See! I told you, ONLY 3 ingredients!
Some how, blasting the Red Hot Chili Peppers and making fried bananas just seems right. Huh? Who agrees? Let me tell you, dancing around like a fool to The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie and chopping up some bananas is a crap ton of fun.
Anywho, my family and I went out to dinner tonight and when we got home, my sister was hankering for some dessert. I immediately knew what to make her. Fried bananas. She agreed quickly because she likes the ones from Texas De Brazil so much (speaking of which, if you're paleo, Brazilian steak houses like Texas De Brazil are AWESOME...all you can eat meat, and a HUGE salad bar, a little pricy, but well worth it).
Fried bananas are literally the quickest dessert you can whip up when you really want something sweet. It literally takes 3 ingredients, a frying pan, and a pair of tongs or a spatula.
And, we're off! To the world of Fried Bananas (Not the Dexter Gordon song, for you jazz nerds out there...okay, that's probably just me and my boyfriend. Not funny. Got it. Moving on...)
Ingredients (Yields 1 serving):
1 Medium or large banana (depending on how hungry you are)
1 tbs of coconut oil
Cinnamon to taste
Directions:
1. Peel and cut your banana in to fourths (I made a little extra so I could have some, but I trust you can follow my written directions). Cut the banana in half, then cut the halves in half. Got it? Enough of the half talk. If you prefer NOT to have longer larger pieces, you can cut the banana in to little circles, just remember in both cases, THE THICKER THE BETTER. Why you ask? Because if it's thin, it turns to moosh and looks like hot steaming banana baby food (I mean...my pictures do no justice, but you get the point, don't make little slivers).
2. Oil your frying pan with coconut oil...that means dump your clump of coconut oil on the pan, turn the heat on medium and let that stuff melt. Now you can spread the oil around by lifting the pan from the heat and moving it from side to side and up and down until the pan is coated in oil.
3. Place your chopped nanners (yes, I refer to my bananas as nanners, and I am a 21 year old woman. NO SHAME!) in to your frying pan and let them fry on medium high for about 2 minutes. Check on them. It can be more or less depending on your stove/preference. Just look for that nice dark yellow/golden brown color. Seriously...check on them. Also, step 4 is important. Very important.
4. NOW FLIP THEM! Show some love to the other side of that banana slice, and do the same thing, so the other side can cook. Think of it as the cool side of the pillow...being warmed back up? Okay, bad analogy, just don't forget to flip them.
Here lay our nanners. They are currently frying. That's what they should look like as they fry. Do your nanners look like this? I hope so. Okay Moving on.
5. Transfer your friend bananas to a plate, and sprinkle them with cinnamon, and other tasty/sweet seasonings of your choice. You may also add raw honey or stevia to them if you like, but the bananas are caramelized as they fry, so they're plenty sweet for my sister and I.
Warning: this next photo does no justice to the end product. I had some issues with my tongs, and the cinnamon plus the lighting didn't make for a great photo...they were SUPER tasty though. I have pictures of my sister eating them to prove it! (That's not weird or anything...)
See? Delicious. They were a hit.
My sister was a very happy camper. The dish was gone within seconds after I snapped this photo, so I'm glad I got one shot before they were gone!
Eat, Drink, & Be Merry
Maria
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