Appealing Bananas Calypso Recipes

CALYPSO COOLER

Steps:

• Pour the rum, schnapps, and orange juice into a cocktail shaker over ice. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Pour into a chilled glass, pour in the grenadine syrup, and garnish with the orange slice and maraschino cherries to serve.

BANANAS CALYPSO

Steps:

• In a small bowl combine sugar, melted butter, lime juice, and cinnamon.
• Brush bananas with about 1/4 cup of butter mixture.
• Place bananas on center of cooking grate.
• Grill 2 to 4 minutes, turning once halfway through grilling.
• Slice grilled bananas and place slices in a flameproof dish.
• Pour remaining 1/2 cup butter mixture into dish.
• Place dish on center of cooking grate.
• Cook 5 minutes.
• Remove dish from grill.
• Quickly pour rum over bananas.
• Light rum with long kitchen matches.
• After flames die out, serve immediately over ice cream.

CALYPSO BLACK BEAN SOUP

Steps:

• Place the olive oil in a deep, heavy pot, and heat over medium-high heat. Stir in the onion, garlic, and 1 red pepper; cook until onion is transparent, about 5 minutes. Stir in the black beans. Add the mango, banana, cumin, ginger, and hot pepper sauce; stir and cook until fruit softens. Pour in the coconut milk and vegetable broth. Bring soup mixture to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low, and simmer until liquid reduces, about 1 hour. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Place soup in batches into a blender, and blend until smooth; or use a stick blender to blend in the soup pot. Serve garnished with dollops of sour cream and sprinkled with red bell pepper.

BANANAS CALYPSO

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan with a fireproof handle over Direct Medium heat, melt the butter. Add the sugar, lime juice, and cinnamon. Stir to dissolve the sugar. Remove from the grill.Brush the bananas with about 1/4 cup of the butter mixture, leaving the rest in the pan. Grill the bananas over Direct Medium heat until well marked, 2 to 4 minutes, turning once halfway through grilling time.Transfer the bananas to a work surface, slice on the bias, and add to the remaining butter mixture in the saucepan. Grill over Direct Medium heat, stirring gently, until the bananas are hot, 4 to 5 minutes. Remove from the grill.Immediately add the rum and carefully light it with a long kitchen match. After the flames die out, serve the warm grilled bananas with rum sauce over the ice cream.From Weber's Big Book of Grilling. Copyright © 2001 Weber-Stephen Products Co. All rights reserved. First published by Chronicle Books LLC, San Francisco, California.

CALYPSO BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8x10-inch baking pan.
• Cook and stir dates, chocolate, water, white sugar, and 1/4 cup butter in a heavy saucepan over medium-low heat until melted and thickened, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla extract. Set aside to cool.
• Beat brown sugar and 3/4 cup butter together in a bowl until creamy. Add oats, flour, walnuts, baking soda, and salt; stir until texture is crumbly.
• Press half the oat mixture into bottom of the prepared pan. Evenly spread chocolate-date mixture over oat mixture layer; crumble remaining oat mixture over chocolate-date layer.
• Bake in the preheated oven until topping is lightly browned, about 30 minutes. Cut into 30 small squares.

CALYPSO MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a saucepan, bring water to a boil. stir in oats, and cook 1 minute. Cover, and remove from heat; allow to cool.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease and flour a muffin pan, or use paper liners.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, bran, sugar, baking powder, and nutmeg. Make a well in the center, and add mashed banana, cooked and cooled oatmeal, egg, pineapple, coconut milk, and coconut extract. Mix until smooth. Scoop into 12 muffin cups.
• Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until golden brown, and tops spring back when lightly tapped.