How to turn brown bananas into the best vegan bread of the bunch – recipe | Waste not

Use over-ripe fruit to flesh out this loaf with chocolate, spelt and miso – truly top banana After nine years, I can’t believe I’ve never written a recipe for banana bread for this column, so it had better be a good one, especially after I picked up a huge bunch of brown bananas at the corner shop for next to nothing the other day.

This is a vegan bread made with olive oil instead of butter and with the mashed bananas acting as a binder in place of eggs; I’ve also added some miso to boost the umami…