Banana Kheer/Payasam

Banana is a healthy fruit ,easily avilable and very cheap indeed.This fruit which is available through out the year and we need not wait for the season.

You Need:

Ripe Banana's - 2-3 nos
Milk - 2 cups
Water - 1/2 cup
Jaggery - 1/2 cup (Powdered)
or
Sugar - 1/4 cup ( As per sweetness)
Nuts (Cashews, Badam, Raisin) - 1/4 cup
Butter/Ghee - 1tsp

Mash the riped banana's with hand so as to form a nice paste. Take a pan add 2 tsp of butter and then add the banana paste to it and fry till it turns slighty brown. Next add either jaggery/sugar to it and keep mixing properly when all the jaggery/sugar is properly mixed well. Then add milk and water to it and simmer it to cook for 5 mins. 

You can add cardammom powder if you need  flavour.  Add the butter roasted nuts to it and mix properly and bring to boil and allow it to enhance the flavour by increasing the heat and cooking for another 4 mins. Depending upon the required consistency, add milk.

Hardly take 15 min to prepare this dessert. Serve hot or chilled. Kids will love it. 

Caramelized Banana

You Need:


1 cup of sugar
6 Tablespoons of butter
1/2 cup of cream (milk will also work)
2 Table spoons of water
Banana - As per your need

Prepare the caramel sauce as per the link below and mix with banana. 

Very simple recipe for your kids. Use caramel sauce to the wide variety of recipes. 

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Caramel-Sauce

Fried Bananas - Thai Dessert

You Need:

3 bananas. The firmer the better.
1/2 cup Rice Flour (or all purpose flour)
2 tbsp Corn Starch

1/2 cup shredded Coconut
Pinch of Baking Soda
Sugar as per ur taste
1/2 cup Water
Oil for frying

Mix all these ingredients into a large bowl, prepare batter until thick. Dip each banana into the batter and coat thoroughly. Deep fry banana until it turns golden brown. Serve with delicious vanilla ice cream. 

The blend of hot & cold will be ultimate yummly.