This easy ackee bread recipe comes together quickly with minimal cleanup required.
Nothing beats simple recipes you can pull together quickly. This recipe is essentially 5 ingredients not counting salt and leavening agents.
It was my last full day in Jamaica after filming Nyammings. The plan was to spend the afternoon in Little Ochi, St. Elizabeth over jerk fish, beer and laughs. So for breakfast, something light would do. Enter this recipe, much like banana bread, you simply replace the bananas with ackee instead. This recipe can be made using either canned or fresh ackees. If using fresh, the ackees must be boiled so that they are very soft. Butter ackee is perfect for this recipe.
What does ackee bread taste like?
A little mind bending since it looks like cornbread. But the taste is nutty. My taste testers agreed, somewhat like peanut butter. We enjoyed it with guava jam and coffee.
If you look closely at the shot above you’ll see little yellow bits of ackee. For this recipe you can either puree the ackee so it’s silky smooth before adding it. Or as I’ve done here mix it with the sugar and mash it by hand. The pieces of ackee are very small so it isn’t noticeable texturally.
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Curiously similar: check out Ackee Brown Butter Bread with Walnuts & this Whole Grain Ackee Bread recipe.
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Easy 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
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Preheat oven to 350F and spray or grease and lightly flour a 9″x5″x3″ loaf pan
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Sift flour, baking powder and soda into a large mixing bowl, add salt and whisk. Set aside
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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.
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Make a well in the centre of the flour mixture and pour in the ackee mix.
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Gently mix till well combined. Pour into prepared loaf pan and smooth top with a spatula.
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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.
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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.
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Slice and enjoy!
Recipe 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.