We have bananas in the garden again. One banana tree gave us fruit in January, as reported here and here. A second tree is now holding green bananas and a banana flower. This is how they looked on Wednesday.
These bananas look smaller than January’s crop.
For the first time in my life, I have paid attention to the banana flower.
Banana flowers are edible – here are some on sale in Bangalore’s Hypercity supermarket.
Distant Drumlin 
I didn’t know you could eat banana flowers! Do you have to cook them?
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Yes I’ve read some complicated recipes for dismantling and chopping and cooking them. If I do try, I will blog the results!
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Oh boy, if you could be bothered, you’d be a total hero 🙂
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Stunning photos!
So, did you ever master a bana flower recipe? We have bananas here in Sicily too, but they don’t ripen fully unless you wrap them up in a kind of winter anorak made from black bin liners and fleece. My husband did it once and cannot be bothered to do it again!
So, eating the flowers weems like a satiusfying way to make use of them…
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