Green Banana Nut Cutlets – Vegan & Free-From
Stay there… don’t run away! 😛 This recipe intrigued me when I first heard about it from Zeba @FoodfortheSoul 🙂 So I went out and sourced green bananas! Not plaintains- actual green bananas!!! If you’ve never had green bananas they are sticky! They are impossible to peel and they are rock solid! However, let that not put you off – once peeled (I used a vegetable peeler)! and cooked, they transform into something wonderful!
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- Green bananas
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- Green banana skins – I found using a vegetable peeler easiest!
These are crunchy, slightly spicy, delicious morsels of … deliciousness! 😀 Pair them with a cooling minty yogurt dressing (I used coyo vegan yogurt) and you’re good to go! 🙂 Apparently green bananas are used frequently in numerous cuisines around the world, not least by my best friends family in Bangladesh… well I never! I didn’t know that!!! 😀 Green banana curry is apparently delicious and hopefully I’ll get around to making that soon!
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- Delicious drizzled with a minty yogurt dressing
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- Green banana nut cutlets served on mixed leaves
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- Such a delicous combination of flavours
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- Roughly chop the nuts
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- Add the coriander and spice mix to the nuts
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- Add the green banana and process until naturally reforming
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- Shape into cutlets, balls or burgers.
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- Bake until golden and crispy!
The look so awesome…thanks for trying it out . Love your version 🙂
They are so delicious Zeba 🙂 Thanks so much for posting the recipe 🙂 Hubby bought me more green bananas as I ‘need’ some more of these! 😀
That’s so nice of him… Haha :). I hope you can now cook them with the peel on so it will be easier. Sorry for omitting that in the original.
Oh lol.. can I do that? Does it change the taste of them?.
I love green banana or plaintain 🙂 I make curry or a simple roast with it as a side for rice! This looks yumm 🙂
They are indeed yummy – I’m going to make some more for the freezer so I always have some on hand! Ooo for roasting green bananas 🙂 I wish I’d thought of that! I roasted some butternut squash, potatoes and other veg for our girls lunch today 🙂 Do you roast it just the same as you would roast anything else?
Yes you can and you not have to fight the peel 😉
Oh and please do remove the peel before mixing and mashing – otherwise it really would change the taste for the worse 🙂 🙂
😀 I surely will… if I’d known I could cook them in their skins then I probably would have made about 5 batches of these already! 😛 Thanks again!
Excellent… I’m tempted to try one now on its own! 😛
This is such a brilliant idea – thanks for sharing! I’ve not seen anything like these before.
Thanks Kari 🙂 They are so good. I’m making some more tomorrow 🙂 Green banana might just be one of my new favourite ingredients!
Hi! I’ve never tried green bananas! Nor have I tried any banana dish that’s savory. So interesting! Thank you for sharing 🙂
I hadn’t either! Green bananas are so different to regular bananas and contain loads of nutrients! It just intrigued me and these are so delicious – almost falafel like! 😀 Thanks for reading 🙂