Easy Instant Pot Banana Bread - The Soul Food Pot Southern Recipes (2024)

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I made delicious homemade Instant Pot banana bread, and you can easily make this 45-minute recipe, too!

On a scale of 1-5, this recipe is a level 2 for EASY to do!

A no bake, no oven, no need to heat up the house recipe made with real bananas.

I made this quick and simple recipe at home as part of the Instant Pot challenge with Save the Children charity.

Magical Meals In Minutes – Instant Pot Banana Bread

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Through this challenge, we can help families in need, all while staying at home and flattening the curve— and enjoying warm, delicious homemade banana bread. Yum!

Instant Pot Banana Bread

Thanks to my Instant Pot, this recipe was as quick and easy as mixing a few ingredients in a bowl, pouring the mixture into a cake pan and placing the pan in the pot!

Instant Pot banana bread

Ingredients

• 2 ripe bananas
• ½ cup of sour cream
• ½ cup of butter
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1 cup of granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder (or 1 teaspoon of lemon juice as a substitute)
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1 ½cups of all-purpose flour
• 1 ½cups of water
• ½ cup of nuts (optional)

Kitchen tools

• Instant Pot (I’m cooking with the Instant Pot Duo.)
• Instant Pot baking sling
• Instant Pot Official 7″ Bundt pan
• medium-size mixing bowl
• large mixing bowl

Shop my kitchenware!

Instant Pot Duo | Instant Pot Official 7″ Bundt pan | Target stainless steel mixing bowls | Courtly check medium glass canister | Courtly Check large glass canister | Pyrex measuring glass | Courtly Check glass cutting board | heart-shaped measuring spoons | Target spatula | similar plastic ramekin ice cream cone dishes | Instant Pot baking sling |

Instructions

1. Mix the baking soda and sour cream in amedium-size bowl and set aside.
2. Spray the Bundt pan with non-stick spray.
3. Add the sugar and butter to thelarge mixing bowl.
4. Mix until the sugar and butter are well combined.
5. Add the two eggs one by one while mixing in the large mixing bowl.
6. Add the baking powder, mashed bananas and vanilla extract to the medium bowl.
7. Stir all ingredients in the mediummixing bowl until combined (*optional- add in nuts).
8. Fold contents of the medium bowl into the large bowl.
9. Add the all-purpose flour to the large mixing bowl.
10. Stir until combined.
11. Pour the batter into the Bundt pan.
12. Cover the pan loosely with foil.
13. Add the water to the Instant Pot stainless steel inner pot.
14. Place the Bundt pan on the inner pot trivet rack.
15. Using the Instant Pot baking sling, slowly and carefully lower the Bundt pan into the inner pot. (The baking sling will remain in the pot while pressure cooking.)
16. Close the Instant Pot lid (make sure the valve is up in the position for sealing) and pressure cook on high for 45 minutes.
17. When the cooking time is finished, allow a natural pressure release for at least 30 minutes.
18. To open the Instant Pot lid, move the valve to ‘venting’ and manually release any remaining pressure, if applicable.
19. Remove the Bundt pan carefully from the inner pot using the baking sling handles to lift the pan out.
20. Let the banana bread cool for approximately 10 minutes.
21. Slice, serve warm and enjoy!

Pro tips:

• To fit inside the Instant Pot, the Bundt pan for this recipe should be a smaller pan, max 7.5″ in diameter.
• I only had a traditional size bundt pan on hand, so I created a substitute by using a deep, circular cake pan with a ceramic ramekin in the center to create the hole.
• True to my whimsical nature, my ramekin is a ceramic ice cream cone-shaped dish. You can buy similar plastic ones HERE!

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