In classical restaurant kitchen the vanilla ice cream and caramelized bananas dessert is called Foster's Bananas, in honor of Richard Foster, the fighter against crime in New Orleans. But except this popular dessert, caramelized bananas can be also a stuffing for pancakes, a wafer, toasts and an elegant lifesaver in case you have unexpected guests sweet teeth or sudden night thirst for sweet.
It is required to you
- Caramelized bananas
- 4 bananas
- 1 tablespoons of unsalted butter;
- 4 tablespoons of a refiner syrup;
- ¼ tsps of ground cinnamon;
- at will: nuts
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- dark rum
- banana or orange liqueur
- orange juice.
- Foster's bananas
- 4 bananas;
- 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter;
- 1 / 2 glasses of a dark refiner syrup;
- 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon;
- 1 / 2 tsps of grated nutmeg;
- 3 tablespoons of lemon juice;
- 1 / 2 glasses of banana flavored liqueur;
- 1 / 2 glasses of dark rum or cognac of good quality.
Instruction
1. For caramelization choose large firm yellow bananas. A little green fruits – unripe, they can give to a dish bitter smack. Soft bananas won't be able to hold a form in preparation time.
2. Peel bananas. If you serve bananas as an independent dish or as Foster's bananas, cut them lengthways in half. If you are going to use caramelized bananas as a stuffing, slice with a their thickness of 1 - 1.5 centimeter.
3. Caramelized to a bananypostavta a heavy wide frying pan on average fire also kindle in it a desi. As soon as oil begins to bubble, a thin stream, accurately stirring slowly, pour a refiner syrup. When at you uniform smooth caramel turns out, put in it bananas. If you have halves of bananas, then put them the flat party up. You stew bananas so within 20 seconds, then strew them with a half of cinnamon and prepare 10 more seconds.
4. Turn bananas the flat party down, water with glaze and strew with the remained cinnamon. At this stage you can add alcohol or simple orange juice. Be careful if decide to add liqueur, rum or cognac – they can flash.
5. Water bananas with caramel sauce each 20 seconds. Prepare about 1 more minute. Before giving you can roll in bananas in the cut nuts, an almond crumb, мюслях.
6. Bananas of FosteraV of a skvorode-flambe on average fire mix a desi, a refiner syrup and cinnamon. Stir slowly until sugar isn't dissolved. Add banana flavored liqueur and put the bananas cut lengthways a cut up.
7. When bananas get a brown shade, carefully pour in rum or cognac. Wait until it flashes if alcohol doesn't light up – set fire to it. Wait until the flame dies away, add lemon juice to caramel and water with it bananas. Decorate an ice cream ball with caramelized bananas, water with the remained warm sauce.