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A fruit for all seasons is the banana. One of my contacts, Carms, requested that I do an R&D on a banana dessert she has tried. Well---I found the chance to do it yesterday being a Sunday. So, I am sharing it with all readers, esp. Carms. I was in a cooking binge yesterday: I cooked Sinigang na Bangus, Lumