Publication-approved historical recipe

Platanos machos recipe

Historical recipe record without an accepted exact episode or contestant association.

Ingredients

  • 4 semi-ripe bananas
  • 4 tbsp butter
  • Zest and juice of 1 orange
  • juice of 1 lime
  • 1 tbsp Cointreau
  • 125 g caster sugar
  • 300 g soured cream
  • 1–2 tbsp icing sugar, to taste

Method

  1. Peel and quarter the bananas lengthways and crossways.
  2. Brown the pieces on all sides in the butter.
  3. Combine the citrus zest and juices, Cointreau and caster sugar, pour into the pan and simmer with the bananas for 10 minutes.
  4. Sweeten the soured cream with icing sugar to taste and spoon it over the warm bananas.