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Thai Coconut Bananas
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Mar 31, 2025
Lightly grilled bananas are dipped in a luscious caramel sauce before being returned to the grill for another quick romp in the heat. Eat for dessert or breakfast.
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Grilled bananas may still be something of a novelty in North America
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but in Southeast Asia, you find them on street corner push carts everywhere
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Tonight, grilled bananas Thai style, basted with coconut caramel sauce. I bet you can't eat just one
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First, the sauce. I've heated a sauce pan over our hibachi, and to it add one half cup of light brown sugar or palm sugar
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They'd use palm sugar in Southeast Asia. What you want to do is melt the sugar and cook it until it starts to caramelize
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That's about five to eight minutes. Add your coconut milk and the mixture may hiss and sputter
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a good thing. And the stir the mixture until the sugar dissolves in the coconut note
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Then place it back on the fire to melt the sugar. And while that's working, let me show you the bananas
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So we're using these tiny finger bananas. And what you want to do is just cut the banana off the stem
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and peel it. ideally right before grilling. And if you can't find finger bananas
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use the smallest conventional bananas you can find. And the sugar is melted
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The sauce is bubbling away. So what you want to do is just close this vent a little bit
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That turns the heat down. Now let me show you how to prepare the grill for the banana We want a screaming hot fire so we open the vent here Okay last of all
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arrange the bananas on the grate in a neat row. Why a neat row
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So they cook evenly. And you can remember which one needs turning
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This recipe was inspired, by a street vendor who grills off of a push cart
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behind the Thai Orchid Sheraton Hotel in Bangkok. Her bananas are so famous
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she's been written up by guidebooks around the world. And now as the bananas grill
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what you want to do is base them with this coconut caramel sauce
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The aroma is absolutely incredible. And if the heat gets too hot, simply close down this damper
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And the beauty of these finger bananas is they're supernaturally fruity and sweet
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When the bananas are golden brown, they're done. It's really quick. So here are your grilled bananas
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And you can just take a little bit more of the coconut caramel sauce and spoon it over the bananas
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and serve the remaining sauce on the side. And there you have it
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Thai grilled bananas with coconut caramel. Let's see how we did. Mmm, this is like banana coconut candy
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