Banana Golden Syrup Dumplings Food

BANANA GOLDEN SYRUP DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Place the flour in a medium-sized bowl, add the butter and using your fingers, rub the butter into the flour until coarse crumbs form.
• In a separate small bowl combine the egg, buttermilk and vanilla, and whisk to combine. Pour the egg mixture into the butter and flour and combine with a spatula to form a dough.
• To make the golden syrup, melt the butter in a 10-inch skillet. Once melted, add the sugar, syrup and water, and bring to a boil.
• Scoop the dumpling batter with a tablespoon sized ice cream scoop, if you have one, and place in the boiling syrup. Reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes, periodically spooning the sauce over the dumplings that are not covered in it, until the dumplings are puffy and a toothpick inserted into one of the dumplings comes out clean.
• Serve, still warm, straight from the pan, with vanilla ice cream.

GOLDEN SYRUP DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a large, wide pan pour in 450ml water, half the butter, sugar and golden syrup and bring to the boil. Turn it down immediately so it is just simmering.
• Warm the milk just a little. Meanwhile, in a food processor pulse the flour and the rest of the butter until it resembles breadcrumbs. Add 2 tbsp golden syrup and the warmed milk and whizz until it comes together.
• Bring the liquid back to the boil and drop in dessertspoon-size pieces of the dough, turn the heat down to a simmer again and gently cook for 10 mins, turning gently a few times. You may need to do it in two batches so they don't all stick together - just scoop out the first lot with a little of the syrup into a baking dish, cover with foil and keep warm in a low oven while you finish the rest.

BAKED GOLDEN SYRUP DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Sift flour and salt, beat egg, add milk.
• Rub butter into flour, add liquid and mix into a soft dough.
• Place ingredients for syrup into a saucepan, stir until sugar is dissolved and bring to the boil.
• Place tablespoons of dough into pie dish.
• Pour syrup over dumplings and bake in oven for 25 minutes at 375F degrees.
• Serve with custard, cream, or icecream (or all of these!).

BANANA DUMPLINGS WITH TOFFEE SAUCE

Steps:

• Sift flour, baking powder and cinnamon into a bowl.
• Rub in butter.
• Stir in sugar, banana, and enough milk to form a sticky dough.
• To make the sauce, combine all the sauce ingredients in a saucepan.
• Stir over a low heat, without boiling until the sugar has dissolved.
• When it has dissolved bring to the boil, without stirring and then reduce the heat to a simmer.
• Drop tablespoons of dough mixture into the simmering sauce and simmer them, covered, for 15 minutes or until they are cooked.
• Serve the dumpling with the toffee sauce.

GOLDEN SYRUP DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Sift the flour into a bowl and add a pinch of salt.
• Using your fingertips, rub the butter into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
• Make a well in the center and using a flat bladed knife, stir in the combined egg and milk to form a soft dough.
• To make syrup, place the water in a large pan with the sugar, second amount of butter, golden syurp and lemon juice, stirring over medium heat until combined and the sugar has dissolved.
• Brint to a boil, then gently drop dessertspoons of the dough into the syrup.
• Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook, covered, for 20 minutes, or until a knife inserted into a dumpling comes out clean.
• Spoon onto serving plates, drizzle with syrup and serve immediately to 4 very lucky people with a dollop of whipped cream on top.