Caramelized banana spring roll

Name: Caramelized banana spring roll
Prep time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Ingredients: 6 tablespoons butter; ¼ cup unsweetened dried coconut; ¼ cup sugar, or more to taste; 1 egg; 2 tablespoons flour; 1 egg yolk, beaten; Confectioners’ sugar; 1 tablespoon brown sugar; 4 ripe bananas, peeled; Oil for deep-frying; 8 spring roll wrappers, 8 inches square

Preparation info

Makes
4
servings

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Simple to Spectacular

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

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.
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