One of the highlights of my visit to New Orleans was a trip to Brennan’s restaurant. Established in 1946 it is one of New Orleans most loved restaurants and many of it’s signature dishes have become famous worldwide. After an amazing meal we were shown how to make the world famous Bananas Foster, a dramatically flambéed dessert of bananas and rum served with ice cream. To this day it remains the restaurants most requested dish and thirty five thousand bananas are flamed each year to create this delicious dessert. This is my take on the classic, taking all those wonderful flavours and combining them in this rich tart
For the pastry:
110g of cold butter, cut in cubes
1 tbsp of caster sugar
A pinch of salt
1 large free range egg, beaten
1 tsp of vanilla extract
175g of plain flour
A little cold water if required
Filling:
6 large egg yolks
150g of sugar
150g of butter
1 tsp of vanilla extract
1/2 tsp of cinnamon
75g of plain flour
2 tbsp of white rum
2 bananas, peeled, sliced
Whipped cream, dulché de leche, caramelised banana slices to serve
Mixing bowl
Small pot
Baking beans
Pie dish