banana glut

dellamirandola

Make banana bread. It's lovely, and best made with slightly past their best bananas.

And you can toast it the day after.

VickyA_2

dellamirandola wrote:

Make banana bread. It's lovely, and best made with slightly past their best bananas.

And you can toast it the day after.

I was just about to suggest that! It's exactly what I'll be doing with my browning bananas :j :j :j :j :j

fairylights_2

Or banana muffins? We found that the best way to sneak banana into our toddler when he refused fruit for a while. Stealth vitamins! :rotfl:

nightsong

Banana flapjacks are our staple for past-it bananas. Add 2 mashed bananas and some raisins to an ordinary flapjack recipe (cut down on the sugar and butter slightly). Delicious!

LearningToSave.

oooohhhhh nightsong......i have just got into flapjacks......any chance of a recipie??
bread is fab idea too,and muffins....yummmm.......may have to buy some more bananas and let em sit there for a while!!!

squeaky

There are more ideas in the Cooking section of the MEGA Index - listed under Fruit,

Trow

Or barbecue them - stick them on the barbie (or in the oven) till the skins are black and east the cooked banana with ice cream. Yum! If you like chinese style banana fritters etc - this tastes just like it, but without the fritter.

Also - you can freeze them to make banana bread/cake with if you can't use them now. No use defrosted for anything else afaik, but they work well in cake/bread.

nightsong

LearningToSave. wrote:

oooohhhhh nightsong......i have just got into flapjacks......any chance of a recipie??
bread is fab idea too,and muffins....yummmm.......may have to buy some more bananas and let em sit there for a while!!!

Sure thing :-). This is a National Childbirth Trust recipe, I got it over 20 years ago and have been using it ever since, so it's pre-metric I'm afraid.

6 oz. butter
5 oz brown sugar
8 oz rolled oats (ie ordinary porridge oats)
2 small/ 1 large banana, mashed
4 oz raisins (or chopped dates)

makes about 16 allegedly, I always make double quantities and they don't last very long!!

Melt the butter in a big pan. Take it off the heat and mix in all the other ingredients (oats last). Then pour into a baking tray and cook for 20-25 mins in a pre-heated oven, Gas 7, 220 c. Easy eh? Enjoy!

LearningToSave.

ooohhhhhh thankyou,thankyou,thankyou!!!
im sure my daughter will help eat them this way too :rotfl:

Allexie

Just freeze and eat when frozen....they taste like banana ice-cream when frozen. Your little-y may decide he/she likes bananas again!