Recipes
Pan-Flambéed Bananas
Make these pan-flambéed bananas for dessert!
Prep: 20 minCook: 5 minYield: Serves 4
Ingredients
- •4 Cavendish bananas
- •2 tablespoons water
- •3 tablespoons demerara sugar
- •Juice of half a lemon
- •50 ml cachaça or brandy
- •Ground cinnamon to taste
Instructions
- 1
Place the sugar and water in a frying pan and bring to a boil; this takes about 30 seconds.
- 2
Once it starts boiling, add the bananas and cook for 1½ minutes.
- 3
Turn the bananas over, add the lemon juice and ground cinnamon, and cook for another 1½ minutes.
- 4
Remove the pan from the heat, but leave the burner on.
- 5
Hold a ladle containing the cachaça over the same burner. As soon as it catches fire, pour it into the pan and return the pan to the burner to flambé.
- 6
Continue cooking until the alcohol in the cachaça evaporates and the flame dies out.
- 7
Your flambéed bananas are ready!
- 8
Serve hot!