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| Bananas Foster at Stanley's Restaurant, New Orleans. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
When sugar is cooked, it melts and develops a more complex flavor and deeper cooler. In this recipe, the sugar is mixed with butter for additional flavor and the butter sugar mixture is cooked until it darkens. Be aware that cooked sugar becomes very hot and will badly burn fingers or tongues that venture a premature taste.
Bananas foster would be best to try in order to know the degree of hotness can a caramelize sugar become after the brown sugar coats the bananas. It maybe burning hot but when stand for a while, another exciting taste will burn to your heart's desire.
You will need:
3 ripe but still firm bananas
3 tablespoons (2 oz/60 g) unsalted butter
1/4 cup (2 oz/60 g) firmly packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons rum
4 scoops good-quality vanilla ice cream
Here's how:
Peel the bananas. Cut each banana in half lengthwise, and then cut each half in half crosswise.
In a large frying pan over medium heat, melt the butter until it foams. Place the bananas in the pan, cut side down. Fry the bananas until they are slightly brown, 5-6 minutes. Turn them over. Sprinkle the bananas with the brown sugar and add the rum to the frying pan. Gently swirl to mix and continue to cook until the bananas are a deep golden brown, 4-5 minutes more.
To serve, place 3 banana pieces on each warmed dessert plate. Spoon the sauce in the pan over the bananas. Top each serving with a small scoop of ice cream.
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