Irish Bananas Recipes

IRISH BANANAS

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in the brown sugar and whiskey. Bring to a boil and cook until sugar has dissolved. Add bananas to the skillet and simmer gently until bananas are tender and glazed with the syrup. Serve immediately with vanilla ice cream.

IRISH STYLE BANOFFEE PIE

Steps:

• 1. First, make the base by melting the butter and pouring it onto the crumbled digestive biscuit.
• 2. Stir well.
• 3. Press into a 8-inch loose bottom spring back base tin.
• 4. Leave to chill in the fridge until you make the caramel filling.
• 5. To make the caramel sauce, melt over medium heat in a pot with butter, syrup, sugar, and the contents of the evaporated milk.
• 6. Stirring continuously, use a wooden spoon to clean the sides of the saucepan. When the butter has melted and the mixture is bubbling slowly but steadily, start timing 10 to 12 minutes as caramel can burn easily.
• 7. Stir into the corners and all around the bottom steadily. When the mixture has coloured slightly and started to thickened remove from heat. Leave to cool a little.
• 8. In a small bowl, slice the bananas.
• 9. Pour over the top a little lemonade or lemon-lime soda so the bananas keep their yellowish colour.
• 10. To make the cream, in a small pot combine gelatin and cold water let stand until it thickens.
• 11. Place over a low heat stirring constantly just until the gelatin dissolves. Remove from the heat and let cool (do not allow to set).
• 12. Whip the fresh heavy cream with the sifted icing sugar with a hand-held electric mixer until thick.
• 13. Now, slowing beating, add the cooled gelatin to your whipping cream.
• 14. Add to your digestive base the caramel sauce.
• 15. Then the sliced bananas spreading them out evenly.
• 16. Add to that the whipped cream. Try to make a swirl effect just for decoration with your cream.
• 17. Just sprinkle some chocolate sprinkles over the top of the banoffee pie.

FRIED IRISH BANANAS

Steps:

• 1. Melt butter in large skillet over medium heat, stir in brown sugar and whiskey. Bring to a boil and cool until sugar dissolves. Add bananas and simmer until bananas are tender and glazed with the syrup. Serve over ice cream and top with whipped cream and chopped nuts, if desired.

FROZEN IRISH BANANA

Steps:

• In advance, rim the end of a chilled goblet with shaved coconut
• Blend all the ingredients, except the garnishes, until the mixture is smooth
• Pour into a goblet.
• Sprinkle the top with nutmeg, and garnish with half a strawberry
• Now sit back, relax and imagine the crystal-blue ocean lapping at your toes (even though it may just be your neighbor's dog).

IRISH BANOFFEE PIE ( CARAMEL AND BANANA

Steps:

• 1 Heat oven to 400 degree's. make crust. Combine cracker crumbs with sugar. Add melted butter. Combine well,and press in to a 9 inch spring form pan bottom,and going up half way up sides of pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.
• 2 make caramel- Melt butter in saucepan . Add brown sugar. Cook on high heat. Bring to a boil stirring constantly.Make sure sugar dissolves.
• 3 Add the condensed milk,and combine well. Bring to a boil. Set timer for 1 minute and 30 seconds. Boil on high heat stirring constantly.Mixture should get thickened.If not thickened. Cook a little longer.
• 4 pour half of the caramel on to bottom of crust you made. Slice 3 banana's and toss with a little lemon juice. Place slices in caramel. Pour the rest of the caramel on top. Now slice 3 more banana's and toss with lemon juice. Place in top of the caramel. Refrigerate until caramel sets.
• 5 make cream topping - Beat the whipping cream with confection sugar and coffee. Beat until soft peaks. Fold in 1 sliced banana. Top pie with cream. Shave chocolate bar on top. Add walnut's on top if desired. Decorate how you wish. Keep refrigerated.