They are delicious! I always knew them as dessert bananas.

Thanks. Will try them.

I wish these were available all year round. The regular cavendish bananas at the grocery stores pale compared to these.

Apple bananas (Manzano) are also pretty good and seems to have a longer shelf life.

The red bananas at Sprouts are also great when eaten ripe. But they're a hit or miss sometimes. I've gotten them a few times where I waited over a week and they never ripened. Had to throw them away.

Plantains also are amazingly good when black. Love bananas foster made with plantains.

I love fried plantains

Another good one is Saba. They're short and fat, usually find them next to plantains at the asian grocery stores. Wait until they're over ripe and coat them in sugar, wrap them in eggroll wrapper, roll it again in sugar and then deep fry them. You can even add a slice of jackfruit with the banana before wrapping it. MMMmmm sooo good. One of my favorite dessert/snacks. We call it 'Turon' in the Philippines.

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Stop! You people are making me hungry.

Ramaiken, I've been trying to find the right banana to make those. Thanks. I'm hungry too.

Awesome pics and discuss Raimeiken and all. I love bananas and plantains of all types. I love that recipe. I'm going to give it a try. SOON, very soon. As in maybe this morning, hah. Happy gardening and happy eating!

I bought just about every banana type at lee lees:
Burro
Manzano
Plantain
Regular

Couldn't find Saba to make the banana eggrolls.

Any suggestions for recipes with burro or manzanita varieties?

Any

burro is the same as saba. so yes, you have the right bananas for that recipe :)

Hooray! Do I wait until they are black first?

For a plantain I've waited a month before it was finally black. Didn't need to cook it at that point. It was fine on its own.

not totally black. If they're soft and mostly black they're good to go

thanks for the offer, but I actually just bought a huge Dwarf Namwah corm from somebody on bananas.org forum.

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I have read that a lot of the "Ice cream banana" plants sold here in the US are actually Namwahs. It's hard to find the real Ice cream bananas unless you contact some other fellow banana enthusiast in that forum I posted.