Banana puree: options for preparing dessert, complementary feeding for a child and preparing banana puree for the winter

What bananas to use

The type of bananas and their size have absolutely no effect on the final result. Banana puree will be tender and tasty. It is important when choosing fruits to pay attention to their quality and ripeness.

To prepare baby food, it is best to take bananas that are slightly unripe, without dark spots on the skin. It is even permissible to use fruits with barely noticeable greenery near the stalk. The pulp of such bananas is dense, without darkening or looseness.

If bananas are selected for harvesting for future use, then you can use fruits with darkened peel, without visible damage to the pulp. Brown areas must be cut off.

How to make a delicious banana dessert

Peel a bunch of bananas (4-5 pieces). Cut the pulp of all fruits into wheels 6-7 millimeters thick.Leave some banana rings (6-8 pieces) for decoration, beat the rest with a blender until smooth. Add 1 tablespoon of honey and the juice of one lemon to the resulting puree. Blend the puree for another 30 seconds.

Fry 2 tablespoons of peeled hazelnuts in a dry frying pan. Grind the cooled kernels into crumbs in a blender.

Fry the remaining banana rings in a frying pan until browned on both sides.

Place the finished puree into bowls with a wide bowl. Stick a few wheels of fried bananas on top and sprinkle the dessert with chopped nuts.

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Banana puree for children

Simple recipe without additives

Ripe bananas are peeled and mashed until smooth. For this manipulation, you can use a fine grater, sieve, food processor or blender. The more homogenized the mass, the thinner the puree will be.

With added water

If the child is very small and accepts complementary foods only with a very liquid consistency, then the banana puree is diluted with the required amount of warm boiled water.

It is best to start giving your baby banana puree using boiled fruit. To do this, pieces of banana pulp are first boiled in a small amount of water for 7-8 minutes. For one average fruit, 50 milliliters of liquid will be enough. Then the boiled slices are pureed until smooth and cooled to an acceptable temperature before serving.

With added milk

From the age of one, banana puree can be diluted with boiled milk. To do this, drain excess liquid from boiled bananas and add hot boiled milk instead. The mass is crushed with a blender or fork and served.

With added juice

If the child is not allergic to citrus fruits, then baby banana puree can be diluted with freshly squeezed orange juice. In this case, banana pulp can be used either raw or boiled.

Baked bananas

Wash two peeled bananas thoroughly under running water. Line a small heatproof bowl with foil or baking paper. The peeled fruits are placed in a baking container. Keep bananas in an oven preheated to 120 degrees for half an hour. After this, the fruits are removed and cleaned. It is better to do this over a bowl in which the pulp will be pureed in the future, in order to preserve the resulting juice as much as possible. It is very tasty and aromatic. You can also drain the juice from the baking container.

Then add 100 milliliters of water to the banana pulp and grind the fruit to a puree.

The finished complementary food is brought to a boil over medium heat and cooled to a temperature of 37-38 degrees.

Mashed bananas with apples for the winter

Banana puree can be prepared for future use. To do this, take one kilogram of bananas and two ripe apples. It is best to use sour apple varieties, for example, Antonovka.

Apples and bananas are peeled and cut as desired. The slices are crushed to a puree using a blender or food processor. You can also grate the fruit on a fine grater, but in this case the finished dish will have grains.

Add two two-hundred-gram glasses of water and three glasses of sugar of the same volume to the crushed banana-apple mass. The juice of two lemons is also poured into the fruit puree. The puree is put on fire for 30 minutes.

While the puree is cooking, remove the foam from it several times.The finished hot banana dessert is poured into sterile jars and tightly sealed with boiled lids.

Store this preparation for a year in any dark and cool place.