Banana Bread With Strawberry Compote - cooking recipe

Ingredients

FOR THE BREAD
4 1/2 ounces butter, softened, PLUS extra for greasing
1/2 cup superfine sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 large ripe bananas
2 cups self-rising flour, less 1 tablespoon
1 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
FOR THE COMPOTE
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 oranges, juice of
1 grated orange, rind of
1 cinnamon stick
2 1/2 cups fresh strawberries, thickly sliced
FOR THE GARNISH
mascarpone or plain yogurt
confectioners' sugar, sifted for dusting

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0. Grease a 9X4X11 in loaf pan and place a piece of parchment paper on the bottom of the pan.
Beat together the sugars and butter until light and fluffy. Add in the eggs, one at a time, incorporating well after each addition then add the vanilla extract. Peel and mash bananas. Stir into the butter mixture. Add the flour, nutmeg cinnamon until just combined. Do not over-beat.
Pour mixture into pan and bake for 1 hour, 15 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the bread comes out clean. Remove from the oven and let stand for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
Made the compote while bread is baking by mixing the first four of the compote ingredients together in a medium sized pan and bringing to a boil Add fruit and return to a boil. Remove from heat, pour into a heatproof bowl, and let cool.
Serve slices of banana bread with a spoonful of mascarpone or yogurt and spoon over either warm or cold compote. Fish with a light dusting of confectioners' sugar.