Jamaican banana porridge
Making Jamaican banana porridge is very simple and easy. This banana porridge is delicious and it makes a great breakfast for both children and adults.
Banana Porridge
If you never add banana porridge before you may be wondering what it is. Banana Porridge is a Jamaican breakfast, made with green bananas and flavorful milk and spices.
I am using fresh coconut milk, which may this porridge recipe suitable for vegans. I personally love coconut milk in banana porridge but any milk of your choice can go into this porridge.
Banana porridge is much like making plantain porridge, which also tastes great and very easy to make!
The Ingredients
The few ingredient that you need to make banana porridge are:
- Green banana: A must
- Fresh coconut milk: I use freshly made coconut milk but canned coconut works also. And you don’t have to use coconut, any fresh milk of your choice works as will.
- Vanilla, nutmeg, salt, cinnamon: Essential spices.
- Sugar, condensed milk: Use either or, or both.
How To Make Jamaican Banana Porridge
You have to blend the banana before using it to make the porridge.
Traditionally the banana is grated and not blended. Green banana is very soft so this is still done, but the porridge is not as smooth.
Green banana porridge is not a very thick porridge and so oatmeal is often added to the blender to help make the porridge thicker. In my opinion, it is better without the oats.
The next step is to add the blended banana to a pot of boiling water and let the banana cook for about ten minutes. Green banana is usually very easy to cook so the porridge shouldn’t take very long.
Then add the spices and sweeten to taste.
Vegan Banana Porridge
The banana porridge is very vegan friendly, all the ingredients that I use except for the condensed milk are plant base. You can substitute the condensed milk with vegan condensed milk.
If you don’t use sugar, you can your favourite sweetener or not use any at all because the condensed milk is sweet enough.
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Jamaican Banana Porridge
Ingredients
Method
- Add water, cinnamon and salt to a pot and bring to a boil on medium heat. If you are using ground cinnamon, add it to the pot along with the nutmeg and vanilla extract.
- Wash and peel the bananas. Cut them into pieces your blender can handle. Add the cut banana to a blender with the coconut milk and blend until smooth. If you want to go the traditional route, you would grate the banana. By grating the banana, the porridge will be less smooth.
- Pour the blended banana into the pot of boiling cinnamon-flavoured water. Using a whisk, stir continuously as the porridge thickens.
- Stir in the nutmeg and vanilla extract. Leave to cook for about 10 minutes without the lid.
- Turn the heat off. Sweeten with the condensed milk and sugar.
Nutrition
Notes
- Green banana: I used 6 very small bananas, which weighed about 1 lb., which is about 3 normal-sized bananas.
- Coconut milk: You can substitute the coconut milk for long-life cow’s milk or any other plant-based milk.
- Cinnamon: It doesn’t matter whether you use cinnamon leaves or sticks. You can also use ground cinnamon; add it to the pot with the nutmeg and vanilla extract.
- Sweeteners: You may need to use more sugar or condensed milk if you like your food really sweet. Start with the amount provided and go from there. Also, you can use one or the other if you don’t want to use both.
Thank you for sharing. I haven’t made banana porridge for a long time and needed and reminder.
love the recipes as i get to give it my kids to learn how to make there heritage dishes.
that’s very nice to hear. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing. I’m a person who loves my kitchen aswell.
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I recently to a trip to Jamaica & enjoyed it very much. The food was very good. I especially liked Festival & escove I also just moved to a new city. I had to find a Once home I figured I’d either spend a lot of money buying theThe recipe taste very good. I added a very little bit of oatmeal. The texture is not something that I’m used to so I’d have to add the oatmeal.
I recently to a trip to Jamaica & enjoyed it very much. The food was very good. I especially liked Festival & escove. The recipe taste very good. I added a very little bit of oatmeal. The texture is not something that I’m used to so I’d have to add the oatmeal.
Simple but delicious recipe. I used some cornmeal to thicken it a little, and cooked it a little longer.
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