Serve a portion of porridge with extra butter, a caramelised banana slice and a few rashers of streaky bacon.
Sweet Vanilla Porridge with Streaky Bacon & Caramelised Bananas
Ingredients
- 200g Eskort Rindless Streaky Bacon
- 500ml (2 cups) maize meal
- 5L (6 cups) water
- 5ml (1 tsp) salt
- 5ml (1 tsp) vanilla essence
- 15ml (1 tbsp) butter
- 250ml (1 cup) castor sugar
- 3 bananas
- Allergens
- This recipe contains dairy (lactose).
- Substitutions
- Butter (lactose): Use ghee (clarified butter).
Method
- Streaky Bacon
- Preheat the oven to 190°C.
- Place the streaky bacon on a greased baking tray and bake for 15 minutes until crispy.
- Vanilla Porridge
- Bring water to the boil and add salt, vanilla essence and butter.
- Whisk the maize meal into the water, then lower the temperature and cook for 5
- In a small bowl, mash 1 banana and whisk it into the maize porrid
- Add half the castor sugar and mix well. Remove from the heat.
- Caramelised Bananas
- Add the rest of the castor sugar to a pan set over high heat.
- Slice the 2 remaining bananas in half lengthwise.
- Place the bananas in the castor sugar cut-side down and allow to caramelis