One of the most delicious, healthy and nutritious fruits is sun bananas. It’s easy to figure out what to make from bananas. They are good fresh, in baking, desserts, cocktails. And lovers of non-trivial tastes will certainly appreciate the banana spicy meat sauce. With pulp, you can fry or bake chicken, pork. At first glance it seems that the tastes are incompatible, but it is not!
Add bananas to charlotte
The classic apple charlotte will sparkle with a new taste and incredible tenderness, if you add 1 banana to the apples. We offer the following recipe:
- Beat 4 chicken eggs, gradually adding half a glass of sugar.
- Add 0.5 teaspoons of baking powder and 1 cup sifted flour. It is necessary to introduce them into the egg mass gently, mixing from top to bottom with a wooden spatula.
- Peel and cut into small cubes 3 large apples and 1 banana.
- Stir with the dough.
- Lubricate the mold with butter, sprinkle with flour and put the cake in the oven to be heated to 185 degrees for 45 minutes.
Make sweet sauce for pancakes (waffles)
If you are tired of pancakes with condensed milk, sour cream, honey and jam, try a surprisingly fragrant banana sauce. You will spend no more than 10 minutes on its preparation:
- Prepare 200 g of banana pulp, 4 tbsp. tablespoons sour cream or yogurt, 1 tbsp. teaspoon of lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar.
- Mix all the ingredients with a blender or make mashed bananas with a fork, and then mix with sour cream, lemon juice and vanilla.
To prevent fresh banana pulp from darkening, use acid such as lemon juice or apple cider vinegar in recipes.
Milkshake Recipe
What could be tastier and more nutritious than a banana-milk shake? Such a drink, among other things, is also very healthy. It calms the nerves, helps to overcome insomnia, heartburn and constipation.
Just whisk the following ingredients with a blender:
- a glass of milk;
- ripe banana;
- cinnamon, vanilla and honey to taste.
Banana pork
If the meat is cooked with bananas, it will turn out to be very tender and juicy. Sweetness is absolutely not felt. Recipe:
- Strip 600 g of pork and fry in vegetable oil.
- When the meat is almost ready, add 2 tbsp. spoons of paprika, a handful of cashew nuts and 2 bananas, sliced in rings.
- Pour the glass with a glass of 15% cream, salt, pepper and simmer everything over low heat for 5 minutes.
If you are confused by the appearance of the circles, you can crush them with a fork. No one will guess which secret ingredient you used. And also, according to reviews, pork with bananas is very tasty if seasoned with garlic.
Spicy meat sauce
Velvet texture, tenderness, pleasant sweetness and light pungency - this is how those who are lucky enough to taste it describe the spicy banana sauce. It perfectly replaces ketchup and at the same time it is prepared quickly and simply:
- Mash the flesh of one large banana with a fork.
- Add 3 tbsp. tablespoons of fresh lemon juice, 0.5 teaspoons of turmeric, nutmeg and dry ginger, a little pepper to taste.
- Fry finely chopped onions (1 onion) in a pan in a small amount of oil.
- Put everything in the blender bowl, add 2 tbsp. tablespoons of soy sauce and bring to a uniform consistency.
Done! Store the sauce in the refrigerator for 3-4 days, unless you eat it immediately after cooking.
Banana fritters
One of the most popular banana desserts is fritters. Prepare no more complicated than usual:
- Mix 1 chicken egg and 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar.
- Add 200 ml of milk, 1 pinch of salt and 0.5 tsp of soda.
- Gradually add 180 g of flour to the slurry.
- Cut 1 banana in half circles.
- Mix the banana slices with the dough.
- Put the pancakes in a hot pan with a spoon. Fry from 2 sides until golden brown.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.
Fried bananas in batter
Cut the fruit into large slices, dip in a bowl with an egg, and then with flour, and place in a hot frying pan. Fry on both sides until golden crisp. Serve with nuts, honey, caramel, cinnamon, ice cream. The new taste will pleasantly surprise you!
Bananas for face and hair
If you do not want to eat bananas, it does not matter. Use fruits for cosmetic purposes. Their flesh is famous for its moisturizing and nourishing properties. It improves skin color, rejuvenates, eliminates irritation. And the hair after a banana mask becomes soft, docile and shiny.
- For face
Turn a banana into a slurry with a fork, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of cream and 1 teaspoon of honey. Apply on face for 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water.
- For hair
Thoroughly mix 0.5 banana, 1 egg yolk, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of honey and sour cream. Spread over the entire length of the hair. Put a plastic hat on your head. After 1 hour, rinse your hair with warm water.
Do not throw banana peel
It can also be used for cosmetic purposes. The side that adjoins the pulp whitens teeth and improves complexion.
After eating, make it a rule to rub your teeth with a piece of banana skin. The result will be noticeable in about a week. And so that the skin glows with youth, with a banana peel, massage your face for 15 minutes 3 times a week.
You can also polish leather shoes with a banana peel.
Freeze bananas
If there are too many fruits or you simply don’t want to cook right now, you can resort to freezing. For convenient use, later chop the pulp into pulp and freeze in ice molds. To prevent bananas from darkening, be sure to add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice for every 100 g of product. Then the cubes can be added to a glass of milk, porridge, dough, prepare sauces, sweet desserts from them.
In the freezer, bananas are stored for 3 months.
According to professional chefs, banana is a versatile product. It is added to meat, salads, pastries, sauces, desserts, cakes. There are a lot of applications. Don't just go for sweet foods. The abundance of bananas in the kitchen is a great occasion for experimentation.