Sunday, June 23, 2013

Roasted Bananas

Here is a really yummy treat that my family and I have been loving the past few months-- roasted bananas.  Really!
Here's how you do it:
Start with really ripe bananas-- they need to at least have brown spots on them, even riper is fine, too.
Cover a cookie sheet (with edges) with foil and spray with cooking spray.
Cut bananas in diagonal slices 1/2 inch thick.
Put under the broiler and broil until the tops are caramelized and bubbly.
Take out, and turn over each slice using tongs.  Sometimes there is banana "juice" that you can spoon into a bowl and use for syrup over ice cream-- yum!
Broil again until the tops are caramelized and bubbly.

These are so, so, so good.  Even my non-banana-lovers love these.  If you want to be especially extravagant, put a few over vanilla ice cream.  So good, and such a great way to get rid of over-ripe bananas (much easier and lower-calorie than banana bread).  I can slice about 4 bananas onto my big cookie sheet, and they are scarfed down in about 2 minutes.




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