Banana Fritters
Total time 25 Min
This recipe is a great way to use overripe bananas and, when I was young, Banana Fritters was the first Jamaican recipe I learned how to make.
I can’t even recall when my mother taught me how to make them. What I do remember though, is almost burning down the house when I was making some one day after school! I must’ve been about 13 or 14 years old. I was craving some banana fritters and decided to make a batch while I waited for everyone else to get home. The problem was I was watching TV at the same time, in another room!
When I finally turned my head to go back to the kitchen I saw smoke billowing out of the door! Inside I found a blackened frying pan with a flickering flame on the handle, and a large black “swoosh” of soot that went from the backsplash behind the stove to the middle of the ceiling above. The kitchen had to be re-wallpapered. And, of course, I was forbidden to make more than toast when no one was at home. – Angela
Banana Fritters Recipe
Ingredients
- 1⅔ (600 mL) cup mashed overripe Bananas (about 3-5 medium bananas)
- 2-3 Tbsps (30 mL) Brown Sugar
- ¼ tsp (1 mL) Nutmeg
- ¼ tsp (1 mL) Cinnamon
- 1 tsp (5 mL) Vanilla extract
- Pinch Salt
- 1 cup (250 mL) all-purpose Flour
- 4 to 5 Tbsps Cooking Oil
- 1 Tbsp (15 mL) granulated Sugar
Instructions
- In mixing bowl mix mashed bananas with sugar and spices
- Stir in flour to make a batter.
- Heat cooking oil on Medium-High heat and in batches, using a large spoon, spoon batter into pan to form round fritters.
- Fry fritters until crisp and brown on both sides; you may have to add more cooking oil. When you press them if no batter oozes out they’re done.
- Remove fritters from pan and place on paper towel.
- Cooking tip: The riper the bananas the more you’ll need to use to reach the measurement
Notes
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Used whole wheat sandwich that was dry so used an extra cup of milk. I also added a can of fruit cocktail and lessened the sugar to half a cup. Turned out delicious.
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Great recipe, it came out good used only 3 eggs and added flaked coconut. Thank you for this recipe.
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Thank you 😊 it turned out really well!
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I used a variety of different breads to use up left overs. I have made bread pudding before so I am confident it will be delicious. Thanks for the recipe
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I added red label wine and Jwray and nephew white rum. I also blended my cherries and raisins along with 4 eggs. I wish I could upload a picture to show the final product. Our palettes are grateful!!!
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Delicious with a little alterations.
I used:
*whole wheat bread instead of white
*brown sugar instead of granulated
*fruit wine instead of rum
* 5 eggs instead of 6
As these were the ingredients that I had available.
Also, I lightly blended the raisons with the milk as my family doesn’t like raisons
And I prayed before I started as I always do when experimenting with new stuff in the kitchen.
It was delicious, my family and friends enjoyed it.
Thank you very much 😊
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Lovely peppered steak, nice one!
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Hmmmmm maybe I used too much bread (also I used hard dough bread) and I used brown sugar instead of white (I don’t like white sugar) but it was very bland. So I added syrup at the end (it helped a lot). However thank you for sharing the recipe. It was my first time, wont be my last. I will try again but no rum (I felt it added an unnecessary weight to it.
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Great curried shrimps! Thanks! I made my own and it was quite tasty and succulent. Keep up the good work.