Green Banana Porridge
Green banana porridge is a low fuss, high fibre breakfast.
Many of the traditional recipes for green banana porridge blitz the raw green bananas and other ingredients and then bring the mixture to the boil. My preference is to steam the bananas first, blitz all the other ingredients and return the mixture to heat. I feel it makes the porridge a bit smoother but does it really make a difference? 🤷🏾♀️ It DOES make peeling the banana a lot easier! In this recipe I used:
3-4 green bananas
1 ripe banana
Coconut milk (optional)
Water
Raisins
Cinnamon
There is no added sugar (or condensed milk), as the raisins and ripe banana provide more than enough sweetness. Add the water and coconut milk to your preferred consistency.
I put half of the mixture in the fridge for the next day 😋
In my youth, while working in retail administration on Oxford Street, I was asked or coerced into doing a stock take once the store had closed one evening. For reasons that, to this day, baffle me, the stock take took all night. The manager gave our small team cash to get a cab home. I emerged onto an eerily quiet Oxford Street, with the sun peeking over the buildings.
I managed to raise my tired arm to hail a black cab. The driver pulled over. I told him where I wanted to go and I slumped into the seat ready to be whisked off to my warm, comfortable bed. Before I could properly settle in, I saw the cab driver hesitate. Then he turned around to me and said, “You’ll need to pay up front.” I beg your pardon?!