What to have for dinner...
I had a craving for caramel...
Banoffee Pie!
My boyfriend has never had a banoffee pie, they aren't a lot of them around where we live.
This one had the full works, home made pastry, and home made caramel.
The pastry was a super simple one, I didn't make a sweet pastry as the filling is sweet enough.
Ingredients: (makes enough pastry for a pie crust that serves 2)
6 tablespoons of flour
3 tablespoons of oil
water
Method
-pre heat oven to 180 degrees C
-using my hands I combined the flour and oil until I had a breadcrumb type mixture
-I then added water teaspoon by teaspoon and mixed until I had a firm pastry dough
-I then rolled the pastry out to fit just over the pie dish and baked in the oven for 20-25min
Once the pastry was cooked, while it was still warm I broke a flake chocolate over the bottom of the crust. I packed it down, so that it melted slightly on the warm pastry.
I then cut a banana into thin pieces and laid it out on top of the chocolate.
Now onto the caramel.
I am rubbish at making caramel, I think I have only had one successful attempt. I am always on the lookout for low fat caramel recipes. I found one that only uses milk, sugar and salt so I gave it a go.
Ingredients:
100g sugar
125mL milk
1 teaspoon of salt
Method:
-it is best to use a heavy based, deep saucepan. Put the sugar in the saucepan over a low heat. Make sure the sugar is evenly spread over the base of the saucepan.
-dont stir the sugar while it is heating
-while the sugar is heating, warm the milk up in the microwave for about a minute, and stir so that the milk is evenly heated.
-once the sugar is a clear colour, watch carefully as everything happens very quickly. You need to wait until the sugar is a light brown colour. As soon as it reaches this colour take off the heat, add the salt and half of the milk, stirring continuously.
-the milk will bubble up and steam, keep stirring. Once the bubbling has stopped add the rest of the milk.
-I had some chunks of hard caramel in mine so I put it back on a low heat, and stirred continuously until the chunks had melted into the sauce. The sauce also thickened while it was over the heat.
I then poured the caramel over the banana, and put into the fridge for 15min, until it became chewy.
YUM!
I had a craving for caramel...
Banoffee Pie!
My boyfriend has never had a banoffee pie, they aren't a lot of them around where we live.
This one had the full works, home made pastry, and home made caramel.
The pastry was a super simple one, I didn't make a sweet pastry as the filling is sweet enough.
Ingredients: (makes enough pastry for a pie crust that serves 2)
6 tablespoons of flour
3 tablespoons of oil
water
Method
-pre heat oven to 180 degrees C
-using my hands I combined the flour and oil until I had a breadcrumb type mixture
-I then added water teaspoon by teaspoon and mixed until I had a firm pastry dough
-I then rolled the pastry out to fit just over the pie dish and baked in the oven for 20-25min
Once the pastry was cooked, while it was still warm I broke a flake chocolate over the bottom of the crust. I packed it down, so that it melted slightly on the warm pastry.
I then cut a banana into thin pieces and laid it out on top of the chocolate.
Now onto the caramel.
I am rubbish at making caramel, I think I have only had one successful attempt. I am always on the lookout for low fat caramel recipes. I found one that only uses milk, sugar and salt so I gave it a go.
Ingredients:
100g sugar
125mL milk
1 teaspoon of salt
Method:
-it is best to use a heavy based, deep saucepan. Put the sugar in the saucepan over a low heat. Make sure the sugar is evenly spread over the base of the saucepan.
-dont stir the sugar while it is heating
-while the sugar is heating, warm the milk up in the microwave for about a minute, and stir so that the milk is evenly heated.
-once the sugar is a clear colour, watch carefully as everything happens very quickly. You need to wait until the sugar is a light brown colour. As soon as it reaches this colour take off the heat, add the salt and half of the milk, stirring continuously.
-the milk will bubble up and steam, keep stirring. Once the bubbling has stopped add the rest of the milk.
-I had some chunks of hard caramel in mine so I put it back on a low heat, and stirred continuously until the chunks had melted into the sauce. The sauce also thickened while it was over the heat.
I then poured the caramel over the banana, and put into the fridge for 15min, until it became chewy.
YUM!
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