Thai Bananas in Coconut Milk

 I love this Thai dessert. I have made it several times but it never made it to my blog! I would say most people would like it cause it is so soft and delicate. Amazingly I had all the ingredients at home, so I thought: it's the day.

INGREDIENTS:
-1 Can of coconut milk (400 ml).

-4 large bananas.

-2 tablespoons of super fine sugar (caster sugar).

-a pinch of salt.

-the juice of half an orange.

-about 6 or 7 leaves of mint chopped up.

-4 tablespoons of toasted nuts.

STEPS:

1. Slice up the bananas and place in a pot with coconut milk, sugar and the salt.

2. For 5 minutes heat up, stirring gently until it boils. Quickly remove from heat (or the bananas will get way too soggy).

3. Now add the orange juice and the mint leaves chopped up.

4. Decorate with the toasted nuts, that you have previously toasted for 3 minutes.

That's it. Very good and you can serve it cold or hot. It's a great natural dessert. I love the way Thai desserts are so natural.

            

Super easy and forgiving Banana Bread

Last summer I made this fantastic banana bread recipe that I have not been able to forget. Luckily I took some cool photos.

It was from Kitchn, I gotta say this site has pretty great stuff.  This recipe is very forgiving, so see my kind of recipe, you can change slightly ingredients and it still works. You can change white for brown sugar, add one more banana or one less, add water instead of milk, or yoghurt or kefir, put one less egg, that is what a forgiving recipe is you all.  Of course, like with ALL american recipes, I cut the sugar of this recipe, cause it called for 200 grams and I added 100 grams or 150, can't remember, but anyway add 100 and if it needs more add more.  And it was seriously real good. 

Here it is:

INGREDIENTS: 

-120 grams of butter.
-100 grams of sugar (no more because with bananas it's already got sugar!).
-2 large eggs.
-60 ml of milk or yoghurt or kefir.

-1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

-3 bananas.

-480 mg of flour (2 american cups)

-1 teaspoon of baking soda.

-1/4 teaspoon of salt.

-1/2 cup of nuts or chocolate chips (optional).

STEPS:

1. Melt the butter in the microwave and then add the sugar and stir.

2. Add the eggs, the milk and the vanilla and whisk all together.

3. Now in slices or already smashed add the bananas. You can then leave small chunks or "dissolve" it completely, kinda making it dissapear. I like the first option better.

4. Now add flour, baking soda and salt and combine until the flour dissappears.

5. Lastly add the nuts or chocolate tips.

6. Turn oven on and prepare batter into the dish with some baking paper that will resolve all your problems about stickiness, cleaning containers, etc.

7. Place in oven for about 1 hour, in about 180 degrees, fire only from botton, never grill. 

8. It is ready when the top becomes brown and it breaks a little like a peak of a mountain and you stick a knife and comes out clean.

Oh so good! the question now becomes: how not to gobble it in one day.

Banana Bread

We are having some real cold days in Madrid and all I want to do is curl up with my computer, books, and cook the winter classics.

So here is a pretty good recipe, perfect for winter days, that I got down at a Thanksgiving party in Madrid this fall. The girl who gave it to me said it was jewish!
I don't think there is anything really jewish about it, but it is quite good and super easy....for a long time I have looked for a banana bread recipe for dummies, that you just can't spoil, and really, it's very difficult to mess this one up.


Ingredients:

1. One cup and 1/4 of flour, or 125grs.
2. Two eggs.
3. 1 loaded teaspoon of baking powder (levadura)
4. 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
5. 1/4 cup of sugar, or 4 spoonful.
6. 4 spoonful of margarine
or 1/4 cup.
6. 3 small bananas or 2 big ones.
7. A cup of walnuts o un buen puñado.

STEPS:

1. Mix the flour, eggs, baking soda, salt, and sugar. It becomes a really thick paste.
2. Add the bananas to the mix. The softer the bananas are the better.
3. Add the walnuts.
4. Grease the "baking tray", with butter and then sprinkle with flour.
5. On to the oven for 30 mins or 35, at 180 degrees, only button rack!!! not grill!

That's it!  Enjoy. I used this "molde de corona", because it distributes the heat very evenly but maybe you could try another type of baking container and let me know how it went.

 What do you think? I think this recipe is a keeper. I brought it the other day to my friend's dinner and they loved it :)