Quick ways with bananas

Bananas are more or less available whole year round, but we often run out of ideas how to use them. Here are a couple of classic and novel ideas.

Add baked bananas to chicken korma
For a Cuban-inspired breakfast, serve fried eggs with stir-fried bananas and chilli sauce.
Bake a banana in the skin, open up and drizzle with orange liqueur and melted white chocolate.
Add sliced banana to thinly sliced sweet potato. Pour over a packet or can of Thai green curry sauce and bake. Serve with pork fillet.
In small glasses, layer sliced banana, tinned Caramel Treat and cubes of vanilla cake. Top with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.
Make a rye sandwich with sliced banana, dates, cream cheese and pecan nuts.
Bake bananas with crushed cardamom seeds, treacle sugar, orange juice and orange flower water (available from Woolies). Eat with tagine or for breakfast with yoghurt.
Slice bananas and mix with granadilla pulp. Pour over cream.
Squeeze some lemon juice onto peeled bananas, pack them in plastic freezer bags and freeze - perfect for frozen banana daiquiris and ice-cold smoothies.

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