I have written about the making of  banana flour in previous posts and our main reason for doing this was for preservation.  From a completely practical point of view, if you are going to go through the trouble of processing (grating, drying and grinding), it is really important that you actually like eating it!

Hmmm….we were very dubious initially after making a banana flour pizza made from a recipe found on the Internet.  The recipe called for 4 cups of banana flour and when I  baked it in the oven, it came out like  stiff card-board…let’s say that if you threw it at somebody you could cause bodily harm.  We valiantly  put toppings on it and ate it like a pizza.

The next morning…and a few days after…we were totally constipated…

We then decided to do the math:

4 cups of flour is equal to 32 bananas

therefore, we ate the equivalent of 16 bananas each in one sitting.

Imagine eating 16 bananas all at once!  And worse still, without the water content of each banana!

This of course results in constipation!

Anyway, after that escapade, I was in no mood to make anything with this flour!   A few weeks later, I decided to use it up and make dog food …I didn’t even think about it…I just put a cup of flour in a pot of water and let it boil.  It actually came out like a nice porridge. Much to Gnome’s dismay, the tasty looking porridge was for the dogs and not for us:

“What do you mean it’s for the dogs?!!”

Since then, I have formulated the Banana Flour Porridge as follows:

1/2 cup of banana flour

1 quart (900mls) of water

1 can of sweetcorn (optional)

1 tbsp sugar

Pinch of salt

Place ingredients in a pot and stir on medium flame ( about 7 to 10 minutes) until the porridge thickens.  Can be eaten hot or cold.

This serves 2 people.  Yes, 1/2 cup of flour = 8 bananas!  So, each serving is four bananas.  The result: tasty meal and happily non-constipated!

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