brown butter bananas foster
Nov. 12th, 2020 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totientI've made Bananas Foster twice now, once with all the correct ingredients and once without. Without was better, so much so that I'm going to call it a new recipe.
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) salted butter
2/3 cup white sugar
1/4 cup good dark sipping rum (I used Barbancourt 8)
3 bananas, peeled and cut lengthwise and crosswise (that is, 12 banana pieces)
In a 12" skillet, melt the butter and then cook on medium heat until it has finished bubbling and begins to brown. Stir until it is a deep caramel color and then mix in the sugar, raise heat to high, and stir until the texture is smooth. Stir in the rum and bring just to a boil. Add the bananas and scoop sauce over them to coat. Cook for 1-1.5 minutes and serve.
I tried making this with brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and so on (as other recipes call for) and it was grainy, which this version was not. I think what's going on is that other recipes are dissolving the sugar and this is melting it. Dissolving doesn't work as well when you've boiled all the water out of your butter. Anyway, the flavor notes that brown sugar and such are supposed to bring were more than covered by the good rum and the brown butter.
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) salted butter
2/3 cup white sugar
1/4 cup good dark sipping rum (I used Barbancourt 8)
3 bananas, peeled and cut lengthwise and crosswise (that is, 12 banana pieces)
In a 12" skillet, melt the butter and then cook on medium heat until it has finished bubbling and begins to brown. Stir until it is a deep caramel color and then mix in the sugar, raise heat to high, and stir until the texture is smooth. Stir in the rum and bring just to a boil. Add the bananas and scoop sauce over them to coat. Cook for 1-1.5 minutes and serve.
I tried making this with brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and so on (as other recipes call for) and it was grainy, which this version was not. I think what's going on is that other recipes are dissolving the sugar and this is melting it. Dissolving doesn't work as well when you've boiled all the water out of your butter. Anyway, the flavor notes that brown sugar and such are supposed to bring were more than covered by the good rum and the brown butter.
