No need to make banana bread after your bananas go over ripe! Today, I show you how to freeze bananas!
We have all been there. Staring at a bunch of brown bananas thinking, ughhhh I just don't want to make banana bread.
Not only am I not making banana bread all the time, I am buying extra bananas to get them to go a bit over ripe specifically to freeze!
There are lots of ways to use frozen bananas and I am loving them all.
Freezing bananas is really quite simple. Let me show you how to freeze bananas and give you some ideas of what to do with them!
STEP 1 | let bananas go over ripe.
Over ripe bananas are sweeter and in my opinion so much better for recipes.
STEP 2| peel the bananas
I have had some recent conversations n the proper way to peel a banana and apparently my method is strange.
Who knew? I pinch the bottom and pull. PS. this is how monkeys do it! Evolution for the win.
STEP 3| slice bananas into chunks
The size of banana chunks isn't super critical. I have a Vitamix blender so it can handle big chunks, if you have a less powerful blender, and plan on using the frozen banana in smoothies, you may want to make your chunks smaller.
STEP 4| place on a parchment lined cookie sheet
To easily remove the frozen bananas from the sheet pan, you are going to want to line it with parchment.
I have been using this brand of reusable parchment paper and love it! It is what you see here in the photos.
STEP 5| freeze for a minimum of 2 hours & transfer to space saving container
Using this method, the bananas wont all freeze in a big blob. Will they be perfectly un stuck. Not completely, no.
Honestly, I just drop it on the floor and a few chucks easily come loose.
I then store in a freezer safe container.
Now that you have frozen bananas, now what?
I use frozen bananas in almost all of my smoothies! The frozen banana adds a creamy texture that I now can't live without!
Here are my top 4 smoothies that I use my bananas for, and you should too!
Best Smoothies for Frozen Bananas
Anonymous says
How long do the bananas last?
Steph says
It depends on how much air you get out. Less air = less freezer burn = lasts longer. I keep them up to 6 months.