Recipes with banana

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Acai Bowl

Frozen acai blended with banana, blueberries, and Greek yogurt turns into a thick, deep purple base like sorbet, with an earthy, almost cocoa-like note behind the berry flavor. The acai palm grows in the Amazon basin, and the bowl format topped with granola, fruit, and honey spread from Rio de Janeiro surf culture in the 1980s. The contrast between cold base and crunchy granola fades fast, so it goes to the table right away.

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Prep 10min 0 2 servings

Drinks Easy

Korean Banana Milk

Made at home with no flavoring or dye, banana milk comes out pale rather than the bright yellow of the bottled kind. Most of the sweetness depends on how ripe the bananas are, so ones with a few brown speckles work best. Blended with ice it drinks like a thick smoothie, while without ice it is thinner, closer to the bottled drink.

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Prep 8min 0 2 servings

Salads Easy

Fruit Yogurt Salad

Apple, banana, strawberries and blueberries cut into bite-size pieces get folded into plain yogurt sweetened with honey, whose soft tang sits over the fruit's sweetness. Lemon juice slows browning on the cut apple and freshens the finish, while walnuts toasted briefly in a dry pan bring crunch to an otherwise soft bowl.

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Prep 12min 0 2 servings

Desserts Easy

Banana Pudding

Vanilla wafers start out crisp and, after a night in the fridge, turn soft and cakey from the custard around them. That change is the point of this Southern American layered dessert, which needs only a saucepan for the custard and no oven at all. The bananas need to be fully ripe; underripe ones leave an astringent edge against the sweet cream.

Prep 20min Cook 10min 4 servings

Drinks Easy

Korean Banana Misutgaru Smoothie

Misutgaru, a Korean powder of roasted mixed grains, is blended with ripe banana, so the sweetness of the fruit sits on top of a toasty, grainy base. A spoonful of peanut butter makes it nuttier, and blending in ice leaves it thick and cold.

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Prep 5min 0 2 servings

Salads Easy

Fruit Salad (Fresh Seasonal Fruit in Yogurt)

Crisp apple and kiwi, soft banana, and tart strawberries and blueberries end up together in each spoonful, held by plain yogurt sweetened only with honey and sharpened with lemon. Cutting the fruit to a similar size keeps every bite even. The lemon juice does a second job, slowing the apple from turning brown. Banana softens fastest of all, so it joins the bowl last, after everything else is coated. Ten minutes in the fridge lets the fruit juices loosen the yogurt into a lighter, glossier coating.

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Prep 20min 0 4 servings

Desserts Easy

Banana Split

Two raw banana halves frame three scoops set side by side, so every spoonful offers a different flavor rather than one blended mix. Sauces should be at room temperature or colder, because a hot topping would melt a channel through the scoops before the bowl reaches the table.

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Prep 15min 0 2 servings

Drinks Easy

Korean Wild Soy Grain Smoothie

With wild soybean powder and roasted brown rice powder in it, this tastes like a thick version of misutgaru, Korea's roasted grain drink. The banana spends just ten minutes in the freezer first, and that alone gives it a shake-like body with no other thickener.

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Prep 7min 0 2 servings

Desserts Easy

Bananas Foster

Brennan's Restaurant in New Orleans created this dessert in the 1950s, and there the rum is poured into the pan and set alight. This version skips the flame. Bananas cook in a butter, brown sugar and cinnamon sauce, then go hot onto cold vanilla ice cream and reach the table still steaming. Start to finish, about ten minutes.

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Prep 10min Cook 10min 2 servings

Drinks Medium

Korean Black Rice Coconut Smoothie

Seventy grams of cooked, cooled black rice turns this smoothie a deep purple. It is blended thick with coconut milk, banana and date syrup, then topped with toasted coconut chips.

Prep 12min Cook 20min 2 servings

Desserts Easy

Banoffee Pie

The name is banana plus toffee. The toffee here is condensed milk stirred in a saucepan until deep amber, and although banoffee is usually called no-bake, this version gives the digestive biscuit base 10 minutes in the oven so it stays firm under that dense layer. Cut cold, a slice shows four clean layers: biscuit, toffee, banana and cream.

Prep 25min Cook 10min 4 servings

Drinks Easy

Korean Mugwort Banana Smoothie

The mugwort, a grassy Korean spring herb, is blanched only briefly, so what comes through is its green aroma more than its bitterness. Blended with frozen banana and yogurt, it makes a thick, pale green smoothie.

Prep 8min Cook 2min 2 servings

Desserts Easy

Fruit Cottage Cheese Bowl

Juice from strawberries, blueberries, and banana runs between the small curds of cottage cheese, and each spoonful carries a mild saltiness and fruit sweetness together. There is no dressing, only a thin line of honey, and without the honey all the sweetness comes from the fruit. Pat the rinsed blueberries dry before they go on, or the cheese turns watery.

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Prep 8min 0 2 servings

Desserts Easy

Granola Yogurt Bowl

Strained Greek yogurt is thick enough to hold banana, kiwi, and blueberries on top without spreading. Granola starts absorbing moisture the moment it touches the yogurt and goes on just before eating, while the chia seeds, given five minutes, swell into springy beads of gel.

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Prep 8min 0 2 servings