Banana Lime Marinade Recipes

BANANAS IN LIME SYRUP

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine the sugar and 2/3 cup water over medium-low heat. Stir occasionally, until the sugar dissolves. Pour into a bowl and cool.
• Finely grate the zest of the limes into the syrup. Squeeze in their juice and stir.
• Peel the bananas, thinly slice them and submerge in the syrup. Cover, and refrigerate for 1 to 6 hours.
• Serve with a few spoons of syrup or as a topping for ice cream.

BANANA LIME MARINADE

Steps:

• Make sure your bananas are ripe for this marinade.
• Green bananas won't work well at all.
• Peel bananas and put into the food processor, puree until smooth.
• Add the mayonnaise, yogurt, mustard, lime juice, tabasco, garlic, and green onion, and continue blending until thoroughly mixed.
• Transfer to a small bowl add honey, salt and pepper to taste and refrigerate until ready to use as marinade.
• You can make this up to eight hours in advance.
• Keep it tightly covered in the refrigerator.
• Good as a marinade for grilled shrimp, fish, and chicken!

GRILLED PINEAPPLE AND BANANA SAUCE WITH HONEY AND LIME

Steps:

• Place butter, honey, brown sugar, and lime juice in small saucepan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; add bean. Bring to simmer over medium heat, whisking until smooth. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 days ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Remove vanilla bean and rewarm sauce before using.
• Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Brush both sides of pineapple with some sauce. Grill 1 minute per side. Transfer to plate; cut into 1/2-inch cubes and place in large bowl, leaving juices behind. Mix remaining sauce into pineapple. Cut bananas into 1/2-inch chunks; fold into pineapple mixture.

CHILI LIME MARINADE

Steps:

• Whisk together oil, lime juice, cumin, chili powder and garlic in a large, shallow dish to make a marinade.
• Arrange meat or fish in dish and rub all over with marinade, then cover and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours, turning occasionally.

CARAMELIZED BANANA WITH RUM SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt butter in a 10-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides, then sauté banana, cut sides down, shaking skillet, 1 minute. Remove skillet from heat (away from flame) and sprinkle brown sugar around banana, then pour rum around banana. Return skillet to heat and continue to sauté, shaking skillet occasionally, until sugar begins to melt, about 30 seconds.
• Add water, nutmeg, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt and cook over moderate heat, shaking skillet occasionally, until sauce is slightly thickened, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Serve banana hot, sprinkled with nuts.

SOY LIME MARINADE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients and marinate with your choice of meat!
• Marinade for less than 2 hours for chicken or fish, and marinade no more than 4 hours for beef or pork. Use your judgment, DH and I like super strong flavors and will marinate for up to 8 hours.

CARIBBEAN BANANA LIME BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350. Grease a loaf pan.
• Cream together butter and sugar. Stir in eggs, banana, yogurt and lime juice. Add salt, ginger and coconut. Mix well.
• In a separate bowl, sift together dry ingredients. Add to the wet mixture and mix until smooth. Pour into loaf pan.
• Bake 1 hour or until done. Cool for 10 minute.
• Meanwhile, make the glaze. Combine the brown sugar, butter, rum and lime juice in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly for about 5 minutes or until it becomes a thin syrup.
• Pour over the cooled loaf and sprinkle with toasted coconut.

BANANA LIME CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 350F/180C degrees.
• Apply a light coating of cooking spray to the sides of an eight inch round baking pan and place a cut parchment sheet on the bottom.
• Sift together the flour, salt, and baking powder together into a large bowl. Mix in the lime zest and brown sugar. Form a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
• Mash the banana mixing with the lime juice to reduce browning. Pour the banana, lightly beaten egg, and yogurt into the dry ingredients until they are mix. Fold in the golden raisins. Pour using spoon the batter into the prepared baking pan smoothing the surface to even.
• Bake 40 minutes, testing so that a toothpick inserted in the center comes clean. Note that low-fat cakes suffer more when over-baked, then their conventional higher fat counterparts. Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack. Once the cake is cool, center on serving plate.
• To prepare icing, sift sugar into a bowl and add a pinch of salt. Add lime juice one teaspoon at a time until you arrive at your desired consistency for drizzling. Stir in the lime zest. Drizzle on cake as you wish, either randomly or in a pattern.

KEY LIME-BANANA SMOOTHIE

Steps:

• Place all ingredients except frozen yogurt in blender. Cover; blend on high speed until smooth.
• Add frozen yogurt. Cover; blend until smooth.

CILANTRO-LIME MARINADE

Steps:

• Toss all the ingredients into a mini food processor and pulse until combined.
• Marinate meat for 1/2 hour.
• Grill.
• Eat.
• Say: Yumm.

LEMON AND LIME MARINADE

Steps:

• Whisk marinade ingedients in small bowl --
• just use the juice from lemon and lime.sometimes I get a little zest from each one and include that as well --
• Pour some over chicken in resealable bag.marinate 1-2 hours or overnight.
• I put some marinade in a squeeze bottle for easy basting.