Added: 10/17/2005 |
How to handle numerous banana drink recipes?Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors. The ripe fruit is easily peeled and eaten raw or cooked. Depending upon variety and ripeness, the flesh can be starchy to sweet, and firm to mushy. Grown in the warm, humid tropics, bananas are picked and shipped green; contrary to nature's norm, they are one fruit that develop better flavor when ripened off the bush. Banana bushes mature in about 15 months and produce one 50-pound bunch of bananas apiece.
You may drink fruit cocktails of all sorts, but no other fruit can add to your cocktail such a creamy texture as banana can. Banana is one of the best basic ingredients for daiquiris. There is one universal daiquiri, you may make it with any fruit, but Banana Daiquiri is highly recommended. Of course, tastes differ, but nevertheless, you could try just out of curiosity. If you are a real cocktail lover, you won't miss the chance.
Besides, banana enjoys its nourishment and plus it has potassium, which is an effective cramp killer - that's why cocktails for sportsmen are so often containing banana. By the way, there is a really impressive list of scientists' statements why does a banana a day keep the doctor away. If you don't believe, ask any doctor, and, besides, bananas are recommended as part of a recovery diet.
Not only bananas may be used in banana drink recipes. Other banana flavoured beverages are also be used as ingredients.
For instance, in many banana drink recipes you may find a banana liqueur. That is a yellow-colored liqueur made from a mixture of brandy and bananas. The most popular brands of banana liqueur are Bols Liqueur and Ramazzotti. Use them in Banana Boat (with tequila and lime juice), smoothies Banana Mama (with pineapple juice) and Banana Split, or frozen Banana Tree (with vanilla ice-cream).
Banana juice is not the most common ingredient in banana drink recipes. But nevertheless, you may use it preparing Cast Away, Kiba, Monkey Madness or stirred Southern Banana Mama with pineapple juice. Banana juice does not make such smooth cocktails as banana itself does; drinks are usually stirred or shaken. But cocktails with banana juice may be "blended until smooth" also with such rich or thick ingredients as cream of coconut.
Banana essence is also rarely used in popular drinks. Add 2 drops of banana essence to exotic Nikipumpin Mix with blackcurrant, orange and pineapple juices, 1 nutmeg seed and... a cucumber!
Creme de Banana (or Banana Creme Liqueur) - is also a creamy, sweet, banana-flavoured liqueur, often used in banana drink recipes. Probably it is the most popular banana-flavoured ingredient. There are more cocktails made with Creme de bananas then the ones with banana fruit. You may find almost 180 cocktail recipes oin the Internet. Don't be frightened with such a wide range of choice - on the Internet cocktails may be classified by anything you wish: title, rating, votes, calories, carbs, alcohol and sugar content.
Banana rum (for instance, Cruzan banana rum) is banana flavoured rum, which is used in Latin Love (with pineapple juice and cream of coconut) and stirred Southern Bahama Mama which has already been mentioned.
Bon appetite!
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