Never let green bananas stand between you and a fresh loaf of banana bread.
, only to be stuck with a bunch of green bananas. In a perfect world, we'd simply pull a bag of overripe bananas from the freezer, but real-world stockpiles aren't always so reliable. On those occasions, we're left with few choices: hold off on banana bread, make do with greenish fruit, or fake ripeness by baking the bananas.
Fortunately, I've figured out a fourth option. A simple trick that takes bananas from starchy to sweet in just 30 minutes, without any weird ingredients or major investments of time. In fact, all you need is an egg. Well, technically, just a yolk, which sounds kinda crazy, so bear with me as we dig into the backstory here.Unripe bananas have a carbohydrate content of around 22%, which can be broken down into roughly 14% starch and 8% sugar. Yuck.
As previously mentioned, you can simply let nature take its course and ripen a banana over time. You can also try to speed things up by sticking the bunch in a paper bag to trap ethylene and hasten the production of amylase, but even that takes a while. Which got me thinking: Why wait? Amylase occurs naturally in egg yolks, and it's the very thing that can reduce a beautifully thick lemon meringue pie to a weepy mess in a matter of hours. That's why most recipes will have you cook a starch-thickened custard until it's bubbling-hot. The eggs and starch will set up nicely at much lower temperatures, but it's all for naught if the amylase isn't denatured .
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