List of banana dishes facts for kids

A platter of fried plantains

Bananas are tasty fruits that grow on large plants. You might think of them as yellow and sweet, but some bananas, called plantains, are often green or yellow and are usually cooked before eating. Both bananas and plantains are used in many different dishes around the world! They are full of starch and can be soft or firm, and their skins can be green, yellow, red, purple, or even brown when they are ripe. These fruits grow in big bunches that hang from the top of the plant.

Amazing Banana Dishes

Bananas and plantains are super versatile! People use them to make all sorts of yummy foods, from sweet desserts to savory main courses. Here are some popular dishes where bananas or plantains are the main stars:

A loaf of banana bread

Banana cue is usually served on bamboo skewers

• Alloco: A popular West African dish made from fried ripe plantains. It's often served as a side dish or snack.
• Banana boat: This is usually a dessert where a banana is split lengthwise and filled with toppings like ice cream, sauces, and nuts.
• Banana bread: A sweet, moist bread made with mashed bananas. It's perfect for breakfast or a snack.
• Banoffee pie: A delicious English dessert with a biscuit base, covered with toffee, bananas, and cream.
• Banana cake: A sweet cake made with bananas, similar to banana bread but often richer.
• Banana chip: Thin slices of banana that are dried or fried until crispy. They can be sweet or savory.
• Banana cream pie: A creamy dessert with a pastry crust, filled with banana-flavored custard and sliced bananas, often topped with whipped cream.
• Banana cue: A popular Filipino street food where bananas are coated in brown sugar and then deep-fried on a stick.
• Banana flour: A powder made from green bananas. It's used in cooking and baking, especially as a gluten-free option.
• Banana fritters: Pieces of banana dipped in batter and then deep-fried until golden and crispy.
• Banana ketchup: A sweet and tangy condiment from the Philippines, made from mashed bananas, sugar, vinegar, and spices. It's used like tomato ketchup.
• Banana pancakes: Pancakes with mashed or sliced bananas mixed into the batter, making them extra sweet and fluffy.
• Banana pasta: Pasta made using banana flour, offering a unique flavor and texture.
• Banana pudding: A dessert made with layers of sliced bananas, vanilla wafers, and vanilla custard or pudding.
• Banana roll: A dessert or snack where bananas are wrapped in pastry and fried or baked.
• Banana split: A classic ice cream dessert with a banana split in half, topped with scoops of ice cream, sauces, and whipped cream.
• Bananas Foster: A dessert made by cooking bananas in a sauce of butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, and rum, often served with ice cream.
• Bánh chuối: A sweet Vietnamese banana cake or bread pudding.
• Boli: A Nigerian dish of roasted plantains, often served with roasted fish or groundnuts.
• Cayeye: A traditional dish from Colombia made from green plantains that are boiled and mashed.
• Chapo: A traditional drink from Uganda made from fermented bananas.
• Chifle: Thinly sliced and fried green plantain chips, popular in Ecuador and Peru.
• Flying Jacob: A Swedish casserole with chicken, bananas, and peanuts, often served with rice.
• Fried plantain: Slices of plantain that are fried until soft and caramelized, a common side dish in many tropical countries.
• Pizza: In Sweden, bananas are sometimes used as a topping on pizza, giving it a unique sweet and savory flavor.

A frozen banana

• Frozen banana: A whole banana peeled, put on a stick, and frozen, often dipped in chocolate or other toppings.
• Fufu: A dough-like food made from boiled and pounded starchy foods, including plantains, popular in West and Central Africa.
• Ginanggang: A Filipino snack of grilled bananas brushed with margarine and sprinkled with sugar.
• Ginataang saba: A Filipino dish where bananas are cooked in coconut milk.
• Jemput-jemput: A traditional Malaysian and Indonesian fritter, sometimes made with bananas.
• Kolak pisang: An Indonesian dessert made from bananas cooked in coconut milk with palm sugar.
• Ledre: A rolled banana crepe from Bojonegoro, Indonesia.
• Mangú: A traditional dish from the Dominican Republic made from boiled, mashed plantains, often served with fried onions.

Maruya is a type of fritter from the Philippines usually made from bananas.

• Maruya: A type of fritter from the Philippines, often made from bananas.
• Matoke: A dish from Uganda made from steamed green bananas, often served with a sauce.
• Minatamis na saging: A Filipino dessert of sweetened bananas, often cooked in brown sugar syrup.
• Mofongo: A fried plantain-based dish from Puerto Rico.
• Nagasari: An Indonesian steamed cake made from rice flour, coconut milk, and bananas.
• Nendra Banana Jamun: A sweet Indian dessert made with bananas.
• Nilagang saging: A simple Filipino dish of boiled bananas.
• Nilupak na saging: A Filipino snack made from mashed bananas mixed with coconut and sugar.
• Pinakro: A Filipino dish of bananas cooked in coconut milk.
• Pinasugbo: A Filipino delicacy of thinly sliced bananas coated in caramelized sugar and sesame seeds.
• Pisang cokelat: An Indonesian snack of fried bananas with chocolate syrup.
• Pisang epe: A grilled banana dish from Makassar, Indonesia, served with various toppings.
• Pisang plenet: A flattened grilled banana dish from Semarang, Indonesia, with toppings.
• Plantain soup: A savory soup made with plantains, often found in Caribbean and Latin American cuisines.
• Poke: A Hawaiian pudding, sometimes made with bananas.
• Pritong saging: A simple Filipino dish of fried bananas.
• Rellenitos de plátano: Sweet plantain dumplings from Guatemala, often filled with beans.
• Tacacho: A dish from the Peruvian Amazon made from mashed green plantains, often served with pork.
• Tostones: Slices of green plantain that are fried, flattened, and then fried again until crispy.
• Turon: A popular Filipino snack where sliced bananas (and sometimes jackfruit) are wrapped in a spring roll wrapper, fried, and coated with caramelized sugar.

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  Banana ketchup is a popular Philippine condiment made from mashed banana, sugar, vinegar, and spices.

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  Homemade banana pudding served with vanilla wafers

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  Bánh chuối is a sweet banana cake or bread pudding that originated in Vietnam.

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  Mofongo is a fried plantain-based dish from Puerto Rico.

See Also

• Cooking plantain
• List of banana cultivars
• List of banana and plantain diseases
• List of fruit dishes
• Guineo - Green banana dishes from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
• Twinkies, originally flavored with banana