Mama Sato's Mango Bread
A golden, fragrant quick bread made with fresh mango, studded with nuts and raisins. Think banana bread, but brighter. The kind of thing that makes your kitchen smell warm and cozy. Mama Sato's original calls for raisins, and if you are a person who enjoys finding raisins in baked goods, you will love it exactly as written. If you are like me and believe that a dark chunk in a cookie or bread product should always be chocolate, swap them out. No judgment. Well, a little judgment. But I'm sharing the recipe anyway, friend. Mama Sato would want you to have it.
Servings 2 medium loaves
Ingredients
- 2 C flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 C sugar
- 1/4 C vegetable oil
- 1/4 C melted oleo I used unsalted butter
- 1/4 C chopped nuts
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 C sliced mango Fresh mango is ideal. Well-drained canned mango works fine and is what we have in Nebraska in February. I have used both. Neither has produced a bad loaf.
- 3 eggs
- 1 C raisins chocolate chips are also yummy
Instructions
- Line the pans with wax or parchment paper to avoid sticking.
- Sift dry ingredients.
- Make a well in the center, add other ingredients into the well.
- Mix thoroughly.
- Pour into greased loaf pan and let stand 20 minutes before baking.
- Bake at 350º for 1 hour for medium loaves and 45 min for smaller loaves.
- Makes 2 medium or 3 small loaves. Can be stored in the fridge for a week or wrap and freeze the loaves for up to two months.
Notes
A few notes from experience:
The bread is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the top is deep golden. It will smell incredible before it looks done. Do not trust the smell. Check with the toothpick.
It also improves overnight. Day two is genuinely better than day one, which is annoying to learn when you've already eaten half the loaf.
One more thing. In the book, this recipe travels across an ocean, survives a TSA standoff, and arrives in Nebraska frozen but intact. It then becomes the thing everyone at the shower talks about for the rest of the afternoon. That's the kind of food worth making.
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