When I got this month’s Cookbook of the Month home from the library and started looking through it, I decided that I’d do a recipe from each chapter, since there are 4 chapters. Well, this chapter was so hard to choose from! There were seriously so many recipes in this chapter that sounded so good. Which may have you asking why I went with such a simple recipe. Well, in the heading of this recipe, it says that mango bread is to Hawaiians what banana bread is to a lot of us. And I started imaging how nice it would be to have a bunch of ripe mangoes laying around all the time…
I was so excited to try this recipe, until I started making it. As I cut into my mango, I realized it wasn’t very ripe. In fact, it was barely even sweet at all. And I only bought one mango, and the recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups of mango chunks, and I wasn’t sure the 1 mango would do it. But I persevered. I added a little bit of extra sugar to make up for the mangoes not being very sweet, and I was just short the 1 1/2 cups, but I figured it should still work out. And it did!! And as much as I liked this bread, I can only imagine how good it would be with a nice, juicy, ripe mango.
This recipe is a little heavy on the spices. I like nutmeg and cloves, but the nutmeg and cloves in this are quite strong. I would probably cut back a bit next time, but that’s all I would change!
Mango Bread
from The Food of Paradise
makes 1 loaf
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 egg, beaten
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cups ripe half-inch mango cubes
Preheat oven to 350F. Grease and flour a 9×5 inch loaf pan.
Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and spices in a large bowl. Stir in egg, oil and milk. Fold in the mango cubes. Pour the batter into the pan.
Bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. (You might have to put a piece of foil over the top if the bread is getting too dark before it is done cooking through.) Cool for a few minutes, remove from the pan, and allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
Sophia says
This is a really interesting recipe. I've never even heard of mango bread before, but in all honesty, every fruit bread is pretty delicious! It looks awesome by the way!
Holly@Life as a Lofthouse says
This looks soo good! And so different!! LOVE IT!
Monet says
My sister and I ADORE mango bread. She's coming in town for Thanksgiving, so I'm going to keep my eyes open for a juicy mango. Thank you for sharing this with us. I hope you are having a relaxing Saturday!
Valerie says
I've never tried mango bread. I did eat a fresh (really fresh) mango in Ecuador years ago. Almost doesn't taste like the same fruit to me as how they taste after we get them here.
Tasha says
I've honestly never really been a big mango eater, yet this bread sounds really interesting and something to try!
Rosa's Yummy Yums says
A wonderfully exotic bread!
Cheers,
Rosa
teresa says
what a cool bread, i adore mangoes, so i would happily gobble this up!
Lisa says
In Hawaii there's mango season when everyone who has a mango tree gives them away to everyone they know. You end up with bags of the stuff and mango bread is a quick and delicious way to use them all up.
Kim says
I love that kind of bread! With the mangos, it's so original, I like it…
Karen says
That sounds fantastic!
Joanne says
One of my roommates lived in mexico for awhile and whenever she speaks about being able to buy mangoes for five cents a piece my eyes glaze over. I love the sound of this bread!
Holly says
I love banana bread and this just sounds soo divine!! Love mango:)
Georgia (The Comfort of Cooking) says
You're right – with some fresh mango, or maybe some mango chutney, this bread would be even more amazing than I bet it is plain! It looks wonderful, Deborah. Thanks for this inventive and delicious looking recipe!
Kristy says
Interesting combo…I bet it is great!
megan @ whatmegansmaking says
Mango bread sounds so interesting! I love mangos so I bet I would love this bread 🙂
Vivienne says
how interesting that mango bread is common in hawaii! i guess its prob a fruit thats available all year found there like our bananas!