Bananas Foster

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons butter
• ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
• 4 bananas (ripe), cut lengthwise into halves
• ½ cup dark rum
• 1 pint vanilla ice cream

Preparation

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 the bananas 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 and flame away from heat. Shake the pan back and forth until the flame dies.

Serve over vanilla ice cream and serve immediately.

Techniques used in this recipe:

flambéflambé: food that has had brandy or liqueur poured over, which is then set alight.