How to Cook Mango Bread

Yields: 1 loaf

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 40 mins

Ingredients needed to make Mango Bread:

• 1 big ripe mango, peeled, stoned and roughly chopped
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• ¼ cup plain yogurt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ cup fine semolina
• Pinch of salt
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• 2 tbsp walnuts, chopped
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• ½ tsp ground cardamom

Cooking instructions for Mango Bread:

• Toss the mango chunks into a blender and pulse them into a thick pulp; set aside.
• Stir the baking powder as well as soda and salt into the flour and sift the mixture into a medium bowl.
• Stir the semolina into the dry mixture until well combined and set aside.
• Place the yogurt in a separate bowl and pour in the mango pulp.
• Drizzle the oil into it, followed by a sprinkling of sugar plus ground cardamom and whisk them together until the sugar melts and blends thoroughly.
• Tip this mixture into the semolina-flour mixture and stir them together until they blend into a uniform batter, free of lumps.
• Fold in the chopped nuts until they are distributed evenly throughout the batter and set aside.
• Warm up your oven to 190 degrees F and brush few drops of oil within a loaf pan to grease.
• Dust some flour into it and tap out any excess.
• Tip the batter into the prepared pan and bake in the hot oven for 40 minutes or until it turns golden brown in colour and is baked through.
• Remove from the oven and set aside on a wire rack for 15 minutes or until cool enough to handle.
• Remove the bread from the pan and place it back onto the wire rack to cool completely.
• Carve out thick slices and serve.

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