weekly_food_challenge | Entries tagged with fruit: banananananananana

My kids are currently all about smoothies and slushies and the like -- anything that can be made using the thermomix and frozen Stuff.

They made for me raspberry softserve not quite ice-cream, and it was glorious.

Ingredients:
Peel and freeze bananas. This is better if they are heading towards soft, but not yet squishy (save those ones for baking).
Frozen berries. We bought ours pre-frozen at the local supermarket. We had raspberries, but any tart fruit would go nicely.

Equipment:
Blender or equivalent (I haven't tried this with a stick blender, but presumably it would work if you could get things moving?)

Process:
Put roughly equal amounts* (by weight or volume) of frozen banana and berries into blending device**, blend until smooth. Serve in cup or bowl. While this will refreeze, it isn't as nice unless you stir it repeatedly while it freezes.

* I think we do 3/4 cup of unblended fruit per person, taste, and then add either more banana or more berries, depending on taste. But I'm inclined to just look at how much I've got, and chuck some in.
** We have a Thermomix, so we use a Thermomix. But I used to do the same thing when I had a standalone blender, so as long as your blender can deal with the frozen nature of the fruit, you should be fine.

norfolkian

Mood: amused

I realise I'm not the first person to make a banana loaf for this challenge, but it's something I've wanted to try for a long time. I've also been watching a lot of Great British Bake Off as there are 7 series of it on Netflix now, so was feeling quite inspired to do some baking.

I tried to make banana bread once before (a long time ago), but it went horribly wrong (I'm not sure how - I think I put too much banana in and it went very dense and a really weird texture). This time I turned to Queen Mary Berry for help with my proper go at a banana loaf. Recipe is here: https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/banana-loaf.

It was really easy to make and aside from the baking powder, I had all the ingredients all ready in, so that was a bonus. It baked perfectly within the hour and the result was a light and fluffy, very banana-y, loaf.

Unfortunately, I had decided to cook it in a silicon 2lb loaf 'tin' that I'd had sitting around at the back of a cupboard for ages. I didn't grease it or anything because I thought the whole point was that it was meant to be super non-stick. Lesson learned, as I really struggled to turn it out. The resultant mess is under the cut. It still tastes amazing, though!

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donutsweeper

Super easy and delicious way to use up ripe or overripe bananas:

Two bananas
1-2 C oats (quick, old fashioned or gluten free, depending on banana size)
Add-ins of your choice - chocolate chips, dried fruit or nuts (1/2-1 cup, if desired)

Preheat your oven 350F/175C. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or something similar.
Mash the bananas (with a potato masher or even just a fork). Stir in the oats. Mix in the add-ins.
Spoon out onto cookie sheets flattening slightly. Bake about 15 minutes or until set (rolled oats will take longer to cook).
Cool a little before eating.
Makes 16 or so cookies, recipe can be easily halved.

moetushie

Mood: content

Growing up, a bunch of overripe bananas could only mean one thing: a showdown between my mom and I. On one corner was me, with a burning desire for banana bread. On the other, my mom, determined to make teler pitha. Who would win???

Usually my mom, because while I love banana bread, I'm also pretty lazy about actually getting to the kitchen!

But teler pitha are pretty good -- they're fried banana fritters, after all. I especially love the crust on them -- deep brown and almost caramel-y rich, with tender banana insides. The definition of comfort food, for all that you might be making them in a cramped apartment kitchen, instead of outdoors, with an open flame and It's hard to mess up.

Ingredients:
3 medium sized overripe bananas, mashed
1 cup rice flour (or 1/2 cup AP flour, 1/2 cup rice flour, or all AP)
1 egg
1/4 cup sugar or equivalent sugar substitute (add more or less according to your sweetness preference)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
Pinch of salt
Oil for frying

Method:

1. Whisk flour(s), baking powder, baking soda, salt together in a bowl, set aside. In another bowl, mix bananas, sugar, egg and vanilla. Pour wet ingredients with dry and mix. Batter will be very thick. Add a tsp of water if it's too thick, but you don't want a runny batter.

2. Prepare for the frying. I'm pretty leery of deep-frying and end up going for a more shallower pan with less oil. Frying with faint praise. Drop rounded spoonfuls of batter in to the oil once it's hot enough. Don't over crowd the pan -- fry in batches.

The pitha are done when they have turned deep brown (but you can take them out when they're lighter colored -- up to you.)

3. Serve immediately, with a light dusting of powdered sugar (if feeling fancy.)

Now that I think of it, isn't teler pitha fried banana bread? Isn't banana bread baked teler pitha? Food for thought!

miss_s_b

This one is for when you've overindulged the night before. It contains vital fluids, sugars, and some protein. You can take a paracetamol with it too if you like ;)

You will need:

- one hungover human
- half a pint of milk
- a bananananananana
- some powdered ginger OR some finely grated fresh ginger root*
- some honey
- a blender

Method:

- peel the banananananananana and break it up into chunks then drop it in the blender
- add a teaspoon of honey
- add ginger to taste (ginger is good for settling poorly tums)
- pour in the half-pint of milk
- put the lid on and blend till smooth - although you can easily do this with a stick blender if you don't have a big one.
- cringe as the noise of the blender penetrates your delicate skull to its core and swear never to drink again.

Serve with doggie cuddles, a duvet, and a feeling of regret.

* I have one of these little spanish saucer things which makes grating ginger and/or garlic to a fine paste really easy, but I know not everyone has one

miss_s_b

Mood: amused

This week's challenge, should you choose to accept it, it to produce a recipe featuring banananananananananas. If you like, you can sing Bana-nana to the tune of this while you're doing it:

Watch on YouTube

norfolkian

Mood: okay

I don't really cook much at breakfast time. It's usually toast or cereal with the occasional boiled eggs or scrambled eggs at the weekend. But I thought I would try something a little different for this challenge, but still keeping it fairly simple as I'm still not in my own kitchen.

This BBC Good Food recipe was my inspiration, but I made a few changes - namely leaving out the sugar and adjusting the quantities. Generally, I do just prefer porridge on its own (made with milk), but this was a nice alternative, although I feel that strawberries are not yet at their best and this would be nicer in summer. I felt it gave me a good bit of energy before heading out for an archery practice session, though.

Serves 2

Ingredients
80g-ish rolled porridge oats
1/2 tsp of cinnamon
milk (amount according to packet instructions on the porridge - or you could do what I did and just guess...)
2 bananas, sliced
200g-ish strawberries, halved

Method
Add the oats, cinnamon, milk and one sliced banana to a pan and cook according to the porridge oat pack instructions. Once it's ready, serve between two bowls and add the rest of the banana and the strawberries. Sprinkle with a little more cinnamon if desired.

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