Liberian Rice Bread
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Loading... - Seidu Musah
- 18 Aug 2022
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Today, we are baking a very special traditional Liberian pastry and dessert. I grew up on this delicious rice bread and now baking it for my family as well. My kids enjoyed this treat and the aroma in the house from the bananas, ginger and nutmeg flavors coming from the hot oven is mouth-watering. If you have read my “about me” section at the beginning of this blog, then you will remember that I learnt to cook and bake everything from my wonderful mother, Ma Lucretia, so enjoy!
Liberian Rice Bread is a local favorite, a rice-based banana bread with a moist, dense crumb that tastes of the ripe fruit and fresh ginger. Many recipes for this bread take a shortcut by using either rice flour or rice cereal. But if you do not have a rice flour or rice cereal, you can do the following to prepare the rice for baking: soaked whole rice, then finely ground in a mortar and pestle or faster with a food processor so that the bread bakes up properly, it’s important that the rice is ground to a very fine, almost powdery texture.
Then the rice powder/cereal is blended with mashed bananas, ginger, nutmeg, eggs, milk, sugar and oil for a quick and easy snack. It is delicious straight out of the oven, and it stays nice and moist for up to a week. Liberian Rice Bread is often served with tea or coffee, and we enjoyed it as the starter course for our Liberian meals or celebrations. Read More...
