The banana is a fruit with a lot of excellent properties: it contains fiber, minerals and potassium among other nutrients, and many vitamins. Therefore, it is ideal for balancing blood pressure, avoiding heartburn and fighting constipation. What are the other advantages that the banana has? Well, it’s delicious and you can make all kinds of recipes with it.
5 banana dessert ideas that you will love
The banana dessert recipes that you are going to see here are healthy, easy to make, and are extremely delicious. They are designed for a few diners but you can always adapt the quantities to your liking and the number of guests you are going to have. Let’s see them!
Nutella crepes with banana
Ingredients (for approximately 12 crepes)125 grams of flour
- 2 large eggs
- 300 grams of skimmed milk
- A pinch of salt
- A teaspoon of butter
For the filling (vary the quantity according to the tastes of each one)
- Nutella
- Bananas
- Icing sugar (optional)
Step by Step
- Sift the flour and mix with a pinch of salt. Make a hole in the center of the flour and put the lightly beaten eggs, add the milk.
- Mix with the electric rod mixer or, failing that, with a fork. Make circular movements to collect the dough that remains attached to the sides of the bowl. The dough should be uniform and without lumps.
- Heat a teaspoon of butter in a small frying pan and see adding a ladle of the dough that we have prepared. When you see that it has browned on one side, turn it over and do the same for the other.
- Repeat the process until you finish all the dough.
- For the filling, peel the bananas, cut them into small pieces and put them in the middle of the crepe. Add the chocolate or nutella to the taste of each one.
- Let them cool down for a few seconds, and eat!
Chocolate Banana Brownie
Ingredients (for a 20×20 square mold)
- 300 grams of ripe banana
- 70 grams of flour, better if it is integral
- 4 small eggs
- 15 grams of pure unsweetened cocoa powder
- 125 grams of brown sugar
- A small handful of walnuts
- Vegetable paper to cover the mold.
Step by Step
- Mix the chopped bananas, eggs and flour in a bowl with a mixer.
- Add the unsweetened cocoa powder.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees with top and bottom heat.
- Then add the brown sugar.
- Add the chopped walnuts.
- Pour the mixture into the mold and bake for 20 minutes, the brownie should be soft and fluffy.
- Let it cool, remove from the mold and cut into small squares.
- A rich scoop of vanilla ice cream can be added to this recipe. What a treat!
Fried plantain with honey
Ingredients
- 1 large banana
- 80 grams of flour
- 1 egg
- 50 milliliters of skimmed milk
- 1 tablespoon of sugar (can be brown)
- 1 tablespoon of flower honey
- 500 milliliters of olive oil (extra virgin)
Step by step
- Peel the banana and cut it into slices of approximately 2 centimeters.
- Mix the sifted flour, skimmed milk, egg and sugar in a bowl. You have to achieve a homogeneous mass.
- Pass the banana slices through the mixture as if it were a common batter.
- Heat a little olive oil in a pan and fry the plantain on both sides until golden.
- Remove the plantain from the pan and transfer it to a plate with absorbent paper to remove excess oil.
- For the presentation of this delicious dessert, put the fried plantain on a plate and cover with the honey of flowers to the taste of each one. They can be eaten warm and crunchy or they can be left to rest for a few minutes.
- The variant of this recipe is to add cinnamon to the banana instead of honey. You will see how successful it is!
Strawberry, banana and yogurt smoothie
Ingredients
- A good handful of strawberries
- A large, ripe banana
- A natural unsweetened yogurt
- A little cold or room temperature milk
- A teaspoon of vanilla extract
- A pinch of brown sugar (optional)
Step by step
- Cut the strawberries into small pieces, put them in a container and freeze them for approximately two hours.
- Take the strawberries out of the freezer and beat them with the help of the mixing glass and the electric mixer.
- Add the chopped banana and milk. We crush all the ingredients until we get a homogeneous mass.
- Now we incorporate the natural unsweetened yogurt, the sugar (optional) and the teaspoon of vanilla extract. We crush everything well until there is no piece of fruit left without beating.
- Pour the smoothie into the glasses where we are going to serve them and leave them in the fridge until they are ready to drink, so they maintain their proper temperature. Surely more than one repeat!
Spelled and banana cake with chocolate cereals
Ingredients
- 2 small eggs
- 2 very ripe bananas
- A tablespoon of olive oil
- 40 grams of date syrup
- 60 grams of skimmed milk or a vegetable drink (soy, for example)
- 140 grams of spelled flour (whole wheat)
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon of pastry yeast
- A small handful of almonds
- Chocolate cereals (can be substituted for crunchy corn cereals)
Step by step
- Separate the yolks and whites of the eggs. In a bowl, mix the yolks with the chopped bananas, olive oil, date syrup and milk or vegetable drink.
- In another bowl we put the whites until stiff.
- Separately, we are going to mix sifted spelled flour with cinnamon and pastry yeast.
- Add the first mixture of yolks, bananas and other ingredients to the bowl where we have the flour, cinnamon and yeast. Next, we add the whites mounted. To do this, we will have to mix making enveloping and soft movements.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees with top and bottom heat.
- Once the dough is homogeneous and without lumps, grease a mold with a little olive oil, we can sprinkle it with flour so that the dough does not stick to the base of the mold.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. After this time, we will have to check that the cake is done, for this we click with a toothpick, if it comes out clean it is ready, if not we will let it bake for a few more minutes.
- Let cool for a few minutes, remove the cake from the mold and decorate with the chocolate cereals on top. Raise your hand if you want to try a piece