Bananas Flambéed in a Warm Caramel Sauce

Name: Bananas Flambéed in a Warm Caramel Sauce
Prep time: 6 min
Total time: 6 min
Ingredients: ¼ cup butter; ¾ cup brown sugar; 3 tablespoons rum; ½ vanilla bean sliced in half or ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract; ½ teaspoon cinnamon; 3 bananas

Shifra Klein • Jan 3, 2013 (Updated: Aug 20, 2019)Comment Jump to Recipe

Flambé refers to lighting a dish on fire. Use this dessert at the end of a dairy meal. This dessert can be made on the spot and can be a great cause of entertainment for your guest if you choose to flambé the caramel rum sauce.

Bananas Flambéed in a Warm Caramel Sauce

Prep Time 6

Total Time 6

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Ingredients

¼ cup butter
¾ cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons rum
½ vanilla bean sliced in half or ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
½ teaspoon cinnamon
3 bananas

Instructions

Melt butter, cinnamon, vanilla bean and sugar, in pan.
Add sliced bananas.
Add rum. If you choose to flambé (light a fire over the caramel), step away from pan while lighting a match. Place a match on liquid and watch it flambé. The fire will cook out the alcohol and die down in less then a minute.
Serve over vanilla ice cream.
As seen in the Joy of Kosher with Jamie Geller Magazine (Bitayavon Winter 2011) – Subscribe Now

Category: Recipes

Diets: DairyGluten FreeLow Fat

Styles: Quick & Easy

About Shifra Klein

Shifra Klein is the former editor-in-chief at Joy of Kosher with Jamie Geller Magazine. She aims to reinvent the way you think about food. Shifra lives with her husband, two sons and daughter in New York.