I love bananas but they have to be just right – call me Goldilocks! But what do you do with green bananas which incidentally may be healthier than yellow/ripe ones – it’s all to do with the starches and conversion to sugars. Well, you can boil, fry or make them into smoothies. We had delicious fried bananas, banana omelette and other unusual things on Tanna Island, Vanuatu - think plantains but these were actually very starchy bananas.
Bake them in foil then toss in a little oil or butter and salt. Boil them in their skins and then mash them as a totally different side. Slice them into ‘chips’ as you would potatoes or sweet potatoes and fry.
https://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/
Today’s bit of trivia
'They' tell you to put unripe fruit in a paper bag for a day or two to speed up the ripening process. It is in fact the ethylene gas given off by the ripening fruit and trapped in the bag, that causes the fruit to ripen faster. Just one of those fascinating pieces of trivia!
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