Fried Bananas With Sugar 'n' Rum

Total Time: 18 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/4 cup superfine sugar
• 3 tablespoons dark rum (cap'n morgan of course!)
• 5 tablespoons sweet unsalted butter
• 1 lime, juice and zest of
• 4 bananas, firm, ripe, peeled, left whole
• real vanilla ice cream, to serve (tillamook of course!)

Recipe

• 1 tip: to make your own superfine sugar, place the sugar in a clean coffee mill or mini-chopper. blend until crystals are fine but still "sparkle". be sure not to blend too long, or the sugar will turn to powdered sugar.
• 2 over low heat in a large, heavy pan, combine the sugar, rum, butter, lime zest and lime juice.
• 3 cook for a few minutes, stirring often to avoid burning. cook until the sugar has dissolved.
• 4 add the bananas to the pan, turning to coat them with the sugar/rum mixture.
• 5 increase heat to medium, and cook the bananas for about 5 minutes or until the bananas are a beautiful golden color.
• 6 remove bananas from pan and cut in half lengthwise.
• 7 for each serving, place two banana slices on a dessert plate. serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and generous drizzle of the hot sugar/rum sauce.