I love cooked bananas. I am fond of frying up a few bananas in butter and adding dark brown sugar and a little rum for a delicious treat - my own simple version of Bananas Foster one could say. Well, in the last few weeks I've been feeling the need for comfort food, but even the rather benign step of melting butter in a frying pan (thus requiring the washing of a dirty pan) was beyond me. Step-in my latest use of the microwave.
This is barely a recipe, but the result is delicious so I'm posting it here, despite its shortcomings, as an excercise in sharing. I would hate to think that anyone might miss out on such warm sweet delights for lack of information.
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Lazy Banana Pudding
2 ripe bananas, sliced
1/4 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 tablespoon unsalted butter
a pinch of sea salt
1 tablespoon rum.
Combine everything in a roomy microwave safe bowl, cover with an inverted plate - or whatever cover you prefer and microwave on high for 4-5 minutes.
Remove from microwave and stir to combine.
If you prefer you can reserve the salt until the bananas are cooked and then sprinkle the top of the pudding with the pinch of salt. The pudding is certainly on the sweet side and the touch of salt sprinkled across the top is rather reminiscent of those popular salted carmels - the salt makes the sweetness even better and more interesting.
Serve with milk or cream.
Serves: Well, it really could serve two, but I'm afraid most of the time it serves just one.
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