Sweet Treats...

Banana Halwa, Organic Peanut Butter with Orange-
Choclate coating... came to the  rescue  for a quick sweet treat craving when the light was fading &  energy levels were low...

Ingredients

3 ripe/over-ripe bananas/ 2 Cups sliced bananas

3 tsp clarified butter/ghee

3 heaping tsps sugar

2 small pods green cardamoms

1/2 tsp grated orange zest

1/4 cup semi-sweet choclate chips for coating

3 tsps organic peanut butter/any smooth peanut butter paste

Method

Heat the Ghee/Clarified butter  on medium heat and add the bananas to  it,

 Let cook for about 5- 8 minutes

Then stay near the dish and keep stirring every now and then, or it will start burning,

Add 3 heaping teaspoons of sugar to the mix and keeping stirring every now and then,

Add the powdered cardamoms to the mix.

The mixture will start to come together in a ball at this point.

Keep turning and stirring the mass until a light choclate brown color.

If you prefer a more carmalized texture, turn the heat a little bit more higher and cook for a few more minutes, without leaving the mixture alone/stirring constantly.

Let cool.

Peanut Butter Paste: heat a pan until it is warm and reasonably touchable! :-)

Take it off the stove and warm the peanut butter paste to make it malleable

Spread it out to  a thin layer if you are not a great fan of peanut butter!

Chill in the refrigerator on a  plastic plate or foil/clingwrap backing for about 5 minutes

Take it out and wrap it around a tiny nugget of the halwa

Orange-Choclate: Start a double boiler and melt the choclate chips and stir in  1/2 tsp of grated zest.

Take a small spoon and decorate the Halwa nuggets.

One can decorate it with slivers of almonds  too. I have cut the sugar level in this dish. One can increase the sugar in the halwa and use bitter-sweet choclate chips for the coating. Not a great fan of peanut-butter hence kept the salty layer thin. The flavour progression was: orange-choclate, slightly salty peanut butter and carmalized banana with the finish of orange zest!