Somehow it happened that we decided to eat bananas raw. But in countries where these fruits are much cheaper than potatoes, they are often used for various dishes. With bananas cook souffle, casseroles. They are fried, not to mention the fact that wonderful and varied desserts are made with them. In this article we will tell how to caramelize bananas. This process is not very complicated, a novice culinary specialist will also cope with it. All the action does not take fifteen minutes. There are several recipes for caramelized bananas. We will begin, perhaps, with the simplest.
Dessert for a romantic dinner
Knowledgeable people say that for this event you need to serve gourmet, but light dishes. Hearty cakes cause drowsiness. And the format of a romantic dinner provides that after it participants will have another pastime. On the table by candlelight, fried, caramelized bananas look great. This light delicacy can serve as a subtle hint. We cut the banana lengthwise into two halves. It should be warned: the fruit must choose a solid, slightly unripe. We also need raisins - one or two tablespoons. If the berries are too dry, they should pour hot water ahead of time. First, melt in a pan two or three tablespoons of butter - not a spread and, God forbid, not margarine. Do not wait until it starts to spray. Add a spoonful of sugar to the liquid oil. Stir a little with a wooden spatula at low heat. Immerse in this caramel peeled and cut along the halves of a banana, as well as raisins. Fry. Turn the banana over to the other side. Add two tablespoons of dark rum. It can be replaced with cognac. If we add sweet liquor as alcohol, sugar should be sprinkled less. Wait until the liquid is caramelized completely. We put bananas on plates. Pour them with raisin sauce.
Caramelized Bananas: Cake Recipe
These fruits may not be an independent dessert, but be used in a layer or decoration of holiday cakes. Here is the banana cake recipe . We bake a biscuit, cut it into two cakes. From twenty-five grams of butter and 100 g of vanilla sugar, cook in a pan of caramel. We cut six peeled bananas into large pieces (we divide one fruit into four to five parts). Dip them in boiling caramel. Fry on both sides. Take out on a plate. We use the remaining caramel for the preparation of cottage cheese and yogurt cream. To do this, dissolve a spoonful of gelatin in one hundred milliliters of milk. In a bowl of a mixer we combine a pound of cottage cheese (or cream cheese), four hundred grams of natural yogurt and banana caramel. Pour milk with gelatin. Beat until cream. Putting the cake together. At the bottom of the detachable form, put the cling film and the lower crust. Fill with half the cream. We put caramelized bananas for the cake. The sides of the product can be decorated with fresh fruit, cut into circles. Fill with the remaining cream and cover with the top cake.
Banana topping
Now think about decorating the cake. There is nothing better than pouring a tender biscuit topping. How to caramelize bananas, we already know. How to make topping? Dissolve a spoonful of gelatin in thirty grams of water. Peel a large banana and mash with a fork. Mix the fruit puree with thirty grams of sugar. Put in a pan and simmer until a beautiful dark beige shade. Put the mashed potatoes in the blender bowl. Add the dissolved gelatin. Beat everything until a homogeneous mass is obtained. With this topping, with a spoon or brush, pour the cake - the top and sides of the product. Put in the refrigerator for four hours to freeze the cream. Pull out the edges of the cling film from the mold and serve.
Bananas in the dough
Now let's try to complicate the recipe. Do you like apples in pastry? By this principle, you can make bananas. From fifty grams of very chilled butter, two and a half tablespoons of flour and sugar (it should take 1 tbsp. L.) Knead shortbread dough. Grind it into crumbs. To this mass, add two soup spoons of coconut. We heat the oven to two hundred degrees. We put a culinary ring in a pan without a handle . Pour half a spoonful of sugar into the bottom. Two bananas are cut into small pieces and pushed into a ring. Top with toast crumbs. We fry for two minutes until sugar turns into caramel. Then we send the pan to the oven and bake for twenty minutes. Shift upside down on a plate and remove the ring.
Gourmet Ice Cream Dessert
The recipe for caramelized bananas with ice cream is very similar to the base. But there are differences. We clean and cut three bananas with oblique circles at least a centimeter thick. Pour four tablespoons of granulated sugar and a generous pinch of cinnamon into the pan. Top up with 2 tbsp. l water. Wait until the sugar is completely dissolved. Add twenty-five grams of butter to this syrup. When it melts, spread the bananas. Fry them on both sides for about three minutes. Bananas should become soft, but still not lose their shape. We pour half a glass of strong distillate - better than dark rum, but cognac is also suitable. Set it on fire right away. When the flame goes out by itself, we continue to fry the bananas for another couple of minutes to evaporate the excess liquid. We shift the dessert into portioned bowls and serve with a ball of cream ice cream.
Caramelized bananas in batter
First, beat two squirrels to a lush foam. Add two tablespoons of sugar. Beat a little more. Peel two bananas and cut into large pieces. Roll them in flour, then in protein batter and again in flour. We fry a small amount of refined sunflower oil in a pan. Fry our bananas in batter. Put it on paper towels to stack excess fat. In a saucepan of half a glass of water and three soup spoons of sugar, boil the syrup. It should become an amber color. You can diversify its taste with vanilla, cinnamon. Pour the bananas in the batter with this dressing . This dessert can also be served with a ball of ice cream.
Bananas in mulled wine
The recipe recommends choosing ripe soft fruits this time. First we make mulled wine. Pour a glass of sweet wine (cahors, butcher) into a saucepan. If you make dessert for children, alcohol can be replaced with clear juice. Pour two hundred and fifty grams of brown sugar. We put cloves, cinnamon and other spices with which it is customary to season mulled wine. Place the saucepan over medium heat. As soon as the wine begins to boil, reduce the flame to a minimum. We give all the spices to fully open and convey their aroma to the wine. Remove the saucepan from the heat and filter its contents through a tea infuser. We put a cast-iron frying pan on a very small fire. Dissolve in it 4 tablespoons of butter. Four bananas are peeled and cut into round washers with a thickness of at least a centimeter. Fry in oil until golden brown. Then pour the mulled wine. Bring over low heat (otherwise the alcohol ingredient will evaporate) to a boil. Cook the caramelized bananas for about half an hour. Serve warm. Such a dessert can be decorated with whipped cream and grated lemon peel.
Quite basic recipe
We need four ripe, but tight, strong bananas. We preheat the oven to one hundred and eighty degrees. We install the lattice, and on it we place the unpeeled bananas. Bake until the skin of the fruit acquires a hint of eggplant. This will take about twenty minutes or half an hour. During this time, we make caramel from brown sugar with a little water. Separately, whip the cream. We take out the baked bananas. Using a knife, make two parallel cuts on the peel and partially expose the flesh. Pour it with liquid caramel. On the reverse side we press on the fruit to expose the pulp even more. When the caramelized bananas have cooled, we decorate them with whipped cream.
Pancakes
Tired of the uniform filling? Give a touch of exotic to a familiar dish. Let's bake delicate thin pancakes. Put butter in a pan, sprinkle cane brown sugar. When caramel is formed, fry several pieces of peeled and cut into small pieces of bananas in it. Put the fruits on a plate. Pour in caramel a little more than half a glass of fat cream. Add also a little thickener for sour cream. Stir and boil the mixture for two minutes, until it thickens. Put the caramelized bananas in a creamy cream. Stir. Let's start the pancakes. Serve them with whipped cream.