Uptown Bananas

Submitted by A Messy Cook

"A delicious, healthy (pretty much), easier-than-pie snack I invented one night when I had the munchies. Opportunities for variation are endless..."

 

• Ready In: 2mins
• Ingredients: 3
• Serves: 1

ingredients

• 1 small banana
• 2 tablespoons almond butter or 2 tablespoons peanut butter
• granola cereal

directions

1. Peel banana and slice lengthwise.
2. Spread 1 T of nut butter (or desired amount) on each banana half.
3. Sprinkle granola over one banana half; press granola lightly to make it stick.
4. Top with second half and enjoy!
5. Some variation possibilities: spread with dulce de leche, cashew butter, hot fudge, even ricotta cheese-- sprinkle with granola, coconut, sunflower seeds, nuts, chocolate chips-- YUM!

Reviews

[UmmBinat]

DD1 (5 years old) rates this yummy.It is quite messy even with regular size organic bananas cut in half first. I found this a nice change from my usual apple paring with nut butter but I still prefer apples with it (I don`t love apples or bananas BTW). I used oalmond hazelnut butter (my favorite right now) by Nut`s to You, and Qia cereal by Nature`s Path as the granola, since we do not eat oats because of there similarity with gluten. Made for FEBRUARY'S SUN and SPICE EVENT, PRIME INGREDIENT CHALLENGE: Nut Butter.

 

[Maito]

I tried the original recipe and several of your alternate variations. The dulce de leche was my favorite spread, so that is what I am rating this on (I liked the peanut butter the least). All of the toppings were good with the dulce de leche, including the granola, which gave it a nice crunch.

 

[jewlmaker]

AWESOME idea!!! I didn't have granola on hand but used peanut butter and mini chocolate chips...SO GOOD! :o) My kids will love these too! Thanks so much--you're brilliant!

 

[LUVMY2BOYS]

This was so good! I used half a banana & used 1 tsp of Peanut butter/choc dip (rec#133431) as my spread. Of course, I do plan to use natural PB, or even vanilla yogurt, in the future! I used some chopped pecans, but will definitely try granola as my topping. I LOVE LOVE LOVE bananas & am always trying to find delicious ways to enjoy them. Thank you for sharing a new way to have my cake & eat it too! :-)

 

[Shabby Sign Shoppe]

After reading the reviews I had to try this! I used granola creamy JIF PB ... Yum!