Caramelized banana spring roll

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      45 min

Appears in

By Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman

Published 2000

  • About

A super-dessert, and not all that complicated. It begins with a coconut frangipane—a creamy mixture of dried coconut, sugar, and butter—combined with bananas cooked as in the other recipes here. Then they’re combined in a spring roll wrapper and deep-fried to make a sweet, crisp, creamy, hot dessert.

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup unsweetened dried coconut
  • ¼ cup sugar, or more to taste
  • 6

Method

  1. Combine the coconut, sugar, 4 tablespoons of the butter, the flour, and egg and beat with a whisk or electric mixer until quite white, about 5 minutes. Taste and add more sugar if necessary; it should be slightly sweet.
  2. Cut the bananas in half the long way, then cut each half into 4 pieces. Place the remaining 2 tablespoons butter in a nonstick skillet and turn