Caramelised Bananas with Sugar Basket and Sugar Spirals

Watch top chef Nigel Brown prepare a quick banana dessert for you to copy that will impress your family or dinner guests.

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• food
• dessert
• banana
• sugar
• basket
• spirals
• caramel
• cooking
• recipe

[drummergirl64]

great idea ...i'd like to try this.....whats in the sugar? and what temp does it need to be.

[lisabrkr]

@drummergirl64 It's just caster sugar. Heat it in a pan until all the sugar crystals have dissolved and it goes a nice caramel colour. Let it cool slightly until it's the consistency of syrup and then scoop up a spoonful and weave backwards, forwards and around a ladle that's been lightly oiled with olive/rapeseed oil. The sugar will set instantly, twist the ladle onto your hand to remove your sugar basket. Take great care when working with molten sugar, it's approx 150 degrees.

[thibaulthalpern]

Darling, most of us home cooks do not have a blow torch. We need another recipe which can be used just on the stove top.

[lisabrkr]

Mini blow torches for the kitchen just like the one Nigel is using in this video can be purchased on the high street for about £5.00

If you prefer not to use one then you could simply put your sugar covered bananas on a baking tray under a hot grill until they caramelise.

Hope this helps :)

[sarzuf52]

haha that didn't work to well for me. i now have a burnt finger

[lisabrkr]

You poor thing, hope it's feeling a better now. Don't give up, it's really worth the effort. Thanks for commenting, I really appreciate it.

Lisa

[EYPcraig]

Excellent stuff, I'll certainly give it a try

[brkr747]

Wonderful idea, i'm going to try this at my dinner party next weekend. Great video A***

[trackerbacker]

or you could wait for the next nasa rocket launch. place the bananas under the rocket nozzle and wait till take off for lovely hot caramelized bananas

[zaxyblaze]

WHAT COOK HAS A DAMN BLOW TORCH!

[ijkoool69]

You should be on TV - you're much more personable than that Jamie Oliver twat !

[RylanTy]

Thanks for posting this video. May I please ask for the recipe and directions of how to make the caramelized sugar?

[Gschnok]

Wow, thanks really impressive, I might try it.

[thibaulthalpern]

Of course, I could always use a cigarette lighter....NOT!