What can be prepared from overripe bananas: recipes with photos

What can you do with overripe bananas if you no longer want to eat them? It turns out that you can prepare a lot of different dishes from them. Basically, these are all kinds of sweets that are served for dessert: puddings, cakes, muffins, ice cream, pancakes, cookies, pancakes, muffins, toasts, pies, pastries, fruit salads, smoothies, cocktails, creams. Desserts can be prepared with or without baking. In addition, bananas can be added to cereals, alcoholic drinks, and also fried in oil in a frying pan.

And now a few recipes from overripe bananas and photos for them.

Oatmeal

What can you make from overripe bananas for breakfast? Of course, porridge. To do this you will need the following ingredients:

Four tablespoons of instant oatmeal.
A teaspoon of sugar.
A glass of milk.
A handful of dried fruits: raisins, prunes, dates, dried apricots.
Half an overripe banana.

Steps for preparing porridge:

Grind the dried fruits, mix with sugar, oatmeal and mashed banana.
Bring the milk almost to a boil, pour it over the oatmeal, stir and put on the fire using a divider.
Cook over medium heat, covered, until boiling.
Once it starts to boil, reduce the heat, remove the lid and cook for a few more minutes, stirring occasionally.
When the flakes are boiled, remove the porridge from the stove, cover with a lid and let stand for a while.

Muffins

What can you bake from overripe bananas? Yes, anything. For example, muffins.

What to take:

Two ripe bananas.
250 g flour.
100 g butter.
150 g sugar.
Two eggs.
Two teaspoons of baking powder.

Cooking steps:

Mash the bananas into a paste using a fork.
Grind softened butter with sugar, break eggs and mashed bananas into the mixture and mix thoroughly until smooth.
Pour in the sifted flour mixed with baking powder and mix thoroughly.
Divide the dough into muffin tins and place in the oven for 25 minutes. The cooking temperature is 180 degrees.

Classic dish

It is possible to make bread from overripe bananas, which not only tastes good, but also brings benefits. It is served as a nutritious breakfast dish or as a delicious dessert, using your imagination when serving. It will take about an hour to prepare a culinary masterpiece.

Ingredients:

2-3 pcs. overripe bananas;
330 g butter;
200 g sugar;
8 g vanillin;
8 g soda;
250 g flour;
5 g salt.

Step-by-step preparation:

The oven needs to be heated to 170°C.
Using a fork, soften the bananas, combine them with butter, then add soda with salt, sugar, egg, and vanilla extract. The last product that is mixed into the mass is flour.
The prepared dough must be poured into a container and baked for about an hour until completely cooked. The finished bread should cool completely, and then you can remove it from the container and eat it with tea.

What to add

Sweet lovers can complement the classic banana dish by adding chocolate and walnuts. If you have berries, you can prepare a kind of banana bread with blueberries.

Adherents of the classics will not fail if they prepare a bun with the addition of chocolate. The dish looks very beautiful, and to make the treat look more luxurious, you can place a scoop of ice cream near the bread.

How to serve

Banana bread is served in portions, cut into pieces. You can prepare various dishes from overripe bananas - muffins, pies, smoothies, ice cream, puddings, pancakes.

French toast

What to take:

Four slices of white bread.
One banana.
Two eggs.
Three tablespoons of cream cheese.
80 ml milk.
A pinch of vanillin.
A pinch of cinnamon.
Half a cup of chopped nuts.
Two tablespoons of sugar.

Cooking steps:

Turn on the oven, setting the temperature to 220 degrees.
Grease a baking sheet with oil.
Make cuts in each piece of bread from cover to cover.
Mix cream cheese with mashed banana.
Place a teaspoon of the cheese and banana mixture into the cuts on the pieces of bread.
Break the eggs into a bowl, add milk and vanilla and beat.
Mix chopped nuts with sugar and cinnamon. Pour the mixture onto a flat plate.
Dip the slices of bread filled with the banana cheese mixture into the egg mixture until all sides are coated, then roll in the mixture of nuts, cinnamon and sugar.
Place the toast on a baking sheet and place in the oven for six minutes.

Serve the finished toast with syrup or jam.

Banana blondie cookies

What you need to take for the test:

A glass of sugar.
Half a cup of melted butter.
A glass of flour.
One egg.
A teaspoon of vanillin.
A pinch of salt.
One overripe banana.

For the glaze:

Half a glass of sugar.
A quarter cup of butter.
Two tablespoons of milk.
Glasses of powdered sugar.

Cooking steps:

Turn on the oven at 180 degrees.
Line and grease a square baking pan with foil.
Place butter, egg, sugar and vanillin in a bowl, then mix with a mixer until smooth. Continuing to work with the mixer, add salt, mashed banana and flour. The dough should be smooth.
Place the dough in the pan and bake in the oven for about 25 minutes. Take the finished baked goods out of the oven and let cool.
Prepare the glaze. To do this, melt the butter in a saucepan, pour milk into it, add sugar, stir and bring to a boil, but do not boil. Remove from heat, cool and beat in powdered sugar.
Coat the cake with the resulting glaze. When the icing has cooled, cut the cake into square portions.

