Banana Recipes

Different parts of the world use the banana in different ways to come up with mouth watering banana delicacies. There are synonymous recipes that feature specific cultures but generally, it is agreeable all over that bananas produce very unique tastes. The preparation of bananas can only equal that of potatoes, which many different cultures across the globe devise different ways of cooking them thanks to their resourcefulness.

Lets start with the common but outstanding cuisines synonymous with known cultures. The Banana Split, is a classic American Dessert which date back to the 1900s. Its first appearance was in Pennsylvania where it constituted a split of banana, few scoops of ice cream, strawberry sauce, chocolate sauce and Americas traditional maraschino cherry spread on top.

Then if we go south, way south so south America – Brazil we will find another recipe using bananas. They mash them together with some brown sugar, cinnamon and ginger and the cook this mix for a long time. The sugar melts, everything melts together and becomes thick. They later leave it to cool down and they make delicious rolls out of it.

Another popular banana recipe is the banana fritters of the Caribbean. The fritters consist of chunks of bananas dipped in flour, then dipped into rich batter. They are then flavored with rum. Next, they are deep fried in hot oil until they turn golden and finally sprinkled with powdered sugar.

In India, you are sure not to miss the Panchamrutham, which are cut ups of bananas spiced up and then sweetened with honey. Sweet yoghurt cheese, a mixture of banana, almonds and pistachios which are then sweetly spiced up with cardamom are also synonymous with Indians. You also are sure to spot Sweet Banana Lassi, a sweet, mouth watering cooling beverage purely made with banana and yoghurt only.

Next we are going into some of the countries that are also known for growing bananas. It is understandable that these countries have plenty of recipes that include bananas. Lets take a look at a few recipes from Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand. They use bananas in a wide range of recipes from adding them to salads, using them in curry dishes (this is very common) or adding them to different food including vegetables. Bananas go great with stews and meat.

So far we have eaten bananas raw, cooked and fried, now it is time to drink them. To do this we need to go to East Africa where they use them to brew beer! and if you are still not convinced how useful and widespread bananas are in cooking – of all the meals prepared with bananas only 80% are prepared with the fruit itself, all others use other parts of the banana plant, like leaves for instance.

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