Bananas Foster from Brennan’s New Orleans

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Can’t make it to the French Quarter? Convey a style of the French Quarter to you! A basic New Orleans deal with, bananas foster is severely unbelievable – and severely straightforward to make. With wealthy flavors of banana, brown sugar, and a contact of rum served over creamy vanilla bean ice cream, each chew of this dish is pure decadence.

Rich bananas foster topped with scoops of vanilla ice cream in a large pan.

Earlier than You Get Began

This course of is quite a lot of enjoyable and amazingly spectacular – however it may also be very harmful. You’re fairly actually enjoying with hearth while you make bananas foster, so use warning, and perhaps have a lid or hearth extinguisher useful.
Not an enormous drinker? You solely want 2 ounces of banana liqueur and a couple of ounces of darkish rum for this recipe, so go for a mini bottle (a.okay.a. airplane bottle) of every! That approach, you don’t find yourself with a ton of leftover liquor you received’t use.

The way to Make This Recipe

See recipe card beneath for full record of measurements, substances, and directions.

Begin with the bottom.

Soften butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon collectively in a big flambé pan or heavy skillet. Be sure you don’t let the butter or the sugar burn! Hold stirring or whisking the substances collectively till they’re simply integrated, then add within the banana liqueur.

Cheryl’s Tip: In case you don’t have a flambé pan, you don’t must rush out and purchase one only for this recipe. I imply, you’ll be able to if you wish to, I received’t cease you! Virtually any massive, heavy-bottomed skillet or sauté pan will work, although. Simply don’t use a non-stick skillet! The non-stick coating isn’t designed to deal with the excessive temp of alcohol on hearth.

Add the bananas.

Toss the quartered bananas into the pan and sauté them till they’re simply comfortable – not mushy! Hold the combination shifting whereas they sauté so the bananas don’t keep on with the pan and the sugar doesn’t burn.

En Flambé!

You should utilize a protracted hearth lighter to ignite the dish, or you should utilize the flame of your fuel range. I’ve included the method for each strategies down beneath! Whichever approach you select to set your rum ablaze, be so very cautious, particularly if that is your first time attempting it. The flame could have some top, so plan accordingly.

a la mode.

Let the flame (and the oohs and ahhs) die down, then stir or toss the banana combination to assist all of the alcohol burn off, ensuring all of the banana quarters are well-coated within the sauce. While you’re prepared, spoon the bananas into serving bowls with scoops of vanilla ice cream, cowl the whole lot with that incredible bananas foster sauce, then dig in!

What I Love About This Recipe

Bananas foster has lengthy been one among my favourite desserts. Comfortable bananas; a wealthy, heat, lavish sauce; and candy, creamy vanilla ice cream – what’s to not love?!
The alcohol within the sauce burns off, leaving you with deep, decadent flavors of banana and caramel and little-to-no booze.
You possibly can simply scale bananas foster up or down relying on the variety of folks you’re attempting to ~~impress~~ feed. Simply be sure to’ve obtained a skillet massive sufficient, or work in batches to maintain issues manageable (and secure).

The draw back to creating bananas foster at house relatively than ordering it at Brennan’s is you miss out on the AMAZING table-side preparation. It’s such an unbelievable expertise, having bananas and rum flambéed proper subsequent to you on this beautiful restaurant whereas listening to all concerning the historical past of the dish. In case you ever have the possibility to expertise it, you merely must. Within the meantime? Bananas foster at house it’s!

Recipe Variations

Virgin Foster: In the midst of a dry January? Cooking for kiddos? Simply not huge on alcohol? You truly can make bananas foster non-alcoholic! Exchange the banana liqueur and the darkish rum with 4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract and a pinch of salt. You possibly can add these to the pan together with the brown sugar and cinnamon. Skip the flambé completely since there’s no alcohol to burn off! As a substitute, simply simmer the whole lot till the bananas are comfortable, then go straight to plating.

Making modifications to a recipe may end up in recipe failure. Any substitutions or variations listed are easy modifications that I consider will work on this recipe, however outcomes should not assured.