Curd and banana tart

What you need to take for the test:

200 g butter.
350 g flour.
A tablespoon of sour cream.
A teaspoon of baking powder.

For filling:

Four ripe bananas.
Two eggs.
200 g cottage cheese.
100 g sugar.
10 g vanillin.

Cooking steps:

Chop the butter and flour until crumbs form, then add sour cream and baking powder, knead the dough and roll it into a ball.
Prepare the tart pan. Place the dough into it, distribute it evenly over the mold and form sides, pierce the bottom with a fork in several places. Place the baking base in the refrigerator.
Combine cottage cheese with sugar and eggs, beat, then add bananas mashed with a fork and stir until smooth.
Place the banana filling in the mold on the dough. Trim off excess dough from sides.
Place in the oven, heated to 200 degrees, for 40 minutes. After turning off the oven, leave the tart in the oven for ten minutes.

Remove the finished dessert and let it cool completely at room temperature. Then put it in the refrigerator for two hours.

Healthy ice cream

Cool dessert made from sweet fruits (Photo: domos.ru)

Delicate dessert for a healthy diet. It is prepared very simply from 1 kg of overripe bananas. No additional components are needed.

How to cook

Finely chop the pulp.
Place in a container and place in the freezer.
Leave to freeze for several hours.
Grind with a blender or food processor until smooth.
Add a spoonful of water and place in the refrigerator for 30-60 minutes.
Eat before it melts.

A simple dessert can be complemented with maple syrup, melted chocolate, puffed rice or chopped nuts.

Cheesecake without baking

What can you make from overripe bananas for dessert without baking? There is a solution - cheesecake with cottage cheese.

What to take:

Two bananas.
80 g dried apricots.
Half a cup of dried apples.
100 g low-fat cottage cheese.
A teaspoon of honey.
Half a glass of milk.
100 g sugar.
One apple.
A tablespoon of gelatin.
Glass of water.
100 g raisins.
A glass of rye crackers.
Cinnamon to taste.

Cooking steps:

Soak gelatin in water.
Grind crackers, dried apricots and dried apples in a blender, add honey to the mixture and mix.
Grease the walls of the springform pan with oil, put the dried fruit mixture into it and spread evenly over the bottom.
Peel one banana and one apple, cut the apples into thin slices, the banana into thin circles and place in the mold on top of the cake.
When the gelatin swells, heat it on the stove.
Beat the second banana, cottage cheese, milk, cinnamon and sugar in a blender. Pour slightly cooled gelatin into the resulting mixture, mix and pour into the mold.
Place the cheesecake in the refrigerator to harden.

Cooking features

Overripe bananas with dark specks on the peel and richly colored flesh contain more sucrose and some other beneficial substances, including those that help prevent the formation of cancerous tumors. However, if not only the peel, but also the pulp of the fruit has turned black, turning into a slippery sticky mass, you cannot eat it. It is also not suitable for preparing any dishes.
The differences between an overripe and a spoiled banana are not obvious, so people who have problems with the digestive system, small children and the elderly should not eat suspicious fruits. It is advisable to avoid desserts made from blackened bananas.
Overripe bananas are sweet, so there is no point in adding a lot of sugar to dishes. Sometimes you can avoid sweeteners altogether.

Overripe bananas can be used to make not only baked goods and other dishes that require heat treatment. These fruits are also suitable for cold treats.

Fruit salad

What can you make from overripe bananas as a light, fresh dish? Try to create an unusual salad.

What to take:

One large juicy pear.
One big juicy apple.
One large ripe banana.
100 g dessert cherries.
50 g peach dessert.
30 g Limoncello liqueur.
A jar of mango (balls) in its own juice.
Four tablespoons of lavender sugar.

Cooking steps:

Peel fresh fruits (banana, apple, pear).
Cut banana into slices.
Cut the pear and apple into cubes.
Drain the juice from the mango jar (you won't need the juice for this recipe).
Place chopped fruits, dessert cherries, and mango balls in a salad bowl.
Add peach dessert and Limoncello liqueur.
Mix carefully, place into bowls and sprinkle lavender sugar on top.

Let's fantasize ourselves!

Didn't find a suitable recipe? Then invent it yourself! And we will help a little. So, how can you use an overripe banana in cooking:

Bakery. Banana puree with blackened peel can be used as a base for dough, or you can add it in small quantities to the main ingredients in any batter (for cupcakes, muffins, pancakes).
Filling for any dish. Puff pastries or dumplings - in both cases you can use banana puree for the filling. How about a pita roll with banana? Or banana spring rolls?
Smoothie. Add other fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, dairy products or milk to banana puree for a delicious drink.
Breakfast. Throw pieces of overripe banana into porridge or into a mixture for cottage cheese casserole or cheesecakes, prepare sandwiches with peanut butter and banana puree, make oatmeal with banana...
Jam. If time allows, make jam. With any other fruits or berries. By the way, adding a banana can significantly reduce the amount of sugar in the dessert!
Cream for cake. Yes Yes! Add banana puree to any cream or again use it as a base. Butter, custard, curd - any of them can instantly become banana.
Salad. If there are other fruits along with the banana, make a dessert fruit salad from them, seasoned with yogurt or sour cream
Puree. Simply puree an overripe banana along with baked apples or pears. A healthy and natural dish for a snack instead of Frutonyan and Agushi.
Ice cream. You just need to freeze a banana, then puree it in a blender and eat it. The simplest dessert option.

