Doce de Banana

Name: Doce de Banana
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Cap-Vert
Ingredients: 800 g — peeled ripe dessert bananas; 200 g — sugar; 30 g — lime juice; 100 ml — drinking water; 2 g — ground cinnamon

Doce de Banana — Prepared with peeled ripe dessert bananas, sugar, lime juice.

Ingredients

800 g — peeled ripe dessert bananas
200 g — sugar
30 g — lime juice
100 ml — drinking water
2 g — ground cinnamon

Preparation

Weigh peeled edible fruit or pumpkin flesh.

Cut evenly and combine with sugar, lime and water in a heavy saucepan.

Heat gently to dissolve sugar, then simmer about 30 minutes, stirring often; mash partly if desired.

Test a cooled spoonful: thick but spreadable.

Add listed cinnamon.

Cool promptly in a clean container and refrigerate up to 5 days or freeze.

This is not a shelf-stable canning recipe.