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Thai Fried Bananas

A fried banana dish flavored with palm sugar, butter, and lime juice.

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Why it works: Banana and lime work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 167 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Thai Fried Bananas

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel bananas; slice lengthwise, then in half.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry in butter until soft and golden.

  2. Add sugar and stir until syrup thickens.

  3. Sprinkle with lime juice and serve.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

267Calories
2 gProtein
12 gFat
43 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Banana + limetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together167 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Banana + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  3. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Banana + sugartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,102 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Sugar + limetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,332 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Bananas
Firm fruit holds its shape in the pan, then softens and turns sweet as it cooks.
Palm sugar
Melts and caramelises into a thick, sweet syrup that coats the bananas.
Butter
Adds fat that carries heat evenly and promotes golden browning on the fruit.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the syrup and balances the dish.

The step that matters

Add sugar and stir until syrup thickens. Sugar can go from melted to burnt within seconds. Keep the bananas moving and take the pan off the heat as soon as the syrup thickens, so it becomes glossy rather than bitter.

Swap the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (banana, sugar, butter):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against banana, sugar, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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