Banana Crumble

Banana Crumble

Have you ever wondered why you see crumble recipes for berries, pears, apples…just about any fruit but bananas?  We generally just don’t think about bananas when we think about fruit desserts like, crisps or crumbles. I wonder if it’s because we don’t think they would hold up to being baked?

Well, I can tell you first hand after making this Banana Crumble that they can and did hold up very well. I think the ripeness of the bananas being used has a lot to do with that.  

We’re used to using very ripe bananas for baking, the blacker the better as a matter of fact.  When you make a Banana Crumble, you want the banana to be ripe as far as being a nice bright yellow without any green on it or any signs of starting to over ripen. That’s the perfect banana for this recipe.  Now, let’s gather the ingredients and make Banana Crumble together.

Banana Crumble Ingredients:

Topping:

• 1/4 cup light or dark brown sugar
• 4 Tablespoons cold butter, cut into cubes
• 1/4 cup old fashioned oats
• 1/4 cup all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup toasted pecans

Filling:

• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup light or brown sugar
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 Teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/8 Teaspoon salt
• 6 medium size bananas, cut into chunks about an inch or an inch and a half long
• Vanilla Ice Cream or Whipped Topping as a garnish

Banana Crumble: The Steps

The recipe came together very quickly, the topping is made first and refrigerated. To make the topping place the light or dark brown sugar, old fashioned oats, all purpose flour and butter in a medium size bowl.  Work the ingredients together with your fingers until they become crumbly. Add the toasted pecans to the bowl and stir to mix them into the other ingredients. Refrigerate the topping while we make the filling.

Melt two Tablespoons of butter over low heat in a 10 inch cast iron skillet or an oven safe skillet. Add the brown sugar and stir until it dissolves, about 3 minutes. The ingredients together will look like a wet mass of sugar that slides around the pan. Stir in the cinnamon and salt. Add the orange juice carefully, it will sizzle up and splatter a little bit. Cook the mixture about one minute until it thickens slightly.  Add the banana chunks to the skillet and toss them gently until they are well coated.

Let me just say here that I was excited to make this crumble, that excitement went up about ten notches when I was cooking the butter/brown sugar, cinnamon mixture.  The moment I poured the orange juice in the pan it danced around and released an amazing aroma, all I could think of was…I want to know what that wonderful scent tastes like. 

Spread the bananas and sauce out evenly in the pan. Remove the skillet from the stove and sprinkle the topping over the bananas evenly. Place the skillet in a preheated 350 degree oven and bake until the topping is golden brown about 20 minutes. 

The Result

While I waited I scooped out the ice cream and put the scoops in the freezer in anticipation of having a lovely dessert to accompany them.    Time was up!  Out it came, I stood and marveled at it, the oats, the pecans, the golden bananas…but I just needed a small taste. So I ate from the pan totally amazed at the flavors and textures I was tasting.  I forgot all about the ice cream.  Banana Crumble, add it to your “must try” list and  Enjoy!

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Banana Crumble

A delicious banana dessert served with ice cream or whipped cream.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: #dessert, banana, bananacrumble

Servings: 6

Author: Mary Malone

Ingredients

• Topping
• 1/4 cup light or dark brown sugar
• 1/4 cup old fashioned oats
• 1/4 cup flour
• 4 Tablespoons cold butter cut into cubes
• 3/4 cup pecans toasted
• Filling
• 2 Tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup light or brown sugar
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 6 medium size bananas not thin slices, cut into chunks about an inch long
• Vanilla Ice Cream or Whipped Topping

Instructions

For the topping

• Combine all the topping ingredients ( except pecans) in a medium size bowl and work them together with your fingers until they become crumbly. Add the toasted pecans to the bowl. stir to mix. Refrigerate the topping while you make the filling.

For the Filling

• In a ten inch cast iron skillet or oven safe skillet, melt 2 tablespoons of butter over low heat. Add the brown sugar and stir until it dissolves about 3 minutes. It will become a wet looking mass of sugar that slides around the pan. Stir in the cinnamon and salt. Add the orange juice, be careful it will sizzle up and splatter a little bit. Cook about one minute until it thickens slightly.
• Add the banana chunks and toss gently until they are coated. Spread the bananas and sauce out evenly in the pan. Remove the skillet from the stove,sprinkle the topping evenly over the bananas. Put the skillet in a 350 degree preheated oven and bake until topping is golden brown about 20 minutes. Let cool in the pan about 10 minutes before topping with vanilla ice cream Or Whipped cream.

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