Caramelized bananas with butterscotch rum sauce

Name: Caramelized bananas with butterscotch rum sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: a glug of dark rum; 20 g unsalted butter; grated zest of ½ unwaxed lime; 25 ml double cream; a generous pinch of grated nutmeg; juice of 1 lime; 4 bananas, peeled and halved lengthways; 3-4 tablespoons water; 100 g caster sugar; 100 ml double cream; 30 g fridge-cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

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By Valentine Warner

Published 2014

About

Probably my favourite pudding.

Ingredients

20 g unsalted butter
4 bananas, peeled and halved lengthways
a glug

Sauce
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

To make the butterscotch rum sauce, heat a saucepan and add the sugar and water. Leave to caramelize over a medium heat, swirling the pan until the mixture starts to turn a dark golden colour. Once the caramel is golden, remove the saucepan from the heat and whisk in the cream, being careful of the spitting caramel.
When the cream is mixed in, add the butter, c