Recipe

Grilled bananas with coconut syrup

Feb 28, 2011 1:00pm
  • 15 mins cooking
  • Serves 4
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Ingredients

Grilled bananas with coconut syrup
  • 1/3 cup (80ml) water
  • 1/4 cup (55g) firmly packed light brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup (60ml) coconut-flavoured liqueur
  • 4 large_piece (920g) ripe bananas
  • 2 teaspoon lime rind, finely grated
  • 1/4 cup (20g) shredded coconut, toasted

Method

Grilled bananas with coconut syrup
  • 1
    Stir the water and sugar in small saucepan over heat, without boiling, until sugar dissolves, bring to the boil. Reduce heat, simmer, uncovered, without stirring, about 3 minutes or until syrup thickens slightly. Remove from heat, stir in liqueur.
  • 2
    Split bananas lengthways,brush about a quarter of the syrup mixture over the cut-sides of bananas.
  • 3
    Cook bananas, cut-side down, on heated lightly oiled grill plate (or grill or barbecue) until browned lightly and heated through.
  • 4
    Meanwhile, heat remaining syrup mixture in small saucepan until hot. Remove from heat, stir in rind.
  • 5
    Serve hot bananas drizzled with syrup, sprinkle with coconut.

Notes

We used malibu, a rum-based coconut liquer for this recipe.

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