Jamaican Curried Banana

Name: Jamaican Curried Banana
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Jamaican
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 2 stock cubes; 1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 carrot, peeled and roughly chopped; 1 Scotch bonnet chilli pepper, whole (optional); 2 bananas (preferably greener ones), peeled and roughly chopped; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1½ teaspoons curry powder; 1 tablespoon olive oil or butter; 1 sweet potato, peeled and roughly chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Seasonal Soups

By Fraser Reid

Published 2019

About

Please trust us on this one – it’s delicious! We like to serve it and let people guess what the ingredients are: they are so confused when you tell them it’s banana soup. You can top each bowl with some banana chips if you want to give the game away. The Scotch bonnet chilli pepper is optional, but it gives a real Caribbean kick.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil or butter
1 onion, peeled and roughly chopped
2

Americas
Jamaica
Soup
Caribbean
Summer
June
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Heat a pot on a medium-low heat and add the oil or butter. Add the onion and garlic and fry for 5–10 minutes until soft.

Stir in the carrot, sweet potato and curry powder, giving everything a good mix, and then put in the chopped bananas.

Pour in 1.2 litres of boiling water along wi