Ingredients

• All purpose flour / Maida – 2 cups
• Sugar – 1 cup
• Milk – 1/2 cup
• Vegetable/ corn / canola/ olive  oil – 1/2 cup
• Over riped bananas – 2 large
• Eggs – 2
• Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
• Baking powder – 1 1/4 tsp
• Baking soda – 1/4 tsp
• Salt – 1/4 tsp
• Walnuts/ pecans chopped – 1/2 cup

Method

• Sieve together all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mom would always sieve 3 times.
• Mash the bananas in a bowl and keep aside.
• Preheat oven at 180 degree centigrade or 350 degree Fahrenheit.
• Liquidize eggs and sugar along with vanilla essence with the help of a whisk in a large bowl. Eggs should be at room temperature.
• Add bananas and oil and  mix in the same bowl.
• Now add half of the dry ingredients and milk and fold in. Now add the other half and fold in again.
• Add  walnut or pecans and mix slowly.
• Grease a bread tin with butter and dust with all purpose flour so that the bread comes off easily once baked.
• Pour the batter into the bread tin.
• Place in the oven (middle rack) and bake for about 60 to 75 minutes depending on the oven until a tooth pick comes out clean.
• After about 30 minutes of baking, cover the top of the tin with aluminum foil so that the bread doesn’t brown too much on top.
• Remove from oven and place it on a wire rack and allow to cool before cutting.