Pancakes without flour

The ingredients you will need are one banana and two eggs. The pancakes are prepared as follows:

Mash the banana with a fork until pureed.
Break two eggs into banana puree and mix with a blender.
Heat the frying pan.
Place the mixture in small portions on a dry frying pan, forming pancakes. Lightly fry on each side.

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Smoothie

Don't know what to do with overripe bananas? A great solution is a smoothie. It can be milk, fruit, chocolate.

For a nutritious milk shake you will need the following products:

Two bananas.
A quarter glass of water.
A glass of milk.
Two tablespoons of brown sugar.
Eight ice cubes.

Steps for making a banana smoothie.

Mix bananas, milk, water, sugar in a blender.
Serve in a glass with ice cubes.

The sugar in this recipe can be adjusted to your liking. A ripe banana itself is very sweet; its quantity can be reduced.

Another smoothie option is made from banana, pear and celery.

You will need three bananas, two pears, two stalks of celery, a smoothie additive and a glass of water.

All ingredients need to be mixed in a blender, add a teaspoon of Superfood smoothie additive and blend until a homogeneous mixture is formed. Pear-banana smoothie is ready.

Another smoothie option is chocolate. To prepare it you need to take:

Two bananas.
100 g milk chocolate.
800 ml milk.
A pinch of cinnamon.

Cooking steps:

Peel the bananas and cut each into three pieces.
Break the chocolate into pieces.
Pour the milk into a saucepan, add bananas and chocolate.
Bring the mixture to a boil over low heat while stirring constantly. The chocolate should be completely dissolved.
Remove the pan from the heat. When the contents have cooled, pour it into a blender and blend until smooth.

Cheese casserole

An excellent breakfast dish that comes out tender and airy, like a soufflé. This dessert, with the introduction of semolina, dissolves in the mouth and does not fall off after baking in the oven. Even those who don’t eat cottage cheese will like this casserole.

Ingredients:

400 g curd mass;
ripe fruit;
100 ml fermented baked milk;
2 eggs;
30-40 g sugar;
50 g semolina;
10 g lemon juice;
1/8 tsp vanillin;
1/8 tsp salt.

Step-by-step preparation:

The fruit should be peeled, chopped as desired and transferred to a blender container. Then it must be poured with citrus juice so that it does not darken, and crushed into puree.
To the banana mass you need to add softened cottage cheese, fermented baked milk, vanillin, salt and make a homogeneous mixture from the set of products.
In the second bowl, using a blender, you need to beat the eggs with sugar to get a stable foam. Since the eggs according to the recipe do not need to be divided into yolks and whites, as a soufflé is often prepared, you will need to beat them at a very high speed.
Add a mixture of cottage cheese and fruit to the eggs, add semolina and mix slowly so that it retains its fluffiness.
The prepared dough must be poured into a baking tray and baked at 160 °C for about 40 minutes. into a preheated oven.
The finished dish must be cooled before removing from the container.

Chocolate covered bananas

What can you make from overripe bananas to surprise and delight your family?

For example, a chocolate dessert that requires very few ingredients:

100 g chocolate.
Two bananas.
A glass of roasted peanuts.

Cooking steps:

Cut the bananas crosswise into three parts.
Melt the chocolate in the microwave or in a water bath.
Chop the peanuts not too finely.
Place bananas on wooden sticks (you can use ice cream sticks), dip them in melted chocolate and roll in peanuts.

Place the chocolate-covered bananas on parchment paper and place them in the refrigerator to harden.

Peanuts can be replaced with other nuts to suit your taste.

Useful tips

To make banana dishes you need to know the following recommendations:

After purchasing, it is better to store the fruit in a dark place so that the temperature is at room temperature. Bananas quickly deteriorate in the refrigerator; the ideal temperature for the fruit is +13-15 °C.
If bananas are bought for 1-2 days, then it is better to take bright yellow fruits. There may be some slight green discoloration that goes away within a few days.
You should not take bananas if they have a dark shade. Such fruits have turned black from the cold or were stored incorrectly.
Completely green fruits can be brought to ripeness if stored in a single bundle in a bag along with ripe apples. Closed in a bag, they will ripen quickly.
It is better to chop the fruits for baking using a knife or fork so that you can feel the banana pieces.
If a recipe calls for baking, it is better to make it from overripe bananas. These fruits have dark spots on the skin and dark and soft flesh inside. These fruits contain a lot of healthy fructose, which adds sweetness to baked goods without adding sugar.