Bananas Foster Sauce Recipes

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a heavy skillet over a medium-high heat. Add the brown sugar. Stir together and cook for a minute or two. Pour in the cream and stir it around to combine.
• Peel the bananas and slice them on the bias inside the peel. Drop the slices into the pan. Next, add the chopped nuts and stir them into the sauce. Then - and this is where you need to be a little careful - stir in the rum. Let it start to bubble, and then carefully use a long lighter to ignite it. (Be sure to have a lid handy in case you need to extinguish the flame.) Let the fire burn and go out (it'll only take about 30 seconds or so), and then stir in the cinnamon at the end. You may also cook the mixture without flambeing it.
• Spoon it over a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream and enjoy immediately.
• Spoon bananas Foster over French toast, waffles or crepes. Substitute peaches, pears or cherries for the bananas. Of course, then it probably wouldn't be considered bananas Foster.

BANANAS FOSTER SAUCE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, melt butter. Stir in the brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Cook and stir until sugar is dissolved, about 2 minutes. Stir in cream. Add bananas and extract. Serve warm, with waffles, pancakes or vanilla ice cream if desired.

BANANAS FOSTER II

Steps:

• In a large, deep skillet over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in sugar, rum, vanilla and cinnamon. When mixture begins to bubble, place bananas and walnuts in pan. Cook until bananas are hot, 1 to 2 minutes. Serve at once over vanilla ice cream.

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over low heat. Add brown sugar, allspice and nutmeg and stir until sugar dissolves. Add banana liqueur and bring sauce to simmer. Add bananas and cook for 1 minute on each side, carefully spooning sauce over bananas as they are cooking. Remove bananas from pan to a serving dish. Bring sauce to a simmer and carefully add the rum. If the sauce is very hot, the alcohol will flame on its own. If not, using stick flame, carefully ignite and continue cooking until flame dies out, approximately 1 to 2 minutes. If sauce is too thin, cook for 1 to 2 minutes until it is syrupy in consistency. Add orange zest and stir to combine. Immediately spoon the sauce over bananas and serve. Serve with waffles, crepes, or ice cream.

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed 12-inch skillet over medium heat.
• Add the brown sugar, cinnamon stick, and lemon zest; stir to dissolve the sugar, about 1 minute.
• (If the heat is too high, the butter and sugar will separate instead of combining to form a sauce).
• Add the bananas and spoon some sauce over each piece.
• Cook until the bananas are glossy and golden on the bottom, about 1 1/2 minutes.
• Turn the bananas and continue cooking until they are very soft but not mushy or falling apart, about 1 1/2 more minutes.
• Remove the skillet from the heat.
• Add the rum and wait until the rum has warmed slightly, about 5 seconds.
• Wave a lit match over the pan until the rum ignites, shaking the pan to distribute the flame over the entire pan.
• When the flames subside (this will take 15 to 30 seconds), divide the bananas and sauce among the four bowls of ice cream and serve.

EASY BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
• Add sliced bananas and stir for 2 minutes.
• Add brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and salt.
• Lower heat and continue cooking, stirring constantly for 2 more minutes.
• Serve over a scoops of ice cream.
• Note: 1 oz of booze may be added during the last 2 minutes of cooking (Rum works well), add with the pan off of the heat- Beware of flaming.

BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Set ice cream out to soften. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat butter, sugar, and rum over medium-low. Cook, stirring occasionally, until smooth and bubbly, 4 to 6 minutes.
• Add bananas, and cook, gently swirling skillet, until bananas are just warmed through, 1 to 2 minutes. Scoop ice cream into bowls, and top with bananas and caramel sauce. Serve immediately.

BANANAS FOSTER SUNDAES

Steps:

• In an 8- or 9-in. cast-iron or other ovenproof skillet, melt butter over medium-low heat. Stir in brown sugar, orange juice, cinnamon and nutmeg until blended. Add bananas and pecans; cook until bananas are glazed and slightly softened, 2-3 minutes, stirring gently., Remove from heat; stir in extract. Serve with ice cream.

SLOW COOKER BANANAS FOSTER

Steps:

• Layer sliced bananas in the bottom of a slow cooker.
• Combine butter, brown sugar, rum, vanilla and cinnamon in a small bowl; pour over bananas.
• Cover and cook on Low for 2 hours. Top bananas with walnuts and coconut during the last 30 minutes of cooking.