In northeast Brazil, bananas or plantains are fried in butter and dusted with cinnamon-sugar as a very traditional breakfast or dessert. Yummy with vanilla ice cream as well.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 15 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 16 slices |
Ingredients
- 3 firm bananas, halved lengthwise
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 ¼ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Cut each banana half into 3 or 4 pieces.
- Mix sugar and cinnamon together in a shallow bowl.
- Melt butter in a skillet over medium-low heat; add banana slices and cook until golden brown, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer banana slices to a paper towel-lined plate. Coat banana slices, 1 at a time, with cinnamon-sugar.
- Nutrition data for this recipe includes the full amount of cinnamon-sugar. The actual amount of cinnamon-sugar consumed will vary.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 169 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 31 g |
| Cholesterol | 15 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 42 mg |
| Sugars | 24 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I cut the sugar out and just fried these with cinnamon and butter. Put them over big fluffy waffles instead of syrup. DELICIOUS!
This was delicious but honestly, I used more bananas than the recipe called for and there was still sugar left over.
I followed the recipe to a T, with the exception of only using 1 banana (just for me), so I changed the serving size to reflect that. I had plenty of sugar mixture left over so that can easily be reduced. This was surprisingly tasty,the smell of the bananas browning in the butter was just heavenly. DO make sure you use very firm bananas as they will soften and sweeten.. I can see this being a disaster if you use a ripe bananas (they will turn to mush). Mine cooked up in 10 minutes (5 on each side). I served mine as a trio on a plate to make it look more appealing. Placed some on top of melted dark chocolate and served alongside some fresh whipped cream. This would be fantastic like suggested on vanilla ice cream and you could even use the leftover butter in the pan to make a quick caramel. Would love to try this as a topping to some pancakes for a special breakfast.
Delicious! Will definitely make these again.
These may not be pretty, but they certainly were tasty served over a big scoop of vanilla ice cream, My bananas were a bit ripe, but you really do want to use very firm bananas to keep them from getting too soft. Nandabear, simple recipe, but a good one! Thanks for sharing.