Wood Cooked Bananas

Mike Reid

Ingredients:

4 Lady Finger Bananas
Woodchips for smoking in a fire or hibachi

Dulce De Leche Creme:

2 Tbsp Dulce de leche
200ml Cream

Chocolate Sauce:

150ml full-fat milk
150ml double cream
300g dark chocolate, broken into pieces
1 tsp vanilla extract

To Serve:

1 tbsp Almonds, roasted

Method:

Cook your bananas in their skin, directly onto the coals until blackened.
Place the milk and cream in a saucepan. Heat until just boiling. Add the chocolate and vanilla, then remove from the heat and stir until melted and runny.
Whip the cream for the dulce de leche cream until soft peaks have formed, gently fold in the dulce.
To serve, cut open the banana to expose the flesh, serve with dulce creme and a small bowl of the chocolate sauce.

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