Dates-Apple Cutlet

Ingredients

Apple: 1

Banana/Plantain: 2

Dates: 10

Egg: 1         

Bread Crumps: 1cup

Oil: Deep Frying

Method Of Preparation

Boil and peel banana and mash it

Add in finely chopped dates and apple. If needed you can soak dates for 1 hour if not soft.

Mix it well.

Roll it into oblong shape, first dip in egg, then roll in bread crumps and deep fry in oil till all sides turns golden brown.

Serve hot.

Fruit Salad

Ingredients

Apple: 1

Banana/Plantain: 1

Grapes: 10

Pear: 1

Papaya: 1 small slice

Banana (Chiquita): 1

Honey: 3tbsp or as per required

Milk:1cup

Method Of Preparation

Peel and cut all the fruits except grapes and Chiquita banana.

In a blender add banana Chiquita and milk and blend to smooth paste.

Take the fruit pieces in a bowl, add in grapes to it.

Add in the blended banana mix and add in honey. Stir and mix well.

Chill it and serve.

Crunchy Dates Stuffed Banana Cutlet

Ingredients

Dates: 10

Coconut grated: 4tbsp

Raisins and cashews: few

Banana/Plantain: 3big

Sugar: 2tbsp

Ghee: 1tbsp

Vermicelli: 1cup

Egg: 1 (if required only, if banana is ripe enough egg not required)

Oil: for deep frying

Method Of Preparation

Cook, peel and mash banana. Keep this aside.

Heat ghee in a pan, add in cashews and then raisins. Then add in coconut and add deseeded and chopped dates.

Stir in low flame for a while till the dates turn slightly smooth.

Add in sugar. Mix the filling well.

Take egg and vermicelli in separate bowls.

Take small balls from mashed banana, then just flatten it with the palm and add in 1tsp dates filling and roll it.

Then first dip in egg and then roll in vermicelli and deep fry it till all sides turns golden brown.

Pazham Nirachath/Stuffed Plantain

Ingredients

Plantain/Banana: 4

Coconut: 1cup
Cardamom powder: ½ tsp
Cashews& raisins: 2tbsp each
Ghee: 2tbsp
Sugar: 2tbsp
Maida: ¼ cup (add a bit salt and 1/2tsp sugar to it)
Oil: 4tbsp or as needed for shallow fry

Method Of Preparation

Make lengthwise 4 slits on banana.

Heat ghee in a pan, add cashews and raisins and roast it.
Then add grated coconut to it. Stir for 2minutes and switch off the flame. Then add in sugar and cardamom powder to it and stir.
In another bowl take maida and add little water and salt and sugar and make smooth paste out of it.
Take the slit bananas; carefully fill in the coconut mix through the slits.
Close the slits with the maida paste.
Heat oil in a pan and add the bananas to it and shallow fry the bananas till all sides turn golden brown.

Strawberry -Banana Compote

Ingredients

Strawberry: 400gms

Banana/Plantain: peeled and sliced: 1

Sugar: 4-5tbsp or according to sweetness of the fruit.

Lemon Juice: 1tbsp
Water: ¼ cup

Method Of Preparation

In a wide pan add chopped banana, sugar and water.

Keep on flame, when it boils low the flame.

When sugar melts and banana is 75% cooked increase the flame and add chopped strawberries to it. Keep on stirring till you get it thick and slight sticky consistency. Add in lemon juice and stir and switch off the flame after 2minutes. Don’t mash the fruits.

Serve with bread or topping for cakes and ice creams

Crunchy Banana Fritters

Ingredients

Banana: 2

Maida: 1 cup

Baking Powder: ¼ tsp

Salt: a pinch

Sugar: 3tbsp

Turmeric powder: ¼ tsp

Semiya/Vermicelli (Broken): needed

Oil: for deep frying

Method Of Preparation

Peel and cut the bananas into round slices. Keep aside.

In a bowl add maida, baking powder, salt, and sugar and turmeric powder.

Add little water and stir well to make it a thick batter (when you dip the finger in the batter and while taking out the finger, the batter should coat well on the finger. That is the consistency)

Take vermicelli on another plate.

Heat oil in a kadai.

Take each banana piece, first dip in batter and then roll in vermicelli and deep fry in oil till golden brown.

Serve hot with tea.

Banana-Bread Pudding

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Ingredients

Bread: 5 Slices

Sugar: 1 ½ cup & 1tbsp

Water: ¼ cup

Milk: 4 cups

China Grass: 10gms

Custard powder: 3full tsp

Banana/Plantain: 1 big

Cherry: 6

Ghee/butter: as needed to toast the bread

Semiya roasted in ghee for decoration

Method Of Preparation

1.     First prepare the caramel solution for that heat a nonstick pan and add 4tbsp sugar, low the flame and do not stir the sugar, when it melts completely add ¼ cup of boiling water to it and stir. Switch off the flame after 2minutes. Keep this aside.

2.     Slice the Banana and keep aside.

3.     Toast the bread in ghee and keep aside.

4.     Divide the milk to 2 parts, one for custard and other for china grass.

5.     Melt the china grass by adding ½ cup water. Boil two cups of milk by adding 1 cup sugar and when it boils lower the flame and keep it for 5 minutes low flame. Switch off the flame. Add the melted china grass at the same temperature of milk.

6.     To the other 2 cups of milk add custard powder and 1 cup sugar. Stir without lumps and keep on flame. Stir frequently till it thickens and switch off the flame.

7.     Take the sliced banana and add 3tbsp the caramel solution to it and keep aside.

Arranging

Take the bowl in which you are preparing the pudding.

