Bananas in Red Stuff (a.k.a Strawberry Glaze)
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What do you get when you combine a bunch of ripe bananas with strawberry glaze? Bananas in red stuff, a dessert that’s simultaneously light, filling, refreshing, and just the right amount of sweet.
In case you haven’t noticed, there is an awful lot of high fa-lootin’ ness going around in the foodie world today and I try to keep as much distance between myself and anything high fa-lootin’ as possible because that’s just how I like to live. This brings me to today’s recipe. You see, I have achieved my highest culinary dream. I have reached the pinnacle of delicious greatness! I have climbed the highest mountain and crossed the raging seas and I have returned with… bananas in red stuff!
Alright, I know, I could do better on the name. But the thing is, I’ve been calling it that for as long as I can remember, and whenever you ask someone “Hey you know that banana stuff at Shoney’s” they always reply “Oh yeah, you mean bananas in red stuff?”. So today, on Southern Plate, we’re just gonna call it what it is and anyone with eyes can see that it is bananas in red stuff. But if the professionals ask, it’s a bananas with strawberry glaze recipe, okay?
If you are familiar with Shoney’s breakfast bar you know how wonderful this stuff is. It’s the belle of the ball. Light tasting, slightly sweet, filling, and refreshing, I’ve longed (literally, longed) for the recipe for years. Then a few years back Mama and I found ourselves talking about it yet again. We’ve gone over all sorts of possible scenarios from diluted jello to a grenadine-based sauce. The thing is, though, it has to be simple for a restaurant like Shoney’s to turn it out on the scale that they do. It then dawned on us, what is Shoney’s specialty? Strawberry pie. So what would they have on hand at all times? Strawberry glaze!
Oh goodness, folks, we’ve hit pay dirt! Here’s the recipe for bananas with strawberry glaze and I hope you make it soon.
Recipe Ingredients
- Strawberry glaze
- Bananas (you want your bananas to be ripe, but not overly ripe because we want a little firmness left in them).
How to Make Bananas With Strawberry Glaze
Pour your glaze into a mixing bowl.
Using the container the glaze came in, fill it up with cold water and pour that into the mixing bowl as well.
Now mix this on medium speed until completely blended.
It really helps to do this with an electric mixer because it’s just globby and slightly annoying to do it with a spoon.
Now slice your bananas into a medium bowl.
Make the banana slices kinda thick so they will hold up better when you are stirring them up in our next step.
Now pour your strawberry glaze over the sliced banana in your bowl.
And give them a good stir to coat.
Cover with foil or plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for a few hours or until well chilled.
Oh, this is gonna be so good!
Just for you, I dished it all out into pretty little dessert dishes to take a photo and spent a few minutes pretending I wasn’t going to eat it all myself. 🙂
Storage
Leftover bananas in red stuff will only last a couple of days when stored, covered, in the fridge. Any longer and the bananas will begin to turn brown.
Recipe Notes
- Lots of places offer this “red stuff” near the strawberries and there are tons of different brands and such. Now, I’m firmly on team sugar-free glaze. However, I’m here to tell you that the sugar-free glaze tasted nothing like the regular glaze. It wasn’t bad, it was just very different. It was so different that I actually ended up throwing it away and going back to the store for the regular glaze. So I’m gonna recommend you get the regular glaze to make this. You understand, right?
- If you want to make a fruit salad with strawberry glaze, add a quart of fresh strawberries (halved) and 1 can of pineapple chunks (drained) to the banana slices.
Recipe FAQs
How do you serve bananas with strawberry glaze?
Now, I just like to eat it on its own. However, this would also be excellent as a dessert topping. Serve it on top of slices of pound cake, on top of pancakes or , or with a serving of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream – the possibilities are limitless.
You may also like these other Southern banana recipes:
Caramel Banana Pie (a.k.a Easy Banoffee Pie)
How To Make Homemade Banana Pudding From Scratch
Homemade Banana Pudding with Meringue Topping
Banana French Toast with Pecans From Mama’s Kitchen
Grilled Bananas – Best Kept Secret
Ingredients
- 4-6 medium bananas
- 1 10-ounce container strawberry glaze
Instructions
- Place glaze in a medium bowl. Fill the empty glaze container with water and pour that into the bowl as well. Mix with an electric mixer until completely blended.1 10-ounce container strawberry glaze
- Slice bananas in thick slices into a separate bowl. Pour glaze over them and stir to coat.4-6 medium bananas
- Cover and place in the refrigerator for several hours to chill. Serve cold.
