Easy Ackee Bread
Quick and easy recipe for ackee bread.
Ingredients
- 1 can Ackee (approximately 2 cups soft parboiled ackee)
- 1/2 cup Brown sugar not packed
- 1/2 cup Granulated sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1/3 cup (113g) Oil
- 2 cups (258g) All-purpose Flour
- 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 tsp Salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and spray or grease and lightly flour a 9"x5"x3" loaf pan
- Sift flour, baking powder and soda into a large mixing bowl, add salt and whisk. Set aside
- In a medium bowl, mash the ackee (a whisk or a rubber spatula does this well, alternately, you could pass the ackee through a sieve or blend it). Add the sugars then the eggs followed by the oil mixing till well combined.
- Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture and pour in the ackee mix.
- Gently mix till well combined. Pour into prepared loaf pan and smooth top with a spatula.
- Bake for 30 minutes then reduce temperature to 325F and bake another 10 to 15 minutes till done - a skewer inserted in the loaf will come out clean and/or it will spring back when lightly touched.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Turn out of pan and let cool completely on a wire rack.
- Slice and enjoy!
Notes
You can use all brown or all granulated sugar. This will have an impact on the the flavor and the color of the bread. If all white sugar is used it will be more yellow and all brown with result in a darker color with deep caramel/molasses notes.