Banana Butter

13 small bananas
2 lemons, juice only
150ml water
450g sugar

Slice the bananas, place into a large saucepan with the lemon juice and water. Bring to the boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer until bananas are soft, about 20-30 minutes. Transfer the fruit to a blender and puree until smooth. Pour into a clean saucepan, add the sugar gradually over a low heat until dissolved. Bring to the boil, lower the heat and simmer until thick and reduced by half, about 60 minutes.

Yields 4 jars

The original recipe is to push the cooked bananas through a sieve. I tried this but found it too time consuming as the bananas were too viscous so I blended the remaining banana. On the plus side, all the fibre is intact!