Delicious Mango Bread Recipe by Star Chef Allen of the South Beach Mango Festival

I love any type of bread with fruit in it, my favorite being banana bread. That’s why when I was asked if I would be interested in sharing this recipe with you, I had to say YES! I can’t wait to give this mango bread recipe a try. I hope you like it and give it a try also.

Mango Bread Recipe by Star Chef Allen

Serves: 10 slices

Ingredients

¼ Cup Butter

¾ Cup Sugar

2 Medium Very Ripe mangoes pureed

1 Large Egg, slightly beaten

1 Teaspoon Pure Vanilla extract

2 Tablespoons Lime juice

1 ½ Cups All purpose flour

1 ½ Teaspoon Baking powder

½ Teaspoon Baking soda

½ teaspoon Ground cinnamon

1 Cup Chopped walnuts

To prepare the batter:

In a large mixing bowl cream the butter and sugar. Add the mango, egg, vanilla, and lime juice. In a separate large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon. Add the mango mixture to the flour mixture stirring until the dry ingredients are just moistened.
Stir in the walnuts.

To bake the mango bread:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 9x5x3 inch non stick pan with non stick cooking spray. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan. Bake for 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center, comes out clean. Cool in the pan 10 minutes before removing from the loaf pan. Allow to cook for 1 hour on a rack before serving.

About the 1st Annual South Beach Mango Festival

Miami Beach, FL – Introducing the first ever of its kind, South Beach Mango Festival, being unveiled on Sunday, August 5, 2018, from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. at South Beach’s beautiful, white sandy beach in Lummus Park, adjacent to Ocean Drive. With the mango craze hitting an all-time high, ranging from mango shampoo to mango beer, South Florida wants to commemorate and celebrate the importance and peak of its famed fruit. The event is aimed at tropical fruit lovers and culinary enthusiasts, as well as the domestic and international visitors who flock to South Beach. The event will also benefit a vital non-profit philanthropic organization, Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

With South Florida beginning an upwards shift towards introducing healthy festivals and expos into the mix, millennials, families, locals and visitors will have the opportunity to continue to educate themselves on healthy eating options and alternatives, using mango in their recipes, with activities including a farmer’s market offering more than 40 varieties of juicy, sweet, locally farmed mangoes; mango tastings; cooking classes for kids and adults, featuring the golden fruit; a children’s play area; and an entertainment area with live music and dancing; top chef demos, and a memorable mango-mixology competition. A sampling of creative farm-to-table culinary creations, showcasing the luscious mango from a variety of South Florida’s top fine-dining destinations and neighborhood cafes, served amid cooling ocean breezes, will make this a not-to-be-missed, uniquely South Florida experience.

About Chef Allen Susser

Chef Allen Susser is one of this country’s leading chefs. His Miami landmark restaurant Chef Allen’s was established in 1986 and is recognized as having been one of the finest dining establishments in the USA. Chef Allen’s owns the word QUALITY. Allen Susser through his restaurant has changed the way South Florida dines with his trend setting approach. In fact as a nationally recognized culinary leader and humanitarian he has had a tremendous effect on how we all eat today. Chef Allen’s cross – cultural tropical cuisine that started new world cuisine more that 30 years ago has been constantly evolving. Allen Susser leverages his experience and knowledge along with his food business network for imaginative Chef Allen’s consulting to cut new ground in cuisine, innovation, service, style and profit for his clients.