Banana Walnut Spring Rolls With Caramel Rum Sauce Recipes

CARAMELIZED BANANA WITH RUM SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then sauté banana, cut sides down, shaking skillet, 1 minute. Remove skillet from heat (away from flame) and sprinkle brown sugar around banana, then pour rum around banana. Return skillet to heat and continue to sauté, shaking skillet occasionally, until sugar begins to melt, about 30 seconds.
• Add water, nutmeg, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt and cook over moderate heat, shaking skillet occasionally, until sauce is slightly thickened, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Serve banana hot, sprinkled with nuts.

RUM BANANA SAUCE

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine the brown sugar, butter, cream and maple syrup. Cook and stir over medium heat until sauce is smooth, 4-5 minutes. Stir in bananas; heat through. Remove from the heat; stir in extract. Serve with ice cream.

BANANA SPRING ROLLS

Steps:

• Preheat the oil in a deep-fryer or large cast-iron skillet to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Peel bananas, and slice them in half lengthwise, then crosswise into fourths. Place one piece of banana diagonally across the corner of a spring roll wrapper, and sprinkle with brown sugar to taste. Roll from the corner to the center, then fold top and bottom corners in, and continue rolling. Dip your finger in water and brush the last edge to seal. Repeat with remaining banana pieces.
• Fry a few banana rolls at a time in the hot oil until evenly browned. Remove to paper towels to drain. Serve hot or cold.

BANANA-WALNUT SPRING ROLLS WITH CARAMEL-RUM SAUCE

Steps:

• Make sauce:
• Stir sugar and 1/2 cup water in heavy medium saucepan over medium-low heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat and boil until syrup turns deep amber, brushing down sides of pan with wet pastry brush and swirling pan occasionally, about 12 minutes. Reduce heat to low. Add cream (mixture will bubble vigorously) and stir until caramel bits dissolve. Remove from heat. Mix in rum. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Chill. Before serving, rewarm over low heat, stirring occasionally.)
• Make rolls:
• Arrange 4 spring roll wrappers on work surface (keep remainder covered). Place 1 banana piece diagonally across 1 corner of each wrapper. Brush opposite corner with water. Drizzle each banana with 1 teaspoon caramel sauce, 1 teaspoon toffee bits and 1 teaspoon walnuts. Fold in wrapper corner closest to banana. Roll wrapper over banana once, then fold in sides and roll up as for egg roll, pressing ends to seal. Repeat filling and rolling remaining wrappers. (Can be made 2 hours ahead. Cover and chill.)
• Pour enough oil into heavy large saucepan to reach depth of 3 inches. Heat oil to 375°F. Working in batches, fry rolls in oil until deep golden brown, turning frequently, about 3 minutes per batch. Using slotted spoon, transfer rolls to paper towels and drain. Arrange 2 rolls on each plate. Sift powdered sugar over. Sprinkle with five-spice powder. Drizzle caramel sauce around rolls and serve.

"MONKEY ROLLS": BANANA SPRING ROLLS WITH SPICED CHOCOLATE SAUCE, PEANUTS, AND TOASTED COCONUT

Steps:

• For the chocolate sauce mix in a medium size bowl the chocolate syrup with the peanut butter and chile powder. Place the water in a flat cake pan large enough to lay the rice paper sheets flat. Lay out 2 paper towels side by side. Soak rice paper sheets 2 at a time in the water for 1 minute then transfer to the paper towels with the sheets overlapping 30 percent. Cover with paper towels and continue until you have 8 sets of two-rice paper circles. In the center of the bottom 1/3 of the rice paper place 2 pieces of banana and liberally drizzle and sprinkle chocolate sauce, peanuts and coconut over the bananas. Fold over the edges and snugly roll them up in the shape of egg rolls. Place them seam side down on a plate and continue until you have 8 spring rolls. Serve them cut in 1/2 or whole.

GRILLED BANANAS AND APRICOTS WITH WALNUT COOKIES AND CARAMEL RUM SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Put all dry ingredients in a food processor, including walnuts and pulse until combined. Whisk together the egg yolk and water in a small bowl. Add the butter to the dry ingredients and cut the butter into the mixture by pulsing. Add the yolk and water and pulse until the dough just comes together. Remove dough to a flat surface and gently knead until it comes together into a cohesive mass. Wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to 1/8-inch thickness. Cut the dough into 4-inch circles. Transfer the circles to a baking sheet and bake until lightly browned, about 12 to15 minutes. Let cool on a baking rack.
• Melt the butter in a small saucepan on top of the grill. Add the sugar, cinnamon and salt and pepper and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Sprinkle fruit with salt and pepper. Grill the fruit on both sides, brushing with the butter mixture, until just cooked through. Remove the fruit to a platter.
• Combine sugar and water. Cook over medium heat until sugar caramelizes to a dark golden brown. Slowly add the butter, then cream and whisk until smooth. Strain the sauce into a bowl and whisk in the rum. Keep warm.
• Arrange grilled fruit on top of the cookies. Drizzle with the sauce and serve with vanilla ice cream or freshly whipped cream.

BANANA CREAM PIE WITH RUM CARAMEL SAUCE

Steps:

• To make custard, bring milk to a boil over medium heat.
• If using vanilla bean, add it, cover the pan and leave over low heat to infuse for 10-15 minutes.
• Alternatively, add vanilla extract after milk boils.
• Meanwhile, whisk egg yolks with sugar until creamy.
• Whisk in flour.
• Mix until well blended.
• Strain milk, stirring gradually into egg yolk mixture.
• Beat together.
• Return mixture to a clean pot.
• Bring to boil, stirring constantly.
• If lumps form as it thickens, whisk until custard is smooth.
• Bring to boil and then simmer 1 minute.
• Cool to room temperature and put plastic wrap on top of custard to that a skin doesn't form.
• For caramel sauce, combine water and sugar in small, heavy, deep pot.
• Place over high heat.
• Boil, without stirring, until golden caramel colour (About 7 minutes).
• Remove from heat and immediately stir in cream and rum carefully because mixture will bubble up.
• Set aside to cool.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine crushed cookies and butter and pat into 9" pie plate.
• Bake 10 minutes and cool.
• To assemble: Combine bananas, rum and sugar.
• When custard is cold, fold bananas into it.
• Spoon into ginger crust.
• Serve drizzed with caramel sauce.

STRAWBERRY BANANA SPRING ROLLS WITH CARAMEL RUM SAUCE

Steps:

• Make sauce:.
• Stir sugar and 1/2 cup water in heavy medium saucepan over medium-low heat until sugar dissolves.
• Increase heat and boil until syrup turns deep amber, brushing down sides of pan with wet pastry brush and swirling pan occasionally, about 12 minutes.
• Reduce heat to low.
• Add cream (mixture will bubble vigorously) and stir until caramel bits dissolve.
• Remove from heat and mix in rum.
• (Can be made 1 day ahead and chilled. Before serving, rewarm over low heat, stirring occasionally.)
• Make the rolls:.
• Working with one banana at a time, peel, and cut in half.
• Take half at a time, and quarter longways.
• Lay a spring roll wrapper with a point facing you, keeping the rest covered with a damp towel to prevent them from drying out.
• Sprinkle powdered sugar liberally on the wrapper.
• Then lay 1 quarter banana on the wrapper horizontally and then layer strawberry slices across to cover.
• Sprinkle a little coconut on the strawberries, and then put another quarter banana on top (like a sandwich).
• Fold the wrapper over, then the side corners in and roll up, being careful not to tear it.
• Seal with a little egg white.
• Keep covered with a lint free towel, and continue with the rest of the banana and strawberries until you have 8 rolls.
• Hold in the refrigerator until ready to serve.