Oven-Baked Bananas with Juicy Syrup

Quick, delicious, melts in your mouth, whipped up! Baked bananas in the oven are a simple but very tasty dessert for vegetarians and those who like baking with bananas. There are many ways to prepare such a dish. I suggest baking bananas in foil without peel in a mixture of juice, liqueur and syrup.
cook time: 25 min
Ava Prescott
Oven-Baked Bananas with Juicy Syrup

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

97
Calories
24g
Carbs
1g
Protein

Ingredients (4 portions)

Basic:

Lemon juice (or lemon liqueur like limoncello) 2 tbsp
Bananas (semi-mature) 4 pc
Syrup (orange or lemon) 3 tbsp
Juice (mango or multifruit) 3 tbsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to bake bananas in the oven? Prepare your food. Choose firm fruits for baking, ideally semi-ripe ones. These bananas have a hard, bright yellow outer skin that may have a greenish tint. Soft and overripe bananas are not suitable here: they will quickly darken during baking and will not look very appetizing. In addition, the taste of baked overripe bananas is too sweet.

Step 2

Step 2
Wash the bananas, dry and peel. Be sure to wash bananas before using. The peel can contain many harmful microbes, which, when peeled, get onto the pulp.

Step 3

Step 3
Place the peeled bananas in the middle of a double sheet of foil. The foil tears quite easily, so it is better to fold it in half.

Step 4

Step 4
Drizzle them with lemon juice (I used limoncello to add a slight alcoholic note to the bananas), mango juice and orange syrup. Orange syrup can be safely replaced with lemon syrup, which is sold in large and small chain stores. The citrus components of the recipe balance the sweetness of the bananas with their sourness. And mango juice emphasizes the tropical taste of the dish.

Step 5

Step 5
Wrap the bananas tightly in foil so that the juice does not leak out of the foil while baking. To do this, fold the foil into an envelope. All edges of the envelope should be folded at the top. Place the bananas in foil on a baking sheet and place in an oven preheated to 220°C. Bake them for about 15 minutes.

Step 6

Step 6
Transfer the hot bananas to plates and pour over the juice remaining in the foil. Correctly selected bananas will either not darken at all or darken slightly. It is better to eat them immediately, while the fruits are hot. As they cool, the bananas will darken greatly, becoming not the most beautiful in appearance. You can serve the treat with a scoop of not very sweet ice cream (ideally lemon sorbet or lemon ice cream) or whipped cream. Bon appetit!

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