What can be cooked from bananas? Roast, stew, bake ...


We are accustomed to feast bananas as a sweet dessert treat. However in a world of culinary practice bananas are much more diverse applications. They fry, bake and stew, as well as preparing salads, fruit drinks, chips, all kinds of side dishes to the second dish, pie fillings, puddings and apple pie.

Short, sweet yellow fruit opens a wide field for housewives experiments in the kitchen. And because in Russia that, in the past, exotic, fruit in some cities, the price is close to the potatoes, it makes sense more often consume it in food. Moreover, the bananas have a lot of useful properties.

So what can you make from bananas? Here are some simple recipes for their preparation:

• We begin, as adopted in the food, with salads. To prepare salad of bananas, cut into the fruit (preferably unripe) into slices with a thickness of 0,5 cm to mix them with soaked raisins, oatmeal and popcorn, and finely chopped lean ham. Pour dressing mixture of cream, lemon juice and peel. Withstands half an hour, all soaked, and serve on lettuce leaves.

• Continuing with our Banana menu. At the turn chicken to bananas from African cuisine. Disembowel and wash the carcass a young chicken, fry in oil until browned crust. Put it in a pot with water, add the taste of fried crushed cloves of garlic and small cubes of pork fat. Cook for 10-15 minutes, add cut into 4 pieces banana (preferably unripe). Pepper, salt and simmer for 10 more minutes. Before serving, sprinkle the table ready chicken with bananas finely chopped parsley.

• As we already mentioned, of bananas can be cooked garnish for the second dish. To do this, cut the bananas in half and lengthwise, roll in flour, then in egg and bread crumbs. Then fry in butter. Serve as a side dish to meat or poultry.

• We are approaching desserts. Cooking bananas, baked with cheese. Peeled and chopped fruit slightly an element, pepper, sprinkle with grated cheese or cheese and bread, lay on a greased baking sheet with butter and bake in the oven until browning on top or bottom.

• And finally, the pie - a traditional Russian dish, but stuffed with Ecuador. To prepare pie banana make flaky or sloeno-yeast dough (he, incidentally, can be bought at local supermarket). Dough roll out on two layers. One lines the baking butter form, over long slices Spread sliced bananas, sprinkle it with cinnamon banana mosaic, cover the second layer of dough and bake in very hot oven.

P.S. Now, a little medicine.

For diet banana - the perfect product. In addition to starch, sugar and malic acid they contain enzymes that help with the absorption of carbohydrates. In many bananas potassium salts, deducing the excess fluid from the body. Bananas have been successfully applied in the liver and gastrointestinal tract.

Found that in order to reduce fatigue, concentration and, most importantly, improve the mood you just have to eat every day a couple of bananas in any form. It is believed that the fruits of banana improve lactation in nursing mothers, and increase male sexual desire.

Include this useful fruit in your diet more often, do not be afraid to experiment in the kitchen!