Air Fryer Bananas

Ripe bananas sliced, optionally dusted with cinnamon, and cooked in an air fryer until the outsides colour and the insides go soft. It is a modern appliance recipe with no country attached and none implied, and it sits in Worldwide Recipes with its URL unchanged. It is a good use for bananas that have gone too soft to eat, which is the honest appeal of it. Air frying uses very little oil and the sugars in an overripe banana caramelise readily, so the result colours quickly without any added fat at all. Africa's fried banana and plantain traditions are quite different, and worth naming since the confusion is easy. Plantain is not banana: it is starchier, larger and cooked rather than eaten raw, and fried ripe plantain appears across the continent as dodo in Nigeria, alloco in Côte d'Ivoire and kelewele in Ghana, where it is spiced first. Rwandan banana beignets and Cameroonian banana fritters use actual bananas but in a batter. None of them is this, which is a plain appliance treatment of sliced fruit.