Green banana salad (caribbean)

8 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 mediums Bananas, green (unripe), peeled
2 cups Water
1 pinch Salt, or more, optional
Lemon juice, spray
1 small Cucumber, with peel, thinly sliced (1/8\")
1 medium Ripe tomato, chopped, reserve the juice for salad dressing
1 large Celery stalk, halve lengthwise and thinly sliced
2 mediums Carrots, finely shredded
1 Avocado, peel pit cube
Lemon juice, sprayed on avocado
8 tablespoons Fat-free Southwestern Salad Dressing, (see link) thinned with reserved tomato juice
Honey-roasted sunflower seeds, optional garnish
8 Whole wheat dinner rolls, warmed

Directions

DRESSING

For the dressing: add fat-free dressing to the reserved tomato juice to make one-tablespoon per serving.

Heat water in skillet; sprinkle in a little salt; reduce heat and add the bananas; simmer about 2 minutes per side. Drain and cool (with cold tap water on gentle spray). Spray with a little fresh lemon juice and set aside to air-dray. While drying, chop and slice. Assemble the salad. Add up to ½ cup of thinned dressing. Cut bananas into ½-inch slices and incorporate into salad. Then add the finely shredded carrot and toss. Chill for 1 to 3 hrs and serve with seeds or wheat-germ and/or a whole wheat dinner roll with added grains and seeds.

*TIP: Instead of frying the bananas or plantains, this recipe boils them.

If boiled too long or vigorously, the bananas brown and distintegrate. It happens fast. *PANTRY: Plaintains may be used. We use a (nearly) fat-free Southwest style (tomato and red bell pepper) vinaigrettes bottled by Brianna. *LINK: Fat-Free Italian Salad dressing. *VARIATION: Asian soy ginger salad dressing thinned with with selzer or ginger ale or fresh orange juice. * Heat it up with a drop of hot sauce or a little minced fresh jalapeno.

Edited for MasterCook software by phannema@... and sent to Eat-lf mailing list on 4/23/97. MC estimates 160 cals, 4½ g fat; 23⅖%.

Recipe by: Betty Crocker's International Cookbook (1980) Posted to Digest eat-lf.v097.n108 by PATh <phannema@...> on Apr 23, 1997

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