This easy 4-ingredient Banana Syrup recipe is made from banana peels. It’s a great syrup for pancakes with delicious banana flavors that also reduces food waste.
Banana syrup is a simple syrup with a delicious banana flavor. Like all simple syrup, it’s mainly made of sugar and water, then flavored with ripe bananas. While classic banana syrup uses banana flavors or banana flesh, this recipe reuses banana peels that you would have otherwise thrown.
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Banana Syrup
Ingredients
- 4 Banana Peel - from ripe bananas or 2 ripe bananas
- 3 cup Cold Water
- 2- 2 ½ cup Unrefined Cane Sugar - or coconut sugar
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla Extract - split in half
Instructions
- Before you start, rinse the banana peels under cold water to remove any dust.
- Place the banana peels in a large saucepan and cover with 3 cups of cold water.
- Cover and bring to a light-medium boil for 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat and cool down, lid on for 3 hours or overnight to let the banana peel infuse the water.
- After that time, remove the banana peels. You can discard, eat or compost them.
- Measure the amount of liquid left in the pan and keep it in the pan. Add the same amount of sugar in cups, so if you have 2 ½ cups of liquid left, add 2 ½ cups of sugar to the saucepan.
- Return the saucepan to medium heat until the syrup boils. Keep on a light boil for 8 minutes until it thickens, and the liquid reduces in half.
- Remove from heat, stir in vanilla extract and cool down
Storage
- Transfer to sterilized glass jars and store them for up to 3 weeks in the fridge or pantry.
Serving
- Serve on top of bread slices, pancakes, crepes or waffles, and ice cream to add banana flavors to desserts.
Equipment
Nutrition
Ingredients and Substitutions
Banana simple syrup is usually made from ripe bananas but this recipe reuse banana peels instead to make a delicious syrup with the added benefits of banana peels.
- Banana Peels – from ripe bananas for best flavors. It means peels with black dark spots on their skin. The riper the banana, the sweeter the banana syrup recipe will be.
- Pure Cane Sugar – or I also used unrefined cane sugar or coconut sugar for an earthy caramel flavor.
- Vanilla Extract – for flavor.
Why Making Recipes With Banana Peels?
Banana peels have a higher nutrition profile than bananas themselves. Whiles bananas have a lot of potassium, banana peels contain even more. Plus, they are high in vitamins B6 and vitamin B12, important vitamins on a vegan diet that most vegans buy as a supplement.
So to avoid requiring B12 supplements, use the banana peel to make banana recipes. You can use banana peels in smoothies, to make this banana simple syrup, or to make savory recipes like banana peel bacon.
How To Use
This syrup can be used in any plant-based recipes calling for maple syrup or as a topping to your:
- Vegan Pancakes
- Slices of bread with extra banana slices
- Fresh fruit or breakfast fruit salad
- Vegan Waffles
- Ice cream
- Vegan Crepes
You can also use the banana syrup as a vegan honey alternative. It has a similar thick texture with a darker brown color.
More Banana Recipes
Below I listed some more easy banana recipes for you to try:
Can this be canned for long term storage?
It store well in the fridge for a week, in a sealed glass mason jar. I am pretty sure you can preserve this syrup, using a canning method too.
Great recipe. I used it to coat toasted walnuts on top of a banana cake and I also used in place of honey in a batch of peanut butter and honey cookies.
Much cheaper than honey and adds something special.
1/2 what for the vanilla extract?
Teaspoon, sorry for that, the recipe has been updated. Enjoy!
Made this today, LOVE! In regards to storage, I know it says to do sterile mason jars, if I just put it in an old syrup bottle with a pump in it will it sit on the counter that way?
Yes it should last few days on the counter
I want to try this recipe but I have a question first. The recipe calls for vanilla extract but no where in the instructions does it mention what to do with it. I want to assume it’s added in after cooking while the syrup cools?
Yes that’s it, you add the vanilla extract after cooking, I updated the recipe. Enjoy.