What's better than banana bread? Fresh mango bread. I used the champagne of mangoes: Ataulfo mangoes. As well, I ground up ginger and cinnamon from Montreal's Philippe de Vienne’s line of épices de cru (small-production "estate" spices). The difference between using freshly dried ginger and cinnamon and the one that's expired on your shelf is incredible. To top it off, I used farm fresh eggs from a local farmer.
RecipeMakes 12 servings (I halved the recipe.)
¾ cup flavorless oil, such as canola or safflower
2½ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1½ teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup (packed) light brown sugar
2 cups diced mango (from 1 large peeled and pitted mango)
¾ cup moist, plum golden raisins (I used dark raisins.)
Grated zest of ½ lime (I used lemon.)
You can find the recipe for Fresh Mango Bread in the book Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan or here. To see how the rest of the TWD group fared with this week's recipe, click here and then click on each blogger! Thanks to Kelly of Baking with the Boys who chose the recipe for this week.
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Tasting NotesI have flagged this recipe as a keeper. Many recipes from this cookbook have been keepers, but this one incurred a lime green stickie note to identify it as one to make again soon. In fact, it took too long to photograph and complaints were bellowed from the other room that it was getting cold and would be better enjoyed warm from the oven rather than cooling under the lens of my camera. Oh, the bane of food blogging.
Recipe for Next Week (May 26)
Beth of Supplicious selected Chipster-Topped Brownies on pages 94 and 95.
53 comments:
Mango and farm fresh eggs make me swoon! This bread sounds out of this world!
What a great idea, using fresh mango for a delicious bread :)
Fresh mangos make all the difference in the world! Love this recipe!
Well that looks just amazing. We didn't love it as much as your clan. Ah well.
Yes, I would have moaned if I wasn't given one of these as soon as they come out of the oven! :) These are too cute and yummy! And those eggs? Incredible.
Your bread looks exquisite. You did a wonderful job with this one.
Love the idea of adding mango to bread - never would have thought about it before!
Looks like a winner to me! I always enjoy your photos, the bread looks perfect!
mmmm...fresh eggs, ginger, and cinnamon? No wonder it got a lime green sticky! Your pics look great--worth a bit of a wait for the food!
Glad you liked it. I just purchased some fresh eggs from a backyard chicken owner - love the things.
I would love to live close enough to farmer and get my eggs fresh! WOW! Lucky woman! ...and I love those pictures of the egg add on the road!
Beautiful bread too! ...as usual, nothing you do turns out bad! Lucky family, you have...
Haha, I love the comments about impatient testers. I know my family tries to be patient but the men just can't understand why you would delay eating perfectly good food for the sake of a photo! Your bread sounds amazing with all those ingredients- yum!
I love mango! yum yum with the addition of ginger and cinnamon. Happens to me too, my hubs would be there complaining while I take my pictures.
This may be my favorite Dorie recipe EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your bread looks SO good!
i'm not crazy about mr mango, but then again, i haven't had it in bread form and spiced with cinnamon. perhaps that'll do the trick. :)
Mmmmm, this looks so delicious! I definitely want to make it. :)
Beautiful pictures. Glad everyone loved it.
I agree with you - this is definitely on the repeat list, and the sooner the better!
Did any remain for day 2? It was really good day 2, too.
Jennifer
Great photos, they were worth the wait, and I have to make this again so I can try it - gave it away as gifts.
Love your pictures. I loved this bread too. It was fantastic.
Fresh dried ginger - mmm!
Well done.
I can see why you flagged it as a keeper! It looks amazing! I LOVE mango!
That sounds incredible with the spices and fresh mango. And, does that sign say $3/dozen? That's great for farm fresh eggs!
Looks terrific!
Thanks for visiting my blog. I love mangos..will definately try these
Oh, I'll bet it was just insanely good with all those fresh and perfect ingredients! Especially those estate spices, wow!
I'm not a huge fan of mangoes, but this bread sounds worthy of an exception!
Great pics! Your diced mango looks heavenly!
I couldn't agree more - this recipe rocked!! Your bread looks fantastic!
Oh, Shari, you really went all out!! This bread looks fabulous. I love that you used the freshest ingredients possible; I can only imagine what an incredible flavor those ingredients imparted. I can't wait to try out this recipe!
i'm with you, way better than banana bread!
This looks SO good! My hubby introduced me to mangos and I adore them now! LOVELY pics!
I used canned mango and the bread was good, but I imagine that fresh would have been a lot better
Well, I'm still a little partial to my banana bread/muffins, but I did really like this. Yours looks de-lish!
WOW mango bread? that sounds so good! must try this!
aah now here's something i've not tried before. The eggs are so gorgeously fresh, wants to make me go to the farm n get some myself.
your family's reaction to the photo shoot sounds quite like my husband's! your bread looks and sounds wonderful!
Hilarious about the complaining from the other room.
Mine do that too.
This looks so yummy! Who wold have thought mangoes would be so great in a bread? Not me!
You're telling me! I don't think I would have been able to wait either. Mango's definitely my #1 absolute most favorite fruit! :)
Your pictures are amazing! And the bread looks so delicious. I have never made bread...this one sounds like a good one to start with :)
That looks wonderful, Shari!
I love fresh eggs! Way to go with this recipe. Wonderfully fresh.
How lovely that you used fresh eggs. I try to do that as often as possible. I'm glad you loved this bread!
My oh my how delicious that looks! I can understand why they didn't want to wait for you to take pics... Nothing like fresh ingredients! Hope you wouldn't mind having Foodista readers directed to your blog. Just add your choice of widget and you're all set!
Love the farm fresh eggs! Glad this was such a hit!
I just saw Ataulfo mangoes at Costco! I'll have to buy some soon because I love mangoes and haven't tried that variety yet. Your mango muffins look beautiful! I guess it'd be torture to make your family wait to taste it until the following day! =)
Yes, fresh spices can't be beat. Farm fresh eggs are pretty good too! Your bread looks delicious.
Looks so good and moist. When I saw the heading for this post in my google reader I got so excited.
I feel as if you could even puree a bit of it and make the cake super mangoe sticky icky.
We agree...a definite keeper. Yours looks so good with all those little bits of mango sticking out. Yum! Too bad ours is all gone as this makes me want another go at it!
Oh wow, those spices and farm fresh eggs? No wonder it's a keeper!
It was a great loaf. Definitely a keeper. Love the chunks of mango. Beautiful
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