Fresh Fruit Desserts Recipes - Caribbean Bananas Recipe

Ingredients

SERVES 4

• 25g/1oz butter

• B ripe bananas (peeled and halved lengthways)

• Juice of 1 lime

• 75g/3oz demarara sugar

• 1 teaspoon ground allspice

• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

• Seeds from 6 cardamoms (crushed)

• 2 tablespoons rum

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Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas mark 6. Use a little of the butter to grease a shallow baking dish large enough to hold the bananas snugly in a single layer.

2. Arrange the bananas in the dish and pour the lime juice over them.

3. Mix the sugar, allspice, ginger and cardamom seeds in a bowl. Scatter the mixture over the bananas. Dot with the remaining butter.

4. Bake, basting once, for 15 minutes, or until the bananas are soft.

5. Remove the dish from the oven. Warm the rum in a small pan, pour it over the bananas and set it alight. Serve the dessert while still hot.