Recipes Nugget Markets Signature Recipes
Bananas Foster
- Prep time
- 5 minutes PT5M
- Cook time
- 5–10 minutes PT10M
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
Use caution when making this fiery dessert, then cool down by serving it over vanilla ice cream!
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 4 ripe bananas, halved lengthwise
- ½ cup dark rum
- 1 pint vanilla ice cream, for serving
Preparation
In a sauté pan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg and cook, while stirring, until the sugar dissolves, about 2 minutes. Add bananas and cook on both sides until they start to soften, about 3 minutes.
Carefully add the rum (away from flame) and shake pan back and forth to warm the rum and flame the pan, or take a match or lighter and flame away from heat. Shake the pan back and forth to flambé until the flame dies, less than 1 minute.
Serve immediately over vanilla ice cream.
Techniques used in this recipe:
- flambé
- flambé: food that has had brandy or liqueur poured over, which is then set alight.