Bananas are a staple of Australian fruit bowls and lunchboxes, and whereas scrumptious on their very own, they can be used to create a variety of tasty treats.
Forward of Nationwide Banana Day on Might 1, and amid a 20 per cent drop in sales, the trade has launched two advertising and marketing campaigns to encourage Australians to place bananas again on the menu.
However for some folks, they by no means left. From not ripe to overripe bananas, they have a recipe.
Banana bread is a technique you’ll be able to take pleasure in your overripe bananas.(Dennis Wilkinson/ Flickr CC BY-NC-SA)
One thing sweeter?
There’s nothing like banana cake. Ms Hackett ices hers with lemon-flavoured butter icing.
Eileen and Veronica Fatnowna make banana cassava, a conventional South Sea Islander dish.(ABC Tropical North: Tegan Philpott)
Not fairly ripe but?
The Fatnowna household in North Queensland makes a South Sea Islander dish known as inexperienced banana and coconut.
Eileen and Veronica Fatnowna say it’s historically eaten with tinned tuna.
As soon as served, inexperienced banana and coconut takes the feel and look of a glazed banana. (Equipped)
One thing completely different?
Banana cassava is historically cooked over a hearth, however could be completed in an air fryer.(Equipped)
Banana cassava is a conventional South Sea Islander dish.
It’s historically cooked over a hearth, however it takes half-hour in an air fryer.
The Fatnowna household says to peel the cassava so the pores and skin and the primary layer of flesh comes off, in any other case it may be toxic.
Nevertheless, you too can purchase cassava already peeled and grated from some speciality meals retailers.
Cassava is a nutty-flavoured, starchy root vegetable native to South America. (ABC Tropical North: Tegan Philpott)
Fruit salad and lunchboxes
And, after all, bananas can be loved simply as they’re.
Paul Inderbitzin, who grew up on a farm on Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands, and whose household has been a part of the trade for near 30 years, says there are tons of — perhaps 1000’s — of banana varieties out within the wild.
He has some suggestions for selecting one of the best banana for a fruit salad or lunchbox, however it’s a tricky option to nominate a favorite.
“The standard Cavendish does me simply high-quality,” Mr Inderbitzin says.
“The great outdated sugar banana, they’re good and brief and good for the lunchbox.”
Nationwide Banana Day is well known on Might 1. (ABC Tropical North: Tegan Philpott)
