Leftover Bananas Recipes: 100 Things You Can Do

Endless Simmer:

How many times has someone spotted excess, overripe or just unused bananas in your kitchen and said, "uh-oh, looks like it's time to make banana bread!" -- as if the only things possible to do with a banana are eat it or turn it into bread? Well we say "no more." With no particular offense meant to anyone's banana bread recipe, we believe the humble banana is in fact as versatile as bacon or eggs, and we've got the internets to prove it.

Here's our carefully curated list of 100 Things to Do with a Banana (not including banana bread). Yes, we've got plenty of banana breakfasts and banana desserts, but how about some banana curry, banana soup or a banana martini? And don't worry, there are -- of course -- a few ways to eat banana with bacon.

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Comments

[Counterglow]

04:20 AM on 05/31/2010

I never understood why people would spend money on bananas. By the time you skin one and get rid of that big, soft bone, there isn't a lot left to eat.

[Holliday MD]

09:01 PM on 05/28/2010

Make it 10. I got a step by step receptive for Banana wontons!

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[Holliday MD]

09:03 PM on 05/28/2010

Duh-- make it 101.

[DevonTexas]

02:19 PM on 05/28/2010

and none of the 10 were what I had in my twisted mind!

[gretchenart]

12:54 AM on 05/28/2010

just put it in your pocket and make sure you are happy to see me!

[CSuzy]

06:46 PM on 05/26/2010

My niece was just visiting--with gluten & dairy restrictions--and had some desserts just for herself to pop in the freezer. Peel and halve bananas, stick a popsicle stick in one end of each and toss in the freezer for a while. Melt some chocolate or similar candy coating (hers was cocoa-based, sugar free), dip the banana halfs, then freeze until coating is solid. Then you can wrap them individually and keep frozen for anyone--kids love them!!

[Miss Trust]

06:13 PM on 05/25/2010

Ah, food porn! Judging by the photos, those recipes must be amazing; I am still drooling.

[Suntio]

04:51 PM on 05/25/2010

I admit that after reading the title I was a little apprehensive about reading the article.

[wasim ali]

12:52 PM on 05/25/2010

Hold banana in hand. Peel. Eat. YUM!

[Chaling]

11:15 AM on 05/25/2010

Many of those recipes look like they use light bananas, in other words, like we would eat them, before they browned(exterior) and softened(interior).

what's wrong with banana bread, anyway? LOL.... that is how I handle my 2-3 that eventually go brown, after buying 15 or so(I eat 12-15 bananas a week. Cavendish). Of course, hopefully I have timed purchases to consumption and have none left for banana bread.

now fried plantains with coconut and brown sugar, a whole 'nother Oprah.

[The Q]

09:48 PM on 05/26/2010

Agree. I actually get stoked when I see we have some bananas going bad because it gives me an excuse to make banana bread.

[wellingtonian]

06:45 AM on 05/25/2010

Gah, what on earth is one "stick" of butter!? I see it all the time in US recipes and have no idea how I can even begin to try to convert that to grams

[Hematite]

09:27 AM on 05/25/2010

It would be extremely easy to answer your question, but I don't think I will.

[buddaman71]

09:49 AM on 05/25/2010

In the US, butter typically comes in an package with 4 "sticks" that are about 115g each.
:)

[Hematite]

02:44 PM on 05/25/2010

As he could have learned all by himself had he spent 13 seconds looking it up (I timed it). His point was not to ask a question but to preen. Provincialism is not sophistication, nor is it a vice only when practiced by Americans.

[Miss Trust]

06:23 PM on 05/25/2010

Thanks for the clarification! I use American recipes a lot and since I spent two years in the U.S., I do remember the size of those sticks of butter and just use half a package of German here in Germany. That would be about 125grams and recipes have always worked with that amount. Then again, I am quite a fan of the "Pi times thumb" method when it comes to measuring ingredients :)

[kinoptikation]

03:13 AM on 05/25/2010

101th: Stick up your rear end. Food is being tainted with and you don't even know it.

[thereisonlyoneparty]

02:54 AM on 05/25/2010

Most people eat their bananas before they are ripe.

A ripe Cavendish will be yellow with black spots starting to appear.

[JuniorBug]

09:34 PM on 05/24/2010

You're very brave to put this article on a website with a comments feature.

[Freesia2]

04:13 PM on 05/25/2010

lol

Shamey shamey

[VerizonCells]

08:32 PM on 05/24/2010

Green Banana's in my curry for years...

[JoeLib]

07:24 PM on 05/24/2010

"100 Things you can do with Bananas"?

I think I saw that movie in college.