Banana Poe Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 190°C.
• Peel the bananas and mash with a fork. Add the sweetened condensed milk, eggs, nutmeg, allspice and the cinnamon. Mix well.
• Pour the mixture into the pie shell. Turn the heat of the oven down. Bake the pie for around 30 minutes. Let the pie cool.
• To serve, cut a slice and place in onto a plate. Dust with a mixture of ground cinnamon and icing sugar, serve with a spoonful of vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• Peel the bananas, cut into large slices, and place them in a large saucepan with the water and vanilla. Bring to a boil and cook 15 minutes. Drain the fruit, setting the vanilla bean aside.
• When the bananas have cooked, puree in a food processor. Add the starch and scrape vanilla seeds into the mix. Mix thoroughly so that the mixture is smooth and creamy. Fill a buttered casserole dish with the poe, and place in a 300 degree oven for 30 minutes.
• Remove poe from oven and cut into small pieces. Serve with the coconut milk or cream and sugar.

Steps:

• Prepare and bake pie crust in 9-inch pie plate as directed on package for one-crust baked shell. Cool.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in saucepan on medium heat. Add sugar; cook and stir 3 min. or until melted. Remove from heat; stir in bourbon. Cool.
• Beat pudding mix and milk in medium bowl with whisk 2 min. Stir in sour cream. Let stand 5 min.
• Slice bananas; place in crust. Top with caramel sauce, pudding mixture and COOL WHIP. Refrigerate 1 hour.

Steps:

• On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim to 1/2 in. beyond rim of plate; flute edge. Refrigerate 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 425°., Line crust with a double thickness of foil. Fill with pie weights, dried beans or uncooked rice. Bake on a lower oven rack until edge is golden brown, 20-25 minutes. Remove foil and weights; bake until bottom is golden brown, 3-6 minutes longer. Cool on a wire rack., Meanwhile, in a saucepan, combine sugar, flour and salt; stir in milk and mix well. Cook over medium-high heat until mixture is thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir for 2 minutes longer. Remove from the heat. Stir a small amount into egg yolks; return all to saucepan. Bring to a gentle boil. Cook and stir 2 minutes; remove from the heat. Add butter and vanilla; cool slightly. , Slice bananas into crust; pour filling over top. Cool on wire rack for 1 hour. Store in the refrigerator. If desired, garnish with whipped cream and additional sliced bananas.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Puree the bananas in a blender or food processor. It should yield 4 cups.
• Mix the brown sugar and arrowroot or cornstarch together. Add in the vanilla and combine with the bananas and process well. There should not be any lumps of starch. Adjust the sugar to your liking.
• Pour the mix in a buttered 2-quart baking dish.
• Bake for 30-45 minutes, or until the pudding is firm and bubbling.
• Remove from oven and allow to cool. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until well chilled.
• Once chilled, cut into cubes and place them into a large serving bowl or in individual bowls.
• Top with a dollop of coconut cream and a little more brown sugar and serve.

Steps:

• Boil the bananas in the skin for about 15 minutes. When the bananas have cooked, peel and puree with in a food processor. Add the starch, sugar, and vanilla into the mix. Mix thoroughly so that the mixture is smooth and creamy. Fill a buttered casserole dish with the poe, and place in a 300 degree oven for 30 minutes. Remove poe from oven and cut into small pieces. Serve with the coconut milk or cream.

Steps:

• Have baked 9-inch pie shell ready.
• In a large saucepan, scald the milk.
• In another saucepan, combine the sugar, flour and salt; gradually stir in the scalded milk.
• Over medium heat, stirring constantly, cook until thickened.
• Cover and, stirring occasionally, cook for two minutes longer.
• In a small bowl, have the 3 egg yolks, slightly beaten, ready; stir a small amount of the hot mixture into beaten yolks; when thoroughly combined, stir yolks into hot mixture.
• Cook for one minute longer, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat and blend in the butter and vanilla.
• Let sit until lukewarm.
• When ready to pour, slice bananas and scatter in pie shell; pour warm mixture over bananas.
• If desired, make a meringue (you'll have 3 leftover egg whites) to top the pie, or just let the pie cool until serving.

Steps:

• Peel the bananas and mash roughly. Add them to a pot along with the water. Bring to a gentle boil and cook until the bananas assume a purplish color (add more water if needed). Take off the heat and allow to cool naturally. Be careful near the end because the bananas can caramelize and/or burn. Also, the thick mixture bubbles & spurts so don't get burned!
• Combine the arrowroot & milk in a small bowl. Whisk until thoroughly combined.
• Pour the banana mixture in to a large bowl and mash with the sugar. Add the arrowroot/milk mixture & mix well.
• Butter an 8x8 baking dish and pour the mixture into this. Place in a 375F preheated oven and bake for about 35 minutes, or until set and golden brown. Take from the oven and cool.
• Take your baked poke and cut into 2" squares. Place squares into individual bowls and pour the coconut milk over the top. Allow to soak into the poke and serve.

Steps:

• Vanilla Pastry Cream: In a heavy medium saucepan, bring half and half to a a simmer.
• In a medium bowl, whisk sugar, eggs, egg yolk and flour in medium bowl to blend.
• Gradually whisk in hot half and half.
• Transfer to saucepan.
• Whisk over medium heat until mixture thickens and comes to a boil (about 5 minutes).
• Boil 1 minute.
• Pour into a medium bowl.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Press plastic unto surface of cream.
• Cover; chill until cold (about 4 hours).
• For The Crust: Butter 9-inch glass pie dish.
• In a heavy, small saucepan stir butter and chocolate over low heat.
• Mix in cookie crumbs.
• Press unto bottom and sides.
• Chill until firm (about 30 minutes).
• For Chocolate Ganache: In a medium saucepan over medium heat, heat butter and cream until hot, but do not boil.
• Remove from heat and add chocolate and vanilla.
• Whisk until smooth.
• Reserve 2 tablespoons of the ganache in a small bowl at room temperature (to be used as garnish).
• Pour remaining ganache over crust.
• Chill crust until chocolate ganache is firm (about 30 minutes).
• Assembly: Thinly slice 3 bananas.
• Arrange banana slices over chocolate.
• Whisk Vanilla Pastry Cream until smooth.
• Spread pastry cream evenly over bananas.
• Drizzle reserved chocolate ganache over pastry cream.
• Draw toothpick through pastry cream and chocolate to marbleize.
• Refrigerate until pastry cream is set (at least 3 hours and up to one day).
• Vanilla Whipped Cream: In a medium bowl, beat cream, powders sugar and vanilla extract until peaks form.
• Can be made 4 hours ahead.
• Spoon vanilla whipped cream around edges of pie or decoratively pipe cream with pastry bag.
• Slice remaining banana.
• Garnish pie with banana slices.

Steps:

• Sprinkle gelatin packets into 1/4 cup of the cold skim milk.
• Heat remaining skim milk and add the gelatin mixture to it, stirring, over low heat, until dissolved.
• Beat the egg yolks and add to the warm mixture, stirring constantly.
• When mixture thickens, add Splenda and remove from heat.
• Add vanilla and banana extracts and mix.
• Pour half of this mixture into an 8 inch pie plate.
• Arrange sliced bananas on top of that and then cover that layer with the rest of the pie mixture.
• Set aside and prepare meringue topping.
• In a bowl, beat the egg whites until frothy.
• Add the rest of the meringue ingredients and beat until stiff.
• Pile this topping on top of the pie and put under broiler until golden brown, watching carefully not to burn.
• Remove from oven and chill at least 4 hours before serving.