Pistachio and toffee bananas

  • Portion size: Serves 6
  • Hands on time 25 mins, plus setting
  • Difficulty: easy

A delicious spin on the old promenade classic; toffee-apples. This would also work well with chopped peanuts or hazelnuts.

If some of your bananas are over-ripe, use them in this tasty banana bread recipe. 

 

 

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Ingredients

  • 6 small bananas, called bananitos or apple-bananas
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 50g shelled pistachios, chopped
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Method

  1. Peel the bananas and push a wooden lolly stick lengthways into each one.
  2. To make the caramel, put the caster sugar in a medium, deep saucepan with 4 tablespoons of water and heat gently, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Raise the heat and bubble rapidly to make a clear, golden caramel. Immediately remove the pan from the heat and allow the bubbles to subside.
  3. Meanwhile, line a baking sheet with non-stick baking paper. Taking each banana, hold the tip of the stick and carefully dip the banana in the caramel – tilt the pan to get a good coating. Hold each over a plate in case it drips, and scatter with some chopped pistachios. Set aside on the baking sheet to set briefly. Eat within 1 hour, before the caramel becomes too sticky.
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Nutrition

  • 279kcals Calories
  • 5g (0.7g saturated) Fat
  • 3g Protein
  • 59g (56.8g sugars) Carbs
  • Trace salt Salt

Quick wins & tips

If you have time, skin the pistachios so that the wonderful green of the nut is not obscured by the brown husks – just place them in a bowl, cover with hot water, leave for a minute, drain and rub off the skins with a clean towel.

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