Barbecue Thai Style Bananas. Bring A Bit Of Tropicana To Your Barbecue

Traditional Thai food is cooked on an open charcoal stove and meat and chicken are frequently barbecued. The Thai people rarely end a meal with an elaborate dessert but with the abundance of bananas in Thailand, the wide range of Thai dishes that include bananas, and their method of cooking, it's no wonder that a favourite dessert is barbecued Thai style bananas. Once you've tried Thai style bananas it'll become a firm favourite. It looks great and tastes even better, and the children love it.

From a health point of view, bananas contain high levels of natural sugars which are a better source of energy than foods that contain refined sugar. Bananas contain a good amount of potassium which helps redress our typically high salt diet. Bananas are often regarded as a super food!

Tip - don't store bananas in the fridge, as their skins will turn black! Keep them at room temperature, or in a cool place.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time 8 minutes minutes

Serves 6
6 medium sized bananas

For the sauce
3 tablespoons of shredded, fresh, coconut
60 g (2 oz) of unsalted butter
1 tablespoon of grated ginger root
The grated zest of 1 orange
60 g (2 oz) of unsalted butter
4 tablespoons of lime juice
6 tablespoons of Cointreau or Grand Marnier
3 teaspoons of sesame seeds

1. Place the bananas, unpeeled, on a grill over hot coals. Cook for about 8 minutes, turning frequently, until the skins are blackened.

2. While the bananas are cooking, heat a small non-stick frying pan until hot. Add the coconut and fry for about 1 minute until lightly coloured, stirring constantly. Remove from the pan and allow to cool.

3. Place the bananas on serving plates and cut one segment of the skin away so that they are boat like in shape.

4. Heat the butter in a frying pan until it melts. Add the ginger and orange zest. Mix well for 1 to 2 minutes until the mixture becomes sticky. Add the Cointreau or Grand Marnier and stir well to blend. Ignite with a taper and allow the flames to die down.

5. Pour the sauce over the bananas where the segment of skin has been removed. Sprinkle with the coconut and sesame seeds.

Variation
For an extra special treat serve your barbecue Thai style barbecue bananas with scoops of coconut or praline flavoured ice cream. Or both!!

We hope that you enjoy this Thai style bananas recipe. Please come back again as we're adding more recipes all of the time. Or even better, sign up for our free newsletter, Chargrill Chat, and be the first to know about new recipes as we add them.

If you enjoyrd this Thai style bananas recipe, please www.barbecuehut.com

From a health point of view, bananas contain high levels of natural sugars which are a better source of energy than foods that contain refined sugar. Bananas contain a good amount of potassium which helps redress our typically high salt diet. Bananas are often regarded as a super food!

Tip - don't store bananas in the fridge, as their skins will turn black! Keep them at room temperature, or in a cool place.

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time 8 minutes minutes

Serves 6
6 medium sized bananas

For the sauce
3 tablespoons of shredded, fresh, coconut
60 g (2 oz) of unsalted butter
1 tablespoon of grated ginger root
The grated zest of 1 orange
60 g (2 oz) of unsalted butter
4 tablespoons of lime juice
6 tablespoons of Cointreau or Grand Marnier
3 teaspoons of sesame seeds

1. Place the bananas, unpeeled, on a grill over hot coals. Cook for about 8 minutes, turning frequently, until the skins are blackened.

2. While the bananas are cooking, heat a small non-stick frying pan until hot. Add the coconut and fry for about 1 minute until lightly coloured, stirring constantly. Remove from the pan and allow to cool.

3. Place the bananas on serving plates and cut one segment of the skin away so that they are boat like in shape.

4. Heat the butter in a frying pan until it melts. Add the ginger and orange zest. Mix well for 1 to 2 minutes until the mixture becomes sticky. Add the Cointreau or Grand Marnier and stir well to blend. Ignite with a taper and allow the flames to die down.

5. Pour the sauce over the bananas where the segment of skin has been removed. Sprinkle with the coconut and sesame seeds.

Variation
For an extra special treat serve your barbecue Thai style barbecue bananas with scoops of coconut or praline flavoured ice cream. Or both!!

We hope that you enjoy this Thai style bananas recipe. Please come back again as we're adding more recipes all of the time. Or even better, sign up for our free newsletter, Chargrill Chat, and be the first to know about new recipes as we add them.

If you enjoyrd this Thai style bananas recipe, please www.barbecuehut.com

Les runs The Barbecue Hut website that provides useful information about barbecue grills and smokers, and also includes a wide selection of recipes.
He is also author of The Char Grill Chat newsletter.
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CRM (customer relationship management) software costs upwards of $325,000 with additional integration costs of up to $100,000 and according to a recent Interactive Week Magazine article,

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2777006,00.html

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What it means in reality is that users of datamining software can send innapropriate promotions to people that may be confused, may be offended and certainly annoyed by their material even when it was requested, as it was in this case. You've taken a potential sale and turned it into a blunder. What does that do for lifetime customer value? How about return on investment figures with that?

I have a hosted application that can provide you incorrect and mixed-up customer data mining which cost only $60,000 yearly to host for you! I'd sure like to see the ROI (Return on investment) generated by that chunk of change! I also have a bridge for sale.

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I visit an online book seller to buy a cookbook for my nephew, who is considering attending a culinary college. The confirmation page is prompted by the datamining software to display an advertisement for a recipe site when the purchase is completed, I'm not interested in that so I jump to my favorites and click on Yahoo, where I notice a banner ad for power tools and recall that I need a new reversible drill to help repair my patio deck.

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I return to my online book seller the following week to look up a book my wife is interested in about flower gardening and buy it for her. Based on my previous purchase of the cookbook and combined with this purchase the CRM software figures I enjoy cooking and gardening and serves up an ad on the confirmation page for a Martha Stewart video on vegetable gardening. I'm not interested in that and jump over to Yahoo to look up the latest sports scores and I'm served an advertisement for barbecue grills.

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The book seller is incorrect because I haven't bought a single book that interests me. Yahoo has me pegged, but guess what? The only value they have gained is increased ad revenue, which only benefits companies that generate huge traffic and create unwavering visitor loyalty. What if I switch my home page to iWon from Yahoo?

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