Baby bananas
Ecuadro
These baby bananas come from the Caluma region of Ecuador. The bananas are only about 10 centimetres long and taste sweeter than their larger relatives. Three farming families grow the fruits in a polyculture together with other varieties and citrus fruits. The families cultivate close to nature and pesticide-free, but they are not yet certified organic. The fruit arrives at your home green, and you ripen it at home.
- Use green bananas in savoury dishes: Peanut and Banana Curry, Green Banana and Black Bean Stew.
- Use ripe bananas to make delicious smoothies and if you still have some left over, you can freeze them or bake a classic banana bread.
Stored in a cool place, such as a cellar, undamaged fruit will keep for several weeks. Do not remove the plastic in the crate, as it keeps the bananas moist, which stops the ripening process. Dried out bananas will not turn yellow. Store the bananas that you would like to eat within the next few days at room temperature in a paper bag together with an apple. They should be ripe after two to five days. You can delay the ripening process by about two weeks by storing the bananas in an airtight ziplock bag. Check your bananas for skin damage when you receive them, since damaged fruit produces more of the ripening gas ethylene than undamaged fruit.