Pan Fried Honey Bananas (2024)

These easy Pan Fried Bananas are caramelized in honey and cinnamon for a simple and delicious treat. You can enjoy them as is or pair with ice cream, yogurt, crepes, pancakes, french toast, and more. It only takes 10 minutes to make, with 5 ingredients!

While I’ve never been a big fan of eating bananas plain from the peel, caramelized bananas…bananas foster…oh, and those deep fried banana egg roll desserts…they all make me weak in the knees. These pan fried honey bananas were a snack I ate all the time as a kid, and I still love them today because they’re really easy, take less than 10 minutes to make, and only involve five ingredients.

You can eat the bananas on their own, you can pair them with french toast like in this bananas foster french toast, you can add them to oatmeal, overnight oats, pancakes, ice cream, a peanut butter sandwich, and more.

In my family, these are a favorite for my kids, and I love that they’re relatively healthy as a dessert. We’ve got our favorite desserts like Peanut Butter Cookies and Brown Butter Blondies, but for us those are treats only to be enjoyed on special occasions. However, you may certainly pair these bananas with vanilla ice cream for a special treat.

You only need five ingredients to make this: bananas, coconut oil or butter, cinnamon, salt, and honey:

Step by Step Overview:

Start by slicing up some ripe bananas, about 1/2″ thick:

You want bananas that are ripe, but still firm. There should be no black spots or bruising on the peel, but no green spots either.

Then add some honey, butter or coconut oil, cinnamon, and salt to a nonstick skillet:

My two favorite fats to use are coconut oil or butter, because they definitely have the best flavor. But you can really use any kind of oil you prefer here.

Melt everything together until the honey mixture is bubbling.

Add all of the banana slices to the pan:

Cook for a few minutes until the bananas become deeply caramelized and sticky, like this:

Flip all the banana slices over and cook for another couple minutes on the other side.

These quickStovetop Candied Pecansare very similar to this recipe, and also take about 10 minutes to make. It’s one of the most popular recipes on my site that you may enjoy as well. For more banana recipes, try Bananas Foster French Toast, Caramelized Banana Dutch Baby, or classic Banana Bread.

Here’s a full step-by-step video for how to make this recipe:

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