a banana related question

[ratcreature]

I have a bunch of bananas that for some reason have just failed to turn from green to yellow, despite waiting quite a bit longer than that usually takes.

Could I cook or roast these unripe and just use them as a starchy thing, as if they were plantains? Would that work? Or would they still taste as gross as raw green bananas? I dislike that mouth coating feeling you get if you do try to eat them green.

I'm particularly thinking of oven roasting them in their skin in hopes to get that off more easily, but I never tried this.

Comments

[sillimarilli]

It never hurts to cook them, regardless of whether they get out of that starchy, suck all the moisture out of your mouth, phase.

Bananas Foster is a personal favorite - with or without the rum. Basically cut them up, saute in butter, add brown sugar and cook until bubbly - add cinnamon if you like, a little bit of vanilla extract if you like. Eat with or without vanilla ice cream. (Don't let the sugar sit in the pan or it'll be a pain to get out.)

[ratcreature]

That was actually close to what I did with two this morning. No rum, but I added some walnuts.

[sillimarilli]

Yum *drools*

:)