Best Bananas Flambe Recipes

BANANAS FLAMBE

Steps:

• Remove 4 strips orange zest with a vegetable peeler. Squeeze the orange and strain the juice.
• Melt the butter with the sugar, orange zest and vanilla bean in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook, stirring, until the sugar caramelizes, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the liqueur, orange juice and a pinch of salt.
• Return the skillet to medium heat, add the bananas, cut-side down, and cook until glazed and golden, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and divide among bowls.
• Add the rum to the pan and return to medium heat. Warm for a few seconds without stirring, then carefully tilt the pan so the rum ignites (if using an electric stove, hold a lit match near the sauce to ignite it). Spoon the flaming sauce over the bananas. Garnish with whipped cream and the glazed orange zest.

BANANAS FLAMBE

Steps:

• Take 2 ripe, but not soft bananas and cut in half, then split lengthwise. Melt a few Tablespoons butter over medium heat. Add 2-3 Tablespoons brown sugar and stir.
• Add bananas.
• Cook until fairly warm and starting to soften (about 1 min.). Flip bananas and allow to cook an additional 30 seconds.
• Add rum to taste, and swirl in pan a bit. Allow to thicken slightly, remove from heat and serve.

BANANAS FLAMBé

Steps:

• Melt butter in a medium skillet over low heat. Add brown sugar and cinnamon; stir frequently and cook until sugar dissolves and sauce is thick, about 3 minutes. Add banana liqueur.
• Slice bananas in half lengthwise and gently place in the skillet. Cook for 1 minute, then gently turn and cook until brown and soft, about 1 to 2 minutes more.
• Add coffee-flavored liqueur and cook until hot, 1 to 2 minutes. Tip the skillet slightly and ignite the rum with a lighter. Remove skillet from the heat.
• Scoop ice cream into 4 bowls. Add a banana to each bowl and pour warm sauce over top. Serve immediately.

BOOZY BANANAS FLAMBE

Steps:

• Cut bananas in half crosswise, and then lengthwise. Toss with lemon juice, and set aside.
• Combine margarine and brown sugar in a large skillet; cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, 1 minute or until sugar melts. Add bananas; cook 2 minutes.
• Turn bananas, and cook an additional 2 minutes. Sprinkle with cinnamon, and remove from heat. Heat rum in a small saucepan just until warm; remove from heat, and ignite. Pour over banana mixture and let flames die down. Serve immediately over ice milk.

MEXICAN BANANAS FLAMBE WITH ICE CREAM (PLATANOS FLAMEADOS)

Steps:

• Put scoops of Ice cream in four dishes and keep in the freezer until serving.
• Just before serving melt butter (margarine) in a 10 inch skillet over medium heat Stir in the sugar.
• Add Orange juice & Lime juice.
• Cook stirring frequently until the sauce has thickened 6-8 minutes.
• Add Kahlua.
• Add bananas to the sauce, cook turning the bananas gently, heat just through and turn in the sauce so they are all coated evenly.
• Heat the rum in a small saucepan over low heat for about 1 minute or until just warm (Do not allow to bubble).
• Pour rum over the hot banana mixture, immediately ignite (use a long match).
• Stir with long handle spoon until flame subside.
• Place bananas around the ice cream and spoon sauce over all.
• Serve immediately.

BAKED BANANAS WITH STRAWBERRY FLAMBE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Peel bananas and arrange them, whole, side by side in a buttered baking dish.
• Spread the butter on top of the bananas.
• Rinse and hull the strawberries.
• Arrange them in rows in the spaces between the bananas.
• Sprinkle brown sugar over the berries and bananas.
• Bake for 25 minutes, or until the bananas are cooked through.
• Don't overbake.
• To serve, warm the Grand Marnier and pour it over the bananas and berries.
• Light immediately.
• For the most impressive effect, do this at the table with the lights dim so the flame will show.
• Serve as soon as the fire goes out.

BAKED BANANAS FLAMBE

Steps:

• Halve bananas and place in a small baking dish. Dot with butter and sprinkle with apple juice concentrate, cinnamon and nutmeg. Pour orange juice over all. Bake lightly covered 15 minutes at 375 degrees. To serve, place bananas in dessert dishes. Top with fresh fruits. Combine the Triple Sec and Run and heat slowly. Light with a match and pour flaming liquid over individual dishes. When the flame subsides, drop on one scoop of vinilla ice cream. Serves 2.

MALIBU BANANAS FLAMBE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a small saucepan, melt butter and then add in the brown sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon and nutmeg. Take off heat as soon as it all combines and melts together; it will take a minute or less.
• Spray Pam on the bottom of a glass/ceramic 9x9 baking dish.
• Cut bananas in half and then in half again (so in quarters) and place them cut side down in the dish.
• Sprinkle the nuts over and around the bananas.
• Drizzle the butter/sugar mixture over the bananas and nuts.
• Bake uncovered approximately 10 minutes, or until sauce is warm and bubbly. Remove from oven.
• Heat rum until warm, remove from the stove/flame. With the saucepan out in front of you (don't look down into the pan while you do this or you might loose some eyebrows), ignite the rum and pour over top the bananas. Wait for the flames to go out, then serve them up by themselves or on top of vanilla ice cream.

BANANAS FLAMBE WITH COCONUT SORBET

Steps:

• In a large saute pan melt butter over high heat. Sprinkle sugar evenly over butter and scatter banana slices over sugar in a single layer. Allow mixture to boil vigorously undisturbed until sugar melts and bananas caramelize on bottom.
• Remove from heat and pour rum into pan. Carefully light rum in pan, standing back to avoid flame, and allow flame to burn out, 30 seconds.
• Divide sorbet and bananas between four bowls, top with toasted coconut and a squeeze of lime juice, and serve immediately.

BANANAS FLAMBE

Steps:

• In saucepan, melt butter and sugar with cinamon. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally until golden brown (about 3 min.) Cut bananas into 1/2 inch thick slices and add to saucepan. Heat through. Do not overcook. Heat rum until just warm, pour slowly over slices, and ignite. Do not stir. Spoon mixture over ice cream. Enjoy