Recipe - Green Banana Salad (Caribbean)

4 md Bananas, green (unripe),
peeled
2 cup Water
1 pn Salt, or more, optional
Lemon juice, spray
1 small Cucumber, with peel, thinly
cut or sliced up (1/8")
1 md Ripe tomato, chopped,
reserve the juice for salad
dressing
1 lg Celery stalk, halve
lengthwise and thinly
cut or sliced up
2 md Carrots, finely shredded
1 Avocado, peel pit cube
Lemon juice, sprayed on
avocado

DRESSING
8 tablespoon Fatfree Southwestern Salad
Dressing, (see link)
thinned with reserved
tomato juice
Honeyroasted sunflower
seeds, optional garnish
8 Whole wheat dinner rolls,
warmed

For the dressing: add fatfree dressing to the reserved tomato juice to
make onetablespoon per serving.

Heat water in skillet; sprinkle in a little salt; reduce heat and add the
bananas; simmer about 2 minutes per side. Drain and cool (with cold tap
water on gentle spray). Spray with a little fresh lemon juice and set aside
to airdray. While drying, chop and slice. Assemble the salad. Add up to
One half cup of thinned dressing. Cut bananas into 1/2inch slices and
incorporate into salad. Then add the finely shredded carrot and toss. Chill
for 1 to 3 hrs and serve with seeds or wheatgerm and/or a whole wheat
dinner roll with added grains and seeds.

*TIP: Instead of frying the bananas or plantains, this recipe boils them.
If boiled too long or vigorously, the bananas brown and distintegrate. It
happens fast. *PANTRY: Plaintains may be used. We use a (nearly) fatfree
Southwest style (tomato and red bell pepper) vinaigrettes bottled by
Brianna. *LINK: FatFree Italian Salad dressing. *VARIATION: Asian soy
ginger salad dressing thinned with with selzer or ginger ale or fresh
orange juice. * Heat it up with a drop of hot sauce or a little minced
fresh jalapeno.

Edited for MasterCook software by phannema@wizard.ucr.edu and sent to
Eatlf mailing list on 4/23/97. MC estimates 160 cals, 4.5 g fat; 23.4%.

Recipe by: Betty Crocker's International Cookbook (1980) Posted to Digest
eatlf.v097.n108 by PATh phannema@wizard.ucr.edu on Apr 23, 1997