliced bananas on top of the toffee, cover with the whipped cream and decorate with grated or flaked chocolate.

http://www.odlums.ie/recipes/banoffi/