I am sure your mouth started to water as you heard the name ‘Caramelized banana’. This is one of the quickest fruit dessert that I can think of at the moment. And not to say, one of the easiest and yummiest too. And trust me, its ingredients are used in regular cooking in one way or the other. What are we waiting for…? Now, you can invite more friends to your home and pamper them with fruit desserts like Caramelized banana.
The key to this dish is a dash of cinnamon along with caramelizing sugar, which brings out a unique aroma. Finally, the sesame seeds’ garnish, adds to the crunchiness and taste.
Now imagine getting a call one fine evening and hearing, “Dear, are you guys at home? We are only a mile away… and we just thought of dropping by at your place…”. Your heart beats faster thinking of what to serve. To all those finding themselves in this awkward situation more often than not, this is specially for you.
Don’t forget to drop me a note if this recipe has saved an evening for you!!!
Total time: 10 minutes
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Servings: 1
Ingredients:
Ripe banana: 1 (medium)
Cinnamon powder: 1 tsp.
Sugar powder: 1 tbsp.
Butter: 1 tbsp.
Sesame seeds / Ellu / Til : 1 tbsp.
Method:
- Clean, peel and cut the bananas into thick coin shaped pieces and keep aside
- Mix sugar and cinnamon together and keep aside
- Heat the pan and grease it liberally with butter
- Roast the bananas in medium flame for some time by flipping the sides
- Once it starts browning, carefully sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon mixture and flip the sides and keep frying till the sugar caramelizes, turns banana brown
Caramelized banana is ready.
Now, this can be enhanced further before serving in several ways. Below are the few options :
Option 1 : Caramelized Banana with Chocolate ganache
- Transfer the caramelized banana to a serving bowl, top it with chocolate ganache/ chocolate sauce and few nuts
Option 2 : Crunchy Caramelized Banana
- Sprinkle the sesame seeds over the caramelized banana and fry it for few more seconds
- Take it off heat and transfer to a plate
Option 3 : Caramelized Banana Sandwich
- Sandwich the crunchy caramelized banana between bread toast and serve it
- You may also use it as toppings for ice-cream / Waffles / Pancakes
The options are endless, the more creative you can get, the better it is.
Caramelized banana stories :
Whenever my husband purchases bananas, he purchases ripe ones, and that too in dozens… and what to do, not all can be eaten and so, a few tend to over ripe and at times, if someone is sick at home, the bananas are just left to rot as doctors suggest not to eat them when having running nose and cold.
Besides, we have guests coming home on a short notice. Caramelized banana is one technique that I have adopted to make use of ripe bananas, if there is nothing else but ripe bananas in stock. This makes for a perfect snack for your guests and yourself, for the evening…
Nice.. Jamoon in different version out of banana