Don't want to wait for your bananas to ripen? Try this recipe. It means "green banana" Sorry, couldn't find a good recipe online. You can do a search and come up with many using coconut milk, but this recipe is the palagi way, or white people way. Either way it is yumm-o but this one is my favorite....
Start with Green Bananas. Yes, just a regular banana that is very green and hard. If it has any hint of yellow, it is too ripe for this recipe and will be gross.
Soak them in very hot water for a few minutes (helps to peel them) Take them one by one and run a butter knife down the length. Then pull the husk/skin off. Make sure you get all of it off, otherwise it turns black. You can scrape them a little with a butter knife if you want.
After they are all peeled, boil them in water until they are tender. (poke them with a fork) They are very starchy like a potato. You want the tenderness of a boiled potato. MAKE SAUCE (recipe below) WHILE THEY ARE BOILING!
Drain water off.
Add sauce immediately to the drained bananas in the hot pan and stir around a little until they are coated. The pan doesn't need to be on the heat, just hot from boiling the fai. It will thicken up almost like spaghetti sauce and turn yellow. That's it! Now for the sauce....
This is little tricky. It's a little of this and that and taste it. Here goes a try to describe it....
A glop of mayo. Maybe 1/2 cup for a regular bunch of bananas. We got three tonight, right?, maybe a 1/4 c.
Same amount of milk. Stir it good. Should be fairly thin.
The next ingredients are per taste. Salt and Curry Powder. It should have a hint of brownish yellow before the sauce hits the pan and hot banana from the curry. Maybe 1/2 tsp. or 1/4 tsp. Stir it up, taste, etc. That's it!
I like a lot of sauce with mine. Yum. It's almost potato salad-ish. Definantly not sweet as you would think a banana dish may be. email any questions...
smartmoneymom@gmail.com Good Luck!
