I like to make banana milk with those really brown bananas. In fact, I let them age just so they are nice and sweet.
I take 1 or 2 bananas, break them in chunks and put them in a measuring cup that holds around 1L, add a bit of vanilla extract, fill with milk to cover banana chunks, blend with a stick blender until smooth, fill milk to the top, blend a bit more just to mix everything, done. Serves one (me) or two (regular) people.
Bananas act as egg substitutes. Add to any sweet baked thing, like waffles or pancakes.
Edit: peel them first, and put them on a plate in the freezer before you stick them in a freezer bag. It's much less intimidating when you don't have to deal with peeling a shitty slimy frozen banana.
Haha, I took this post as motivation to finally use up those frozen bananas I had. Now I have banana bread muffins in my freezer instead. It's a good upgrade if you ask me.
The key to amazing banana bread is to make it with soft, brown sugar. The stuff that is clumpy, glistening with moisture, reminiscent of molasses. It adds so much to the flavor. And actual nuts, of course.
I do in fact use unrefined, brown cane sugar, although I have not tried panela specifically.
The one I use pretty much looks like this:
It's an organic fair trade brand, but I'd have to look up where it is imported from.
As I said, I can't imagine making it with any other kind of sugar any more. Sorghum seems like an interesting idea, might have to experiment with that.
I have a female friend that just sprinkles cinnamon on it and mashes them with a fork and says it’s delicious. Yeah she’s crazy. I suggested putting some palm olive on it so it would make easier to scrape it into the garbage bin
Yeah, but it tastes like ripe bananas with cinnamon. I also tried making banana ice cream (only ripe bananas, and stir it while it freezes. Didn’t become a fan.
I just opted for not buying bananas
My research showed that even 1µg of banana is enough to make the whole damn smoothie taste like nothing but banana so I leave them out of my smoothies.
There is a snack called appam made with wheat/rice flour, which calls for overripe bananas. For this level of browned bananas, you probably don't even need to add sugar seperately.
I don't make banana bread very often because I make a damn good banana bread from a recipe my mother showed me (that I'm certain she got online) and I have absolutely zero self control, so the entire load will be gone in two to three days.