1.     Grease the bowl with ghee/butter

2.     Arrange or spread the cherries by cutting into small pieces or as it is in the bowl.

3.     Then add/spread the banana pieces above the cherries.

4.     Then spread the toasted bread pieces over the banana.

5.     Then add the china grass milk mix over the bread and add 2-3tbsp caramel solution over it and keep in refrigerator for 10-15minutes.

6.     The add the custard mix over it, add caramel solution and roasted semiya and again refrigerate it for 1 hour or till it sets.

7.     When sets, upside down it to a plate and cut and serve.

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Crunchy Banana-Apple Cutlet

Ingredients

Banana(big)/Ripe Plantain: 2 (don’t use too ripe banana)

Apple: 1

Raisins & cashews: 1 handful (roasted)

Sugar: 2tbsp (if needed)

Egg: 1

Semiya/vermicelli small: needed (or break the big vermicelli into small pieces)

Oil: for deep frying

Method Of Preparation

Cook the banana till done. (Do not overcook).

Peel and mash it well.

Peel the apple and chop into small pieces.

Add this to mashed bananas.

Add roasted raisins and cashews to it. Sugar if needed.

Mix well with hand and shape it to balls and slightly flatten it.

In a bowl beat the egg and keep aside. In another plate take the semiya.

Roll each ball in egg and then roll well in semiya.

Heat oil in a pan and deep fry till both sides are golden brown.
Serve hot with tea.

Semolina-Plantain Cake

Ingredients

Ripe Plantain/Banana: 2 big

Milk: 2 cups

Eggs: 2

Semolina/rava: 250gms

Maida/Plain Flour: 6tbsp

Salt: pinch

Sugar: 1 cup (adjust as per taste)

Baking Powder: 1tsp

Baking Soda: a pinch

Essence any flavor: ½ tsp

Refined oil: ¼ cup (can use butter too)

Honey: for glaze

Method Of Preparation

Boil the banana with required water till it is well cooked. Drain and peel.

Powder the sugar and keep aside.

In a blender add boiled banana, milk, egg, essence and refined oil.

Blend well.  Transfer it to a bowl.

Then add baking powder, baking soda, sugar and salt to it.

Mix it with balloon whisk. Then add semolina and maida to it.

Mix well. Transfer this to a greased baking tray.

Bake in the preheated to about 75-80 minutes at 160⁰C or till done.

Remove from the oven and give it a honey glaze vigorously.

Slice when cooled and serve.

SunShine Parfait

The original recipe called for flavored yogurt. You can replace with any fruits of your chice.                                                                                                                                           

Ingredients

Corn Flakes

Apple Chopped

Banana Chopped

Ice cream (any flavor)

Grated Chocolate 

Method Of Preparation

Take a serving bowl or glass.

Add some corn flakes, banana chopped, apple chopped, grated chocolate and ice cream. Repeat the process till you fill the bowl or glass.

Note: I felt there is no requirement for the quantity of ingredients. You can add as per your taste.

Mixed Fruit Milk Shake

Ingredients

Avocado: half of 1 Avocado

Apple: 2

Pear: 3

Plums: 1

Strawberry: 2

Guava: 1

Plantain/Big Ripe banana: 1

Chilled Milk: 1 ltr (as per the consistency you can increase or decrease)

Sugar: needed            

Method Of Preparation

In a blender add guava and 1 cup water and blend. Strain this to remove the seeds and keep the pulp aside.

Peel and chop apple, pear, plums, Avocado and banana.

In a blender add the above chopped fruits, guava pulp, strawberry and sugar.

Add milk to it and blend well.

Serve chilled.

Tip: The addition of fresh ripe plantain will give extra taste to the juice.

Banana Nest

Ingredients

Banana/ Plantain Ripe: 2

Coconut Grated: ½ cup

Sugar: 4-5 tbsp

Semiya/ Vermicelli: needed

Cardamom Powder: ¼ tsp

Oil: for deep frying

Method of Preparation

Steam/ Cook the plantain till done. (Plantain should be ripe enough but not too over ripe)

Mash it well with hand.

Add grated coconut, cardamom powder and sugar to it. Mix well with hand.

Make small balls from it, roll it in semiya and flatten a bit and make a thumb impression at the middle. Press well so that the semiya will stay on it. (If semiya is not coating on the banana you can use beaten egg or thin maida batter, for me I didn’t use any of them, it coated itself)

Heat oil in a pan and deep fry till the semiya becomes golden brown.

A crunchy snack is ready to serve.
In my opinion this is the best snack that u could make with plantain. 

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Banana Bread

 Nowadays I am trying to use wheat flour instead of All Purpose Flour in baking. What I noticed is the use of wheat flour tastes better than the APF and of course healthy too and in my most of the recipe I replace refined oil instead of butter. The bread was soft and really it tasted great.

Ingredients

Wheat Flour: 1 ¾ cups

Powdered sugar: 1cup

Baking Powder: 1tsp

Baking Soda: ¼ tsp

Salt: ¼ tsp

Eggs: 2

Refined oil: ½ cup

Cinnamon Powder: 1tbsp

Banana (chiquitta): 3

Method of Preparation

In a large bowl combine the wheat flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon. Set aside.

Mash the bananas (use ripe bananas)

In a medium-sized bowl combine the mashed bananas, eggs and oil.

With a wooden spoon, lightly fold the wet ingredients (banana mixture) into the dry ingredients just until combined and the batter is thick and chunky.

The consistency of batter is thick. (The important thing is not to over mix the batter. You do not want it smooth. Over mixing the batter will yield tough, rubbery bread.)

Pour batter into greased baking pan.

Preheat the oven and bake at 180⁰C until bread is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40 to 50 minutes.

Then remove the bread from the pan and place on a wire rack to cool and .

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