Grilled Bananas with Rum sauce
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- 6 ripe bananas
- 80g butter plus extra
- 200g brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- Pinch of nutmeg
- 225ml dark rum
- Vanilla ice cream
Method
- STEP 1Peel the bananas and cut in half lengthwise. Melt a bit of butter in a frying pan.
- STEP 2Cook bananas over direct high heat 4-6 minutes, turning once.
- STEP 3Melt the remaining butter in a heavy sauce pan over medium heat. Add the brown sugar, the cinnamon, and nutmeg, and cook until the sugar dissolves, stirring constantly. Add rum and gently move the pan around to warm the rum, causing it to flame. Continue cooking until the flame dies out. Add the grilled bananas to the hot rum mixture and cook 3-4 minutes more.
- STEP 4To serve, place a large scoop of vanilla ice cream onto each of 6 serving dishes. Place 2 banana halves over the ice cream and drizzle with some of the sauce.