Grilled Bananas #recipe from Molly MacRae

 

Earlier this month, Ang Pompano shared his recipe for grilled melon. It looks amazing! It also made me realize that we hadn’t grilled bananas even once this summer. We probably wouldn’t fire up the grill just for bananas, but if we have the fire going, anyway, then the bananas take very little time to prepare and only add about five minutes to the total grilling. 

This recipe is a team effort at our house. I get the bananas ready. Mike, my husband, is Mr. Grill. The result is a delicious scoopable dessert. 

Grilled Bananas

Serves 4 (easily multiplied or divided)

 

Ingredients

2 bananas 

1/4 cup brown sugar (a tablespoon per banana half)

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/8 teaspoon ground ginger

 

Directions

Ready your grill so the coals are hot and glowing.

Remove any stickers from the bananas, cut off the stems, and wash the skins. Slice the bananas in half lengthwise, leaving the fruit in the skin.

In a small bowl, mix the sugar, cinnamon, and ginger. Spread a tablespoon of the mixture over the cut surface of each banana half.

Transfer the prepared banana halves to the grill – skin side down. 

Depending on the heat of your fire, grill the bananas for about 5 minutes. Mike put the lid on the grill for several of those minutes. The bananas are ready when the sugar is melting and the fruit is soft and pulling away from the skin.

Lift the bananas carefully from the grill using a spatula (or two).

Serve the banana halves with spoons to scoop the warm, spicy, sugary fruit right from the skin. Yum!  

 Click here for a free, printable pdf of the recipe!

How about a little armchair, cozy mystery travel? First stop, Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, in the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries.

 

Or how about the Scottish Highlands in the Highland Bookshop Mysteries?

 

You can also spend time in northeast Tennessee in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries, two stand-alone mysteries, and a collection of short stories.

 

Or travel from Cape Cod on the east coast to Monterey on the west coast, with a stop in Ohio along the way in my very gentle mysteries written as Margaret Welch. 

Happy reading!

 

 

The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Visit Molly on Facebook and Pinterest and connect with her on Instagram or Bluesky.