Darwin Banana Recipe | Easy, Healthy, & Scrumptious Dessert
An old fashioned Darwin banana recipe I love.
Best Darwin banana recipe I know for caramelised banana.
Try a Darwin banana recipes dessert.
Darwin banana recipes healthy options
Try an old fashioned Darwin banana recipe. It’s the best Darwin banana dessert recipe I know. It’s easy, healthy, & caramelised. Another top NT & Territory dessert delight.
By the way, bananas also have plenty of health benefits, including fiber, and nutrients.
The benefits of bananas outweigh the issue of the natural amount of sugar they contain, providing you eat them in moderation.
Darwin banana recipe | Easy, quick, mix of banana, pear, & ginger.
Baked dessert using Darwin banana recipe including pear, ginger, & coconut yoghurt. Especially towards the bottom, you can see the caramelised banana & pear.
Old fashioned Darwin banana recipe ingredients
I call it old fashioned because my mother did this sort of baking.
It’s as delicious as I remember it. Here are the ingredients.
- One pear
- 2 medium size Darwin bananas
- One tsp of fresh ginger
- Sprinkle of each of nutmeg and cinnamon
- 4 sheets of rice paper
- Olive oil.
By the way, if you can get Territory bananas that are organic, such as from some markets, they are even more delectable.
With this recipe, the baked ginger combination is especially scrumptious.
You’ll love the best Territory dessert recipe I know.
Darwin bananas recipe healthy dessert because there’s no added sugar. Due to the natural sugar, don’t over do how many you have. But the fiber and other benefits of bananas make them seriously worthwhile, and highly digestible.
How to make your Darwin bananas recipe healthy dessert
Use these steps.
- Peal pear, and cut to thin slices
- Halve the banana, and cut down middle
- Grate the ginger
- Soak rice paper in a dish of water until it becomes pliable and transparent
- Layout rice paper on a board
- Place banana half on rice paper
- Add slices of pear
- Add a small amount of grated ginger
- Add nutmeg and cinnamon
- Fold rice paper to make a parcel. Keep the parcel smallish so the rice paper can handle it.
- Brush bottom and top of parcel with olive oil
- Place on a tray on baking paper, and put into a pre-heated over to 200 degrees Celsius
- Bake for 5 minutes and carefully turn over each parcel. (The rice paper makes a delicate parcel).
- Then brush again with olive oil.
- Watch closely and bake until rice paper goes brown, in around 10 minutes.
- Bake until top is golden, like you see in the pictures.
- Serve hot with yoghurt or whatever you fancy.
By the way, one of the many things I love about the Flametree Bali retreat, is that I get desserts with lunch and dinner, and I don’t have to make them myself.
But these Territory banana recipes are so quick and easy, that I can and do whip them up in a flash.
Baked dessert with pear & ginger, in this rice paper
Rice paper for Territory banana recipes like this one. It’s delicate, so use it carefully when you make this Darwin banana recipe, & don’t make the banana “parcels” too big… because they’ll fall apart!
You’ll find rice paper at Asian supermarkets, and maybe elsewhere.
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Baked cinnamon NT bananas are even easier, & still yummy.
This cinnamon baked alternative is also an even easier option than what I’ve outlined in this Darwin recipe. For this banana recipe, just sprinkle bananas with cinnamon, and bake for 10-15 minutes. Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
By the way, another of the Territory recipes I love for dessert is a mangoes NT dessert layered with black rice & mango puree.
But, unlike Darwin mangoes, bananas are available almost all year, so it’s worth having some recipes like this up your sleeve.
In addition, as discussed above, bananas give you a lush range of other health and digestion benefits.
Local food is another great feature of Flametree retreats
By the way, there’s are several upcoming Flametree retreats in Bali in 2024/2025, including over Christmas / New year, Easter, and the August holiday periods.
One of the many things I like about the retreat is that almost all of the meal ingredients are bought daily in the large local markets.
So, you get fruit and vegetables with that delightful tropical fruit quality that’s only possible when it’s sun ripened and locally grown.
The head cooks at the retreat, and the resort owner, are also serious followers and users of flavorful, plant based recipes, without the many additives that you’ll find in many other places, including in Bali.
So, the food at the retreat is not only heavenly and very digestible, but it’s also clean and safe in terms of tummy upsets. As you no doubt know, that can’t be said of many other restaurants in lesser developed nations.
Learn more about plant based eating at a retreat
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