Supreme Bananas Foster Recipes

Steps:

• Prepare a grill for medium-high heat.
• Heat a cast-iron skillet over direct heat. Melt the butter until it begins to brown, then stir in the sugar and cinnamon until the sugar melts. Stir in the salt. Add the bananas in an even layer and cook, turning the bananas once to coat in the sauce, until lightly browned, 1 to 2 minutes per side.
• Remove the skillet from the heat and add the rum. Light the sauce with a lighter and allow it to flame. Once the flames have extinguished, baste the bananas with the sauce. Add the orange zest. Serve warm over vanilla ice cream.
• (Alternatively, you can cook the bananas over medium-high heat on a stovetop.)

Steps:

• Peel the bananas and slice them about 1 inch thick on a long bias. Heat the sugar, butter and cinnamon together in a medium skillet over medium heat until bubbling. Add the bananas and stir gently to coat. Add the rum and carefully ignite the alcohol with a stick lighter. Step back and let the alcohol burn off. Continue to cook, stirring gently, until the sauce has thickened a little bit and the bananas are slightly softened, 1 to 2 minutes. Divide the bananas and sauce between 2 small bowls. Top with ice cream and serve immediately.

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a heavy skillet over a medium-high heat. Add the brown sugar. Stir together and cook for a minute or two. Pour in the cream and stir it around to combine.
• Peel the bananas and slice them on the bias inside the peel. Drop the slices into the pan. Next, add the chopped nuts and stir them into the sauce. Then - and this is where you need to be a little careful - stir in the rum. Let it start to bubble, and then carefully use a long lighter to ignite it. (Be sure to have a lid handy in case you need to extinguish the flame.) Let the fire burn and go out (it'll only take about 30 seconds or so), and then stir in the cinnamon at the end. You may also cook the mixture without flambeing it.
• Spoon it over a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream and enjoy immediately.
• Spoon bananas Foster over French toast, waffles or crepes. Substitute peaches, pears or cherries for the bananas. Of course, then it probably wouldn't be considered bananas Foster.

Steps:

• In a large skillet or flambé pan, melt butter over medium-low heat. Stir in brown sugar and cinnamon until combined. Cut each banana lengthwise and then widthwise into quarters; add to butter mixture. Cook, stirring gently, for 3-5 minutes or until glazed and slightly softened. Stir in creme de cacao; heat through., In a small saucepan, heat rum over low heat until vapors form on surface. Carefully ignite rum and slowly pour over bananas, coating evenly. , Leaving skillet or pan on the cooking surface, gently shake pan back and forth until flames are completely extinguished; serve over ice cream.

Steps:

• In a large, deep skillet over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in sugar, rum, vanilla and cinnamon. When mixture begins to bubble, place bananas and walnuts in pan. Cook until bananas are hot, 1 to 2 minutes. Serve at once over vanilla ice cream.

Steps:

• Scoop ice cream into 2-3 individual serving dishes (depending on how large you want each serving to be) and place in freezer. The ice cream should be firm and the serving pieces should be ice cold by the time you are ready to make the dessert.
• Pre-chill the bananas in the refrigerator. Do not use overly ripe bananas. The peel should be smoothly yellow with minimal spots or browning.
• If you'll be using the orange zest, go ahead and do that now (it won't take much, probably 4-5 swipes on a medium orange) and set aside.
• Over medium heat, melt butter in an 8-9" sauté pan. Do not brown or overheat the butter.
• Once melted, add the brown sugar and stir until dissolved.
• As the sugar begins to caramelize, add the créme de banane and triple sec. Stir to blend everything smoothly. Reduce heat to its lowest setting.
• Peel and slice bananas into the sauce. This can be done with as much or as little flair as you desire. This is definitely a dessert whose incredible taste is enhanced by the style of its preparation, so I always like to make a bit of a show of it.
• Increase heat back to medium and cook the sliced bananas for about 2 minutes, until they become softened and glossy in appearance.
• In the final seconds of their cooking, retrieve the dishes of ice cream from the freezer. They should be frosty cold.
• Increase the heat to medium high and have a long-reach lighter ready in your hand. Pour the 151-proof rum into the pan, wait a beat, then ignite. Watch those eyebrows! If you are a practiced cook, and are using a gas burner, you can ignite the rum vapors by tilting the sauté pan slightly into the burner flame.
• Once the alcohol is burned off, which will only take a few seconds, turn off the burner and spoon the bananas and sauce over the scoops of ice cream. This should yield 3 small desserts or 2 decent-sized ones. It's a very sweet and rich dessert, so small portions are not a bad thing!
• If you want to add a small pinch of orange zest, do so immediately before serving.

Steps:

• Slice the bananas in half lengthwise and brush with the lemon juice. Melt the butter with the sugar in a flat chafing dish or 10-inch skillet. Add the bananas and sauté until just tender. Sprinkle with the cinnamon.
• Remove from the heat and add liqueur and rum. Carefully ignite with a long match. Use a large long-handled spoon to baste the bananas with the warm liquid until the flame burns out.
• Divide the ice cream among four dishes. Top each one with a banana half and some of the sauce. Serve immediately.