Wanna Green Bean: Banana Mousse with Butterscotch Swirl

5 October 2008

Banana Mousse with Butterscotch Swirl

I’ll admit, this is one of those recipes that people think took you hours to make because it is so tasty, but in fact there are only 6 ingredients (two of which I didn’t really use), and the whole thing probably took me about 15 minutes (minus refrigeration time).

The recipe is from Gordon Ramsay’s book, Fast Food. Seriously, this is some fast food!

Ingredients:
1/2 cup (125 ml) light brown sugar
3 tbsp (45 ml) unsalted butter
2 1/4 cups (550 ml) whipping cream, chilled
4 large ripe bananas, (chilled in the freezer 1-2 hours)
squeeze of lemon juice
semisweet chocolate for grating

First add the sugar, butter and 2/3 of a cup of cream in a pan over medium heat and stir until the sugar is dissolved and the butter is melted.

Continue to cook, letting it bubble for a minute or two stirring frequently (you don’t want it to burn!). Remove the sauce from the heat and allow it to cool completely.

Next get out your blender and add the remaining cream, bananas you have cut into smaller pieces,

and a squeeze of lemon juice, into it.

Blend away until its smooth, creamy and thick. Really. That’s all you have to do. No really, thats it!

Next Gordon has you make them all fancy into separate dishes, but since I was taking mine to a party this is what I did. Spoon about 1/3 of the caramel sauce into a 9 × 9 glass baking dish (or well whatever you want to serve this thing in). Next add the banana mousse. Then spoon another 1/3 over the top of the bananas. Stir until swirled. Add the last 1/3 and swirl into the banana mousse again.

Finally shave some chocolate over the top, or do like I did and just sprinkle some chocolate powder you use for baking over the top. Its really not too bitter considering how sweet the rest of the dish is.

Refrigerate for a few hours and serve!

That’s it, really!

Told you it was fast!

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Ingredients:
1/2 cup (125 ml) light brown sugar
3 tbsp (45 ml) unsalted butter
2 1/4 cups (550 ml) whipping cream, chilled
4 large ripe bananas, (chilled in the freezer 1-2 hours)
squeeze of lemon juice
semisweet chocolate for grating

First add the sugar, butter and 2/3 of a cup of cream in a pan over medium heat and stir until the sugar is dissolved and the butter is melted. Continue to cook, letting it bubble for a minute or two stirring frequently (you don’t want it to burn!). Remove the sauce from the heat and allow it to cool completely.

Next get out your blender and add the remaining cream, bananas you have cut into smaller pieces, and a squeeze of lemon juice, into it. Blend away until its smooth, creamy and thick. Really. That’s all you have to do. No really, thats it!

Refrigerate for a few hours and serve!