After spending way too many hours testing prompts on Nano Banana Pro through the Nano AI workbench , I noticed a pattern: this model rewards a specific prompt structure that's different from what you'd write for DALL-E 3 or Midjourney.

This isn't a "1000 prompts you can copy" listicle. It's 5 actual recipes I keep coming back to, with the why behind each.

Why Recipes Beat Random Prompting

Most "prompt engineering" advice is just "add more adjectives." That works on bigger models like DALL-E 3 because they have huge prompt-following capacity. Smaller models like Nano Banana Pro reward terseness — long prompts confuse them.

The recipes below all share a structure:

[subject] + [lighting/time] + [medium/style anchor]

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