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