The Jewish Cookbook

Roasted Bananas with Brown Sugar-Walnut Glaze
Thursday, 07.02.2009, 08:22am (GMT)

Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients:

  • 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons reduced-calorie margarine, melted
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 4 large bananas (about 1- 1/2 pounds)
  • Cooking spray
  • 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, toasted
  • 1 1/2 cups vanilla low- fat frozen yogurt

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
  2. Combine first 4 ingredients in a bowl, and set aside.
  3. Cut bananas in half lengthwise. Place banana halves, cut sides up, on a jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 450 degrees F for 4 minutes.
  4. Drizzle sugar mixture evenly over banana halves, and sprinkle with toasted walnuts. Bake an additional 3 minutes.
  5. Cut each banana piece into thirds crosswise. Serve bananas with frozen yogurt; drizzle with any remaining sugar mixture.

Serving Size: 4 banana pieces and 1/4 cup frozen yogurt

Linda Shapiro