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This recipe was featured in Meal Plan Monday and Weekend Potluck
You wanted super easy really yummy meals so gotta tell ya this one. My best friend sent me it after one of those recipe swap emails (just love those). Ya take 4-5 chicken breast(boneless skinless) put em in your crock pot and in a mixing bowl mix a can of cream of chicken a block of cream cheese and a pkg of italian seasoning(ya know the one you use to make your own dressing) pour this over the chicken and cook on low for like 6 hrs. Ya gotta keep it stired cause it will stick. Now I got a crew where most times one of them don’t like what ever you cook but everyone loves it. I make mashed taters and eat it with sauce like gravy but hubby thought maybe pasta would be good. Hugs from texas.
Got an even easier version of this- Cut up about 4 chicken breasts. Add to crock pot with a can of cream of chicken soup, a packet of italian dressing mix, and 1/2 cup white wine (can leave it out or use broth if you really must. I keep tiny bottles of wine on hand for things like this, you can buy them in little 4 packs for cheap). Stir it all up. Cook on low 6-8 hours or so, no need to stir. Then add 3-4 ounces softened cream cheese or a cup of sour cream and stir. Serve over noodles or mashed potatoes or whatever you want. You can add canned mushrooms or olives or whatever too. It’s essentially the same recipe you posted, but you don’t have to stir it while it’s cooking. I use my crock pot if I’m going to be out of the house and not home to stir. Either way you do it, the recipe is really great and one of my husband’s favorites 🙂 I call it Chicken Stroganoff. You can use cut up pork chops instead of the chicken too.
My easiest meal. Frozen chicken breasts, 2 cans of rotel in the crockpot to cook all day. Add some cheese, sour cream and put it in a tortilla for easy tacos that can feed a crowd.
Here is a recipe for homemade glaze that is simple to make.
Homemade Glaze (Red Stuff) for Bananas
1 c. sugar
2 tbsp. cornstarch
Pinch salt
1 3/4 c. cold water
1 tsp. vanilla
1 – 3 ounce box strawberry Jell-O
Mix together sugar, cornstarch, water and salt. Cook until clear, stirring constantly.
Add vanilla and strawberry Jell-O. Cool until it begins to thicken.
When glaze is cooled, add sliced bananas and stir to combine.
This above recipe may be used as a glaze for a strawberry pie. Fresh peaches and orange Jell-O another idea for a pie! Also, raspberries with raspberry Jell-O!
Linda
What a cool idea, thanks! Especially for making a peach pie. They sell peach Jell-o around here 🙂
LOL! I’ve always cut bananas with a butter knife! I guess my mom was looking out for me too. 🙂
Hey Christy,
My Mom used to slice bananas and put into strawberry jello along with english walnuts, and top with whipped cream. This was years ago. Thanks for bringing back summer time memories.
Bill
LoL, I’m an old Lady and i cut my bananas with a butter knife too, never thought about it. !!! And i love that Red Stuff too. I always assumed, (we know where that gets us ) that it was made of jello, not quite set. I’m glad to know how it’s really made , I’ll bet it would be good to mix in all kinds of fruit with it. This would be good after stuffing ourselves with Easter dinner, sweet but nice and light too. Christy, I really enjoy your site, I have so much fun reading how you make the recipes, jogs my memory on many old favorites, always good. I’m like the rest, don’t ever change Christy.
You have Shoney’s there? I haven’t seen one in years, but I remember the bananas in red stuff! I always cut my bananas with a butter knife cause that’s how I was taught too. Odds are if I started using a sharp knife now to cut them I’d end up cutting myself. It’s probably best that I stick with the butter knife!
Simple recipes….I just posted my recipe for real mashed potatoes on my blog. Super simple and super southern. Well, it would’ve been super southern if I’d have made gravy to go on top!
All of us Southern cooks don’t put gravy on mashed potatoes, Chris. I like to put English peas on my potatoes to make a “pea nest” and put the gravy on my biscuits!