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Cookbook of the Month Recipe – Mango Bread
Filed under Cookbook of the Month, Muffins/Quick BreadsNov 19
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!
Recipe Rating: 4.25 out of 5
Mango Bread
from The Food of Paradisemakes 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 cubesPreheat 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.
 
16 Responses to “Cookbook of the Month Recipe – Mango Bread”
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Vivienne said on November 19th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
how interesting that mango bread is common in hawaii! i guess its prob a fruit thats available all year found there like our bananas!
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megan @ whatmegansmaking said on November 19th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Mango bread sounds so interesting! I love mangos so I bet I would love this bread
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Kristy said on November 19th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Interesting combo…I bet it is great!
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Georgia (The Comfort of Cooking) said on November 19th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
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!
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Holly said on November 19th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
I love banana bread and this just sounds soo divine!! Love mango:)
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Joanne said on November 19th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
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!
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Karen said on November 19th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
That sounds fantastic!
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Kim said on November 19th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
I love that kind of bread! With the mangos, it's so original, I like it…
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Lisa said on November 19th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
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.
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teresa said on November 19th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
what a cool bread, i adore mangoes, so i would happily gobble this up!
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Rosa's Yummy Yums said on November 19th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
A wonderfully exotic bread!
Cheers,
Rosa
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Tasha said on November 20th, 2010 at 12:13 am
I've honestly never really been a big mango eater, yet this bread sounds really interesting and something to try!
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Valerie said on November 20th, 2010 at 5:33 am
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.
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Monet said on November 20th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
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!
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Holly@Life as a Lofthouse said on November 21st, 2010 at 8:33 pm
This looks soo good! And so different!! LOVE IT!
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Sophia said on December 6th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
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!
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