25 Delicious Recipes for Brown Bananas

I buy bananas with good intentions. They sit on the counter waiting to be grabbed for a quick snack. Sometimes they are eaten up quickly. Most often, however, they sit there till they start to turn brown and gross.

I hate to waste food so I’ll throw them in the freezer to use in recipes. When they turn brown like this, I can’t bring myself to eat one as is, but I don’t mind using them up in a recipe. In fact, some recipes require the bananas to be overripe! They have many, many uses.
Delicious Recipes for Brown Bananas - Don't throw them away! Brown bananas are sweet and delicious. Try one of these easy recipes with your overripe bananas.

My mom always made banana bread with them. I remember having an after school snack of banana bread warm out of the oven and topping it with butter. The butter would melt and flavour the bread even more. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

Classic banana bread is one use for your brown bananas, but I’ve discovered a bunch of other yummy ways you can use them. Don’t let those bananas go to waste!

As you can see, there are plenty of ways to use brown bananas in addition to banana bread! This is a great list to inspire you to enjoy those bananas at the bottom of your freezer.

Whatever you do, DO NOT throw them away. Put them in the freezer until you are ready to use them.

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    Delicious Recipes for Brown Bananas - Don't throw them away! Brown bananas are sweet and delicious. Try one of these easy recipes with your overripe bananas.

    25 Delicious Recipes for Brown Bananas - Who knew bananas could be so versatile? The browner the banana, the sweeter they get!

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    Delicious Recipes for Brown Bananas - Don't throw them away! Brown bananas are sweet and delicious. Try one of these easy recipes with your overripe bananas.

    What is your favourite way to use brown bananas?

    Delicious Recipes for Brown Bananas

    Don't throw them away! Brown bananas are sweet and delicious. Try one of these easy recipes with your overripe bananas.



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    50 Comments

    1. Patrícia Xará says:

      I need to bookmark this. I only like bananas when they’re hard. When they’re ripe get I don’t know what to do with them.

    2. That’s a lot of good recipes to keep in mind. Good use for older bananas

    3. Barbara Jones says:

      Love all the options but you missed one from long, long ago.
      BANANA PINEAPPLE JAM – so good my sister’s boys used to auction them off at school 45 years ago.

      Pick a pectin, pick a jam that sounds similar. Ingredients: One can of crushed pineapple, mashed ripe bananas to equal the amount of fruit called for by the pectin. Proceed according to the instructions. Simple but so yummy.

    4. Barry Potter says:

      I like fried bananas. After cooking bacon, leave the grease in the pan. Then, peel and slice the banana lengthwise. Cut the slices in half to make turning easier. Fry in the hot grease until starting to get a crisp coating and then turn over. You could sprinkle with powered sugar but I like them just as is. These are great with breakfast.

    5. The Banana Bread Pancakes Looks delicious, will make those when my husband wakes up 😉

    6. Priscilla S. says:

      This is such a great list of recipes! Whenever I have overripe bananas, I almost always just make my favorite banana nut bread. Although I love it, it’s great to see so many new options.!

    7. Debbie Bashford says:

      so many great recipes!

    8. your no fail banana bread sounds/looks great, and is always needed, seems like s soon as we turn around our bananas are brown, and I hate wasted food! Any idea the calorie count for this recipe?

    9. This will be the first time I tell my family NOT to eat the bananas… not very often I am purposely trying to make my fruit over ripe.  LOL  Thank you!

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