Baked Honey Bananas

Prep: 20min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 25min
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Crispy baked honey bananas with crunchy pastry edges! Bananas, as a low-fat nerve food, are a sweet highlight for an Asian menu.

Ingredients

  • 2 egg whites
  • 40 g Butter
  • 80 g cane sugar (4 tbsp)
  • 0.5 tsp cinnamon
  • 3 sheets filo dough (about 30 x 40 cm)
  • 4 firm bananas
  • 1 Lime
  • nutmeg
  • 2 tbsp liquid honey
  • 30 g chocolate (70% cocoa)
  • 4 tbsp yogurt (1.5% fat)

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Separate the eggs, set aside the yolks for another use. Melt 30 g butter and let it cool. In a small bowl whisk with the egg whites. Mix sugar and cinnamon together.

  2. 2.

    Cut the dough sheets in half so you have six rectangles about 15 x 40 cm each. Lay two rectangles side by side and brush lightly with the egg white mixture.

  3. 3.

    Sprinkle some cinnamon-sugar on top and lay one more sheet over it. Brush again with egg white, sprinkle cinnamon-sugar, and add another sheet on top.

  4. 4.

    Brush the top layer with egg white and dust with remaining cinnamon-sugar.

  5. 5.

    Cut each dough piece into four rectangles about 15 x 10 cm. Line a baking tray with parchment paper and place the dough pieces on it.

  6. 6.

    Bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C (convection: 180 °C, gas: level 3‑4) on the middle rack until golden brown. Remove and let cool on an oven rack.

  7. 7.

    Grease a casserole dish with the remaining butter. Peel the bananas and place them inside. Squeeze the lime and measure out 2 tbsp of juice.

  8. 8.

    Grate a little nutmeg into the mixture and stir in honey. Turn the bananas in the mixture and bake in the preheated oven at 200 °C (convection: 180 °C, gas: level 3‑4) for 12 minutes, turning once halfway through.

  9. 9.

    Shave the chocolate with a paring knife into fine shavings.

  10. 10.

    Place one baked pastry sheet on each of four plates and set one banana on top. Drizzle each with 1 tbsp yogurt and sprinkle with chocolate shavings. Cover with the remaining pastry sheets as lids and serve immediately.