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Our family favorite for over 50 years! Each year for Thanksgiving and Christmas, one of my sons or I make this family favorite dessert. IF you like bananas and cocktail peanuts, you will like this rich treat. Recipe below, but warning, newcomers to this special dish seem to be happier about tasting it before you tell them what is in it.
Casual directions (amounts are guesstimates according to personal taste)
For a casserole dish quantity, figure on 7 or 8 ripe bananas. Must be ripe and not green at all. 1 tub of Cool Whip and about 2 1/2 cups of mayonnaise. 1 can of salted cocktail peanuts, about 12 oz, chopped. Juice from sweet pickles (about 2 tablespoons) and yellow mustard (about 1 1/2 tablespoons). 1-2 tablespoons of granulated sugar.
1. Chop nuts and reserve.
2. Slice bananas in round slices about 1/4" or slightly thinner.
3. In separate bowl, gently fold these together: Cool Whip, mayo, mustard, sweet pickle juice, sugar. The color will be slightly off-white to pale yellow. The taste will be rich but light in texture. Add more of any ingredients until the flavor is light and sweet but not too tart or sugary.
4. In casserole bowl, do three layers at a time and then repeat until the bowl is full.
a. One layer of the banana slices to fill bowl, laid in flat circles across bowl.
b. One layer of the fluffy sauce to cover bananas.
c. Sprinkle nuts evenly across the layer.
5. End with final topping of nuts as shown in the photo.
Cover bowl and refrigerate for at least 5 hours. This is best about 8 hours later, but my oldest son and I think that the next day is even better. This keeps about 3 days in the refrigerator.
Seriously, I swear this is an awesome dessert, IF you like bananas and peanuts. Bet few people ever heard of this. My mother-in-law created it back in the 50's in rural Illinois. Perhaps there was a recipe she found somewhere long ago, but we have always done it this way in memory of that side of our family. I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has ever heard of this or tried it.
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at 14:58 on July 5th, 2009
My family makes banana salad too. We've never heard of anyone else who's heard of it until now. We're far from Illinois though.... Mississippi.