Fried bananas are an original dish for true gourmets. Although in Africa, Indonesia and many countries of Latin America, these exotic fruits have long been prepared in this way. Using various additional ingredients and cooking methods, they make excellent desserts, amazing delicacies or ordinary side dishes.

Caramel Fried Bananas

There are several recipes with which you can cook bananas fried in caramel.

For one of them, the following ingredients will be required:

  • 2 ripe bananas;
  • 30 grams of butter;
  • 125 grams of sugar;
  • 60 grams of water;
  • 1 tablespoon of sesame seeds.

The whole process can be divided into several stages:

  1. First you need to cook the caramel itself. To do this, pour sugar into the pan, pour it with water and put a piece of butter. It is advisable to take the dishes with a thick bottom.
  2. Put the pan on the stove and set the average flame size under it. Boil the contents for about 6 minutes.
  3. At this time, peel the bananas. Cut the remaining pulp with a knife into small pieces.
  4. Place the workpiece in a boiling mass and cook for no more than one minute. During processing, they must be constantly turned over so that the pieces are covered with caramel on all sides.
  5. Put the finished fried bananas on a plate and pour the remaining caramel, and then lightly sprinkle with sesame seeds.

It turns out amazing dessert that will surely please all the sweet tooth.

Cooking in batter

No less delicious are also fried bananas in batter. That is how these exotic fruits are most often prepared in India. The method is not complicated, but rather interesting.

To work, you must have:

  • 3 bananas;
  • 75 grams of sugar;
  • 1 egg
  • 60 grams of wheat flour;
  • oil (preferably coconut, but also vegetable);
  • some vanilla, ground star anise and coconut milk (to taste).

From the dishes you will need: a deep bowl and a frying pan.

How to fry bananas in batter:

  1. The first thing to do is to clean the fruits. Then they should be cut into two parts, first across, and then along. Each banana produces 4 pieces.
  2. For batter, beat the eggs with sugar (50 grams). Then, gradually introducing the flour, bring the mass to the consistency of fat sour cream. For flavor add a little star anise and vanilla.
  3. Put the pan on the fire. Heat oil in it.
  4. Dip each blank first in a batter, and then lay in a pan. Fry on both sides until golden brown.

Ready-made bananas are best served while they are still warm.

Unusual dessert with ice cream

Fans of custom solutions should like the option when hot bananas after heat treatment are served along with ice cream. This recipe is interesting for its contrasts. On the one hand, these are hot bananas fried in sweet and sour sauce, and on the other, sweet cold ice cream.

To make such a dessert, you will need:

  • 1 lemon;
  • 50 grams of sugar;
  • 2 bananas;
  • 50 milliliters of cognac;
  • 100 grams of ice cream (preferably ice cream);
  • 30 grams of grated chocolate (for decoration).

Cooking sequence:

  1. Heat the pan over low heat.
  2. Pour sugar on it, and then pour it with lemon juice and cognac. Heat for two minutes.
  3. During this time, prepare bananas (as in the previous recipe).
  4. Put the billets in a pan and fry for 3 minutes on each side. If the mass begins to thicken quickly, you can add a little more lemon juice and cognac.
  5. Put the fried bananas on a plate. Pour over the rest of the sauce.
  6. Next put a pair of balls of ice cream.

Dessert is prepared very quickly and can become a lifesaver for any housewife in case guests unexpectedly rush into the house.

Chocolate Fried Bananas

The fantasies of a good cook, as a rule, have no limits.

Ready-fried bananas before serving, for example, can be poured with chocolate. If you eat such a dish for breakfast, then a good mood and a charge of energy for the coming day will be guaranteed.

For 1 serving of dessert, you will need only four main components:

  • 2 bananas;
  • vegetable oil;
  • a handful of breadcrumbs;
  • chocolate (preferably dark).

How to make this dessert:

  1. Peel both bananas.
  2. Bread them in breadcrumbs.
  3. Place in a pan with boiling oil and fry until golden brown.
  4. Put finished products on a plate.
  5. Melt the chocolate in a water bath, and then pour plenty of bananas on it.

Children from such an original dish will be delighted.

In the test in the pan

By analogy with batter, fried bananas can be cooked in dough. True, in this case, the process will be more complicated.

But first you need to prepare the following products for work:

  • bananas
  • 250 milliliters of milk;
  • 4 grams of yeast;
  • 1 egg + 3 yolks;
  • 0.5 cups of drinking water;
  • 15 grams of sugar;
  • 10 grams of butter and vegetable oil;
  • 45 grams of flour;
  • a little vanillin.

Dessert must be prepared in stages:

  1. First you need to make the dough. For this, yeast must first be diluted in milk. Then add sugar, flour, butter and mix. After that, put the dough in a warm place for 1 hour.
  2. Next, you need to prepare the cream. Grind the egg with yolks with sugar and mix with flour. Boil the milk separately, adding vanilla and a small piece of butter to it. Combine both mixtures, and then warm the resulting mass for two minutes over low heat, avoiding boiling.
  3. Peel bananas.
  4. Dip each of them whole first into flour, then into cream, and then into the dough.
  5. Fry in a pan in the presence of a small amount of oil.

The dessert is not only tasty, but also quite satisfying.

How to deep-fry

Frying bananas in a pan is not always convenient.If you make large blanks, you will have to turn them several times so that the golden crust is on all sides. For this purpose it is good to use a cauldron or deep fryer. True, you need more vegetable oil. But the result is worth it.

To fry such fruits in deep fat, you need:

  • 5 bananas;
  • a pinch of fine salt;
  • 175 milliliters of kefir;
  • 1 slice of lemon;
  • 12-15 grams of sugar;
  • 0.5 cups of wheat flour;
  • 4 grams of ground cinnamon;
  • baking soda (at the tip of a knife);
  • refined vegetable oil;
  • icing sugar.

Deep-fried cooking method:

  1. To make a light dough, kefir must first be mixed with sugar, cinnamon and salt. Then add flour and soda gradually, paying off it with lemon juice.
  2. Cut the peeled bananas into circles no more than 1.5 centimeters thick.
  3. First dip each blank into the dough, and then dip it into a container (deep fryer) with boiling oil.
  4. As soon as a uniform brownish crust forms on the surface of the products, they should be removed with a slotted spoon and put on a napkin (to remove excess fat).

The rosy balls will only be left on a plate and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Fried bananas with honey

It’s delicious to fry bananas with honey.

For this recipe you need to take:

  • 4 bananas;
  • 50 grams of sugar;
  • 25 grams of honey;
  • lemon juice;
  • 50 grams of butter.

The dish is preparing very quickly:

  1. Cut the pulp of bananas into pieces about 1-1.5 centimeters thick.
  2. In a pan, first melt the butter, and then add sugar, and boil the mixture until it dissolves. Then introduce honey and mix well.
  3. Put slices of bananas in a pan and fry until they are covered with a delicate crust.

In a plate, still warm pieces can be sprinkled with cinnamon. Powdered sugar and garnish with mint leaves.

A simple recipe with sugar

The easiest and quickest way to fry bananas with sugar. The whole procedure takes no more than 10 minutes.

To work, you need:

  • 1 banana
  • 50 grams of sugar;
  • 40 grams of butter.

How to cook this simplest dessert:

  1. Peel the bananas peeled randomly with a sharp knife into pieces.
  2. Put the pan on the stove and melt the butter in it.
  3. Pour sugar there, mix and wait until it dissolves.
  4. Transfer the prepared pieces to a sugar-butter mixture and fry for no more than two minutes. As soon as a characteristic crust forms on all sides, the fire must be turned off.

Fried slices of bananas in a plate can be poured with any syrup, honey or chocolate, as well as sprinkled with nuts, sesame seeds or powdered sugar.

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