pat's Recipe

Bananas Foster

Category: Fruits

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
4 firm ripe bananas, peeled and halved
lengthwise
1/4 cup darm rum
Vanilla ice cream for serving

Melt butter with sugar in a 12 in skillet over medium high heat. Cook, swirling skillet occasionally, until color deepens, about 3 minutes. Add bananas, cut sides down. Cook, swirling accasionally to make sure bananas are coated, 3 1/2 minutes. Flip bananas and cook 2 1/2 minutes more.
Remove skillet from heat. Add rum. Return to medium heat, and cook about 10 seconds to allow rum to heat up. If using a gas stove, carefully tip the pan away from you until the vapors from the rum ignite. (Alternatively, light the rum with a long match.) When the flames subside, remove pan from heat. Serve bananas topped with vanilla ice cream.

serves 4