Banana and Raspberry Muffins

Makes: 12
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Ccooking time:  20 minutes
640kj & 1.2grams of fat per serve

2 cups self-rasing flour

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 cup light banana yogurt

1/2 Skim milk

2 ripe bananas, peled and mashed

1/2 a punnet or 100grams of raspberries

Pre-heat oven to 180c. Lightly grease muffin tin.  Combine flour & Sugar in a bowl.  Mix the egg , yogurt & milk together, add the flour mix (keep some lumps in the mix) Stir through the bananas & raspberries.  Spoon into the muffin tind 3/4 full and bake for 20-25 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.  Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.

Chocolate Banana Smoothie

1.5 cups of milk

3-4 tbsp chocolate syrup or cocoa (to taste)

2 choped bananas (which have been peeled and frozen)

1/2 tsp cinnamon

Place all ingredence into a blender, blend and serve.

Banana & Celery Salad with Crushed Pistachios

Serves: 6-8
1095kj &13grams of fat per serve
- for lower fat recipe, nuts are optional

5 bananas, thinly sliced

3 sticks celery, thinly sliced

1 large green capsicum, thinly sliced

1/2 spanish onion, thinly sliced

150g shelled pistachios

Dressing

1tablespoon lemon juice

1/4 cup light mayonnaise

Combine dressing ingredience and set aside. In a large mixing bowl combine sliced banana, celery capsicum and spansih onion.

To Serve: Spoon dressing over salad and sprinkle with chopped pistachios and season with salt and pepper.

Banana Sticks

1/2 cup shredded coconut

300g milk chocolate

2 1/2 cups Coco-Pops

12 pedestal popsicle sticks

6 bananas, peeled and cut in half

Pre-heat oven to 180'C. Place the cocount onto a baking tray on the top self of the oven and allow cocount to turn golden brown, remove from oven and cool. Place the chocolate into a medium bowl and place in microwave for 1 minute, stir well and return to the micowave another minute.  Mix the Coco-Pops and the cocount together and put onto a plate.  Push the popsicle sticks into the base of the bananas and quickly dip in the warm chocolate roll the banana in the Coco-Pops and the cocount and place onto a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper.  Refrigerate until required allowed to stand 5 minutes before serving.

Tips:

Serve with ice cream as a special Banana Sundae.