Easy Homemade Banana Extract
Easily make your own banana extract adding a punch of flavor to your dishes. Give your dishes a burst of banana goodness in every bite!
Equipment
Ingredients
- dehydrated bananas can use 2 fresh bananas
- 80 proof vodka
Instructions
- Fill your wide mouth jar half way with dehydrated banana slices.
- If you are using fresh bananas, mash them up with a fork until mashed like when making banana bread and put into jar.
- Fill the jar the rest of the way with vodka and place a lid on it.
- Let the jar sit for 3-4 weeks, turning daily, every other day, to keep the bananas coated by the vodka.
- After 3-4 weeks, use a small strainer and strain the bananas from the liquid.
- Discard the bananas and use to make banana bread, ice cream, bananas foster.
- Strain the extract again into the container you want to store and use from. This can be any bottle with a sealed lid.
- Label the bottle and enjoy in your favorite dishes.
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Notes
- If using pieces and not pureed banana, use large mouth jars. This allows you to easily remove the chucks of banana from the liquid.
- Use ripe bananas. Green bananas won't release all the delicious flavor as a ripe fruit would.
- Use vodka to make extract because it is odorless and tasteless and will not add additional flavors into your extract.
- Your extract is highly concentrated, so only use a small amount, like you do when using vanilla extract.