BANANAS
BBC Good Food ME|June/July 2021
Make good use of your surplus produce with ideas from BBC Good Food’s deputy food editor Esther Clark. This month, she’s created three recipes using ripe bananas
Esther Clark
BANANAS

Most people find themselves with a banana or two lingering in the fruit bowl at the end of the week, beginning to speckle and turn brown and sweet. I like to slice them, then fry them in brown sugar and cinnamon to spoon over porridge or sandwich between brown bread with honey, sea salt and butter (childhood nostalgia!). There’s a small window of opportunity with ripe bananas – you have to catch them at the right time before they go too far. If they do go a bit too brown, you can use them in a banana loaf or bread – I like to mash mine and bake them into cookies, too. Serve them with ice cream, too – they work especially well with salted caramel flavour.

Baked caramelised bananas

SERVES 4 PREP 10 mins COOK 20 mins EASY V

6 ripe bananas, peeled and sliced in half lengthways

2 tbsp dark brown soft sugar

2 tbsp maple syrup

3-4 tbsp non-alcoholic rum or whisky

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