It is not necessary to spend a lot of money in order to pamper the family with sweets. Wonderful desserts can even be made from quite familiar and inexpensive products. In particular, few can imagine how tasty baked bananas are. You can cook them in a thousand different ways - and each of them is successful. For many children, such desserts become a favorite treat. At the same time, bananas in the oven, unlike fried ones, do not lose their beneficial qualities and do not acquire harmful ones.
Banana in foil
You can bake your favorite fruits in a variety of ways. One of the simplest is using foil. Bananas are peeled, cut lengthwise, watered with fresh lemon juice and sprinkled with a mixture of sugar, almond powder and cinnamon. The resulting halves are neatly wrapped in foil, laid out on the oven sheet and put in the oven for ten minutes. Such baked bananas are most delicious when warm. So you need to eat them right away, barely getting out of the foil.
Caramelized Banana Casserole
This dish is interesting in that an elastic, tasteful crust forms on the fruit. Bananas for him are again peeled and cut along. A small piece of butter - about a half of a matchbox - is melted, a spoonful of one and a half lemon natural juice is poured into it. Banana halves are spread with this mixture and sprinkled with ground hazelnuts, combined with an equal amount of sugar. Sugar is desirable to take with large crystals. The oven is heated to the maximum; in the presence of top heating it also turns on. The form with the bananas placed on it is put in the oven and left in it until the sugar is caramelized.
Stuffed dessert
This time we will cook baked bananas directly in the skin, so they need to be thoroughly washed and dried. A longitudinal incision is made along the peel to the middle of the depth of the pulp. A little honey is poured into the formed pocket and coarsely chopped walnuts are laid. On top of the filling is sprinkled with cinnamon. A banana is wrapped in foil and placed in a furnace heated to 200 Celsius for a quarter of an hour.
Both breakfast and dessert for tea
Cottage cheese casseroles are very loved by our people and exist in the greatest recipe variety. If you combine a fermented milk product with a banana, you will get a delicious dish that both children and adults willingly have breakfast or dinner. And as an afternoon snack, dessert will be very appropriate. Preparing a cottage cheese casserole with a banana in the oven is quite simple. A pound of cottage cheese is placed in the container (for low-fat children, buy low fat), a 100-gram slice of good butter and half a glass of semolina and sugar. All components are mixed; Naturally, this can be done faster in a blender or mixer, but kneading with a fork and a spoon will not take much time. Two peeled bananas are cut into small cubes and distributed according to the dough - this time with a spoon, so that the fruits do not turn into mashed potatoes. The form is laid out with parchment, smeared with oil (preferably creamy), the mass is distributed over it and placed in the oven for three quarters of an hour. The casserole is tasty in both warm and already cooled form.
Elegant dessert
And here is another wonderful banana casserole. You need more fruits - about five pieces - and you need to cut them larger. Banana slices are sprayed with lime juice (this way they will not darken, they will better maintain elasticity and acquire a spicy flavor). For the base, a bundle of cottage cheese, half a glass of yogurt, three tablespoons of thick honey and an egg are combined. Bananas are laid out on the smeared bottom of the mold and poured with dough. To bake a casserole, depending on its thickness, will be from 20 minutes to half an hour.
Bananas in the dough
A very original recipe, the result of which will delight all family members. If you are not against “communicating” with the dough, such baked bananas can be cooked at least every day, especially if you buy puff pastry ready-made. Four bananas will take you half a kilo of the base. They need to be cleaned, but not cut, and greased with a mixture of thick honey (two full spoons) and the zest of one orange. Thawed dough is cut with long narrow ribbons, not wider than one centimeter. Each banana tightly wraps with these stripes, from the crown to the heel. There should be no gaps between the turns; at least two layers are made, and preferably three. The resulting bundles are greased with soft oil, freely, at sufficiently large intervals, laid out on a baking sheet and sent to the oven for 40-45 minutes. Ready-made baked bananas are sprinkled with powdered sugar and given to eat.