Banana Balls

Ingredients:

1/2 kg Self Raising Flour

1 Egg

3 tbsp Coarsely Grated Coconut

5 tbsp Palm Sugar (Gulam Melaka)

5 tbsp Fine Sugar

5 Large ripe Bananas

Salt to taste

1/4 cup Ghee or oil

Few tbsp boiled milk (optional)

Method:

• Smash the bananas well with a potato masher. Make sure there are no lumps.
• In a big bowl, add the mashed banana and the rest of the ingredients except ghee/oil. 
• Mix well to combine everything. Make sure the batter is not too thick or too thin. The consistency should be like idli/pancake batter.
• Few tbsp of boiled fresh milk can be added to adjust the consistency of the batter.
• Allow the batter to ferment for atleast 5-6 hours.
• To make the banana balls, heat the kuzhi paniyaram pan and drizzle few drops of ghee or oil into each whole.
• When it is hot, pour the batter into each hole and fill it to 3/4.
• Let it cook on medium low flame for 2-3 mins. Now using a tooth pick or paniyaram stick, turn the balls and cook for another 2 more minutes till it turns golden brown.
• Remove the balls from the pan. Again drizzle few drops of ghee into each hole and repeat with the rest of the batter.
• If you don't own a kuzhi panniyaram pan, not a problem, the batter can be made into small pancakes or dosas drizzled with a little ghee around it.
• Serve it hot with a good cuppa coffee.

Caramelised Banana Split Ice cream

Ingredients:

3 Ripe Bananas 

1/4 cup Caster sugar

2 tbsp water

1 tbsp Butter

A dash of Vanilla essence

A pinch of Nutmeg

5-6 scoops of Butterscotch ice cream (or any of your favourite flavour)

2 tbsp Chopped nuts (Optional)

Method:

• Peel the bananas and dice it into 1 inch thick rounds.
• Melt butter in a non stick pan. Add sugar, water, nutmeg and vanilla essence. Let sugar melt and form into caramel.
• Now add the banana slices to the pan and let it get coated with the caramel mixture.
• Serve the caramelised bananas in a glass bowl with few scoops of ice cream topped with chopped nuts.
• Serve immediately and enjoy.

Banana Fritters

Ingredients:

1 cup Self raising flour

2 very ripe bananas (Mashed into pulp)

1/2 cup caster sugar

Oil for deep frying

A pinch of salt

Method:

• In a big bowl, Combine all the ingredients for the fritters except oil.
• Mix well and keep aside for 15-20 mins.
• Heat oil in a deep bottomed pan.
• Using a round spoon, scoop a little batter and drop it carefully into the hot oil.
• Keep the flame low medium as sugar makes the fritters turn dark very easily. Fritters are ready when they float to the oil surface. Drain on a kitchen towel.
• Serve the banana fritters with a hot cuppa.