FRIED BANANA PARFAIT
APRIL 07, 2020
If you follow me on Instagram you know I’ve taken Wednesday’s off work to give my toddler a full day of my undivided attention. Trying to juggle working, motherhood, and being a playmate and teacher for her during a pandemic has been hard on us both. Many days I give her the minimum of attention unfortunately. I saw her mental health being affected and as a parent you have to do whatever you can to make the wellbeing of your child top priority. I also acknowledge the privilege I have to be able to adjust my work schedule to accommodate a day off.
Sometimes we go out for a small adventure, like to the post office to mail some crafts to her great grandmother, and other times we stay home and do crafts and pre-school learning books. Regardless of what the day has in store for us, we always start Wednesday’s off with a “fancier” breakfast that she can help make. She loves to be hands on in the kitchen so I want to nurture and allow that love of baking, cooking or just helping out flourish in her. Honestly, the breakfasts are pretty simple, it’s just when she gets involved in helping make it, they become slower to prep than usual. We do blueberry or apple pancakes, French toast drizzled in chocolate sauce, scrambled eggs with all the breakfast fixings. This week I decided on parfaits, which she’s never had, but she loves her yogurt with granola.
Personally, I’ve never been a big fan of yogurt but I now realize it was the dairy in yogurt that put me off. Dairy just leaves this awful paste and taste on my tongue. I am currently obsessed with this plant based PC yogurt, I tried SILK’s and PC’s is WAY better.
To up the parfait game, I fried our banana chunks in coconut oil, it makes it taste like a banana bread no joke. I then baked the granola in the same pan with the residual coconut oil and added maple syrup for sweetness. This is heaven! I love how baking the granola with sticky syrup makes it a little chewier and stick together. We thoroughly enjoyed are parfaits, in Margarita glasses because I don’t have sundae cups, and it’s definitely one I can have her help make again or even just quickly whip up for her on a non-Wednesday morning.
Easy peasy recipe below, and I even measured it all out when I made it just for you all. If you look at any of my other recipe blog posts my measurements are zero. I’m an “by eye” chef.
These measurements are for making two parfaits, so increase to make more!
½ cup to 1 cup of yogurt of your choice
1 large banana
1 tsp coconut oil
½ cup of granola
2 tsp maple syrup
Other fruits of your choice, use your “by eye” as discretion. For us, I did strawberries because I like the way they compliment banana’s and used 3 bigger sized ones. I also topped mine with a tiny squeeze of honey.
Instructions:
Melt the coconut oil in a non-stick pan.
Add bananas. You don’t want to cook the bananas per say, just warm them. I’d say 30 seconds per side will do. You’ll see them getting a bit darker in colouring and mushier looking. I dusted with some cinnamon also.
While heating the bananas throw in your granola and stir around to coat with residual coconut oil. Add your maple syrup and stir some more. You want to let the maple syrup caramelize a little.
To assemble your parfaits – we started with yogurt as the first layer, strawberries, granola, fried bananas, then repeat. We did 2 layers total in our cups.
All that’s left after that is to enjoy! Check out our fun little reel here.