Fondant banana with dark chocolate

Name: Fondant banana with dark chocolate
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Portuguese
Ingredients: 4 ripe bananas, skin on; 80 g dark chocolate squares; 1 pinch flaky salt; Cinnamon (optional); Crushed biscuit to sprinkle (optional)

The campfire dessert, grown-up edition: banana roasted in its own skin, stuffed with dark chocolate that melts inside. Spoon mandatory.

⏱ Prep: 5 min 🔥 Cook: 10 min 👥 Serves: 4 Indirect heat Difficulty: Fácil

Method

Slit each banana lengthwise without separating the halves — skin stays on.
Tuck the chocolate squares into the slit.
No wrapping needed: onto the indirect zone, 8–10 minutes.
Ready when the skin darkens and the chocolate peeks out, melted.
Pinch of salt on top and dive in with a spoon.

🌡 Fire & temperature
Indirect heat · the skin is the baking tin: dark outside, fondant inside.
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EKOOLOGY briquettes — dinner's leftover embers are more than enough.
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💡 Kool tip: Salt on the chocolate isn't a whim: it's what makes the second spoonful inevitable.

🍷 Serve it with: Kids make their own; grown-ups add a drop of rum. Everybody wins.

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