BananA Easy & cheaP RecipeS

For the COVID-19 confinement: easy and cheap banana recipes.

Because you can enjoy eating bananas not only as a raw fruit

Maybe you´re lucky and can spend time at home cooking sophisticated recipes at home. Unfortunately, a lockdown means for most of the population a moment of austerity. Therefore, we would like to develop a few inexpensive recipes that are also healthy and delicious. Some recipes we hope can help you to save you time and effort at home, a place that currently might has turned into a chaotic little world.

Obviously, as you have probably guessed, our main ingredient will be bananas. Our special ingredient that will be part of a very small list of ingredients.

BananA SmoothiE

Ingredients: 

  • 1 peeled frozen banana
  • 2 tablespoons of cacao* powder (better if it´s made in Ecuador 😉 )
  • ⅓ cup of water or milk

Step:

1st Place all the ingredients in a blender or blend them until smooth with a fork. 

… And that’s all! Ready to enjoy it.

  • Ingredientes for a banana smoothie
  • Blender with all the banana smoothie ingredients
  • A glass of banana & cacao smoothie
  • Cacao made in Ecuador

BananA MoussE

Ingredients: 

  • 1 ripe banana
  • 1 ripen avocado
  • 1/4 cup raw cacao* powder (as already said, better if it´s from Ecuador )
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 tablespoon honey 
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Steps:

1st Peel and cube the banana and the avocado. 

2nd Place all ingredients in a blender and pulse into smooth, or you can also use a fork to blend all the ingredients until smooth.

3rd Refrigerate to get a more solid consistency.

… And  serve & enjoy it!.

  • Ingredients for a banana mousse
  • Blender with banana and avocado
  • Cacao, banana and avocado
  • Blender with banana mousse
  • A glass with banana mousse

BananA PancakE

Ingredients: 

  • 1 ripe banana
  • 2 eggs
  •  A small splash of oil or a small knob of butter

Steps:

1st Smash the ripe banana with a fork.

2nd Whisk the eggs until blended.

3rd In a bowl, mix together the banana and eggs until getting a homogeneous batter.

Steps:

4th Heat a non-stick frying pan over a medium-high heat with a teaspoon of oil or a small knob of butter.

5th Ladle some batter into the pan and fry until golden and bubbles rise to the surface. Flip the pancake and fry until golden brown.

… And ready to really nice serve the pancakes!

  • Ingredients for a banana pancake
  • A smashed ripe banana
  • Banana and eggs
  • A batter of banana and eggs
  • A pan with the banana batter
  • Banana pancakes

BananA Ice CreaM

Let’s remember this recipe already posted in our BananitaBlog 

Banana ice cream

*For our recipes we have used the organic cacao from “Herencia Esmeraldas”. This delicate cacao is produced in a farmer owned chocolate company from Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Learn more about it in this video

Organic Ecuadorian cacao from Esmeraldas
Ecuadorian cacao from Herencia Esmeraldas