Quick Coconut Pistachio Banana Bread

When you have an overripe banana situation at home, this recipe is the perfect project to turn to! This Quick Coconut Pistachio Banana Bread brings three star ingredients together. It doesn’t get better than the flavors of banana, the tropical zing of coconut and the crunch of pistachios!

This weekend has been a whirlwind of everything we weren’t supposed to do. We had big plans which all started with cleaning up that one room in the house that’s still full of boxes. Yes we moved into this house three months ago and no we still haven’t finished unpacking. Clearly, planning and executing isn’t our strong suite and instead of staring at that pile of boxes, I figured it’s just better to bake some coconut pistachio banana bread instead.

Does that make sense at all? Not too much I guess. But the way I look at it, I was probably going to spend this Sunday evening fretting about how much there is still to do. Instead I’m sitting here having one last slice of coconut pistachio banana bread and talking to you guys!

I’m seriously digging everything coconut these days and just bought yet another pack of coconut flakes because they seem to get over so fast. I do not want to blame it on my favorite coconut crusted chicken tenders but they are seriously a big culprit, and I can’t deny it. We make them pretty much every week now, and inhale them before they are out of the oven. We are a pretty greedy lot.

So when I was left with half a cup worth of coconut flakes, I couldn’t see them lying around and they weren’t enough for the chicken tenders, so this banana bread happened. Plus ripe bananas are always a situation in this house. I have no idea why I always buy a bunch and then conveniently forget about them till they are too brown to eat. But it helps, because banana bread is our favorite!

This coconut pistachio banana bread hits all the right notes. It’s warm and fuzzy and has that intense banana flavor that you can die for I can die for. I think adding coconut oil to this bread is genius. It makes the bread even more moist and buttery, and in my opinion, coconut and banana are star flavors together!

The pistachios were purely accidental because we had run out of any other nuts in the house but no complaints there. They add the perfect crunch and bite to this bread.

You’ll notice that we don’t have too many baked recipes on this blog, because I know most of you are always rushing by, but this bread is so quick and easy, that you can put this together in the evening and you’ll have the perfect loaf to wake up to.

Have I convinced you yet?

More Yummy Bread To Try This Weekend:

• Lemon Zucchini Bread
• Brown Butter Banana Bread
• Multigrain Bread
• French Bread Pizza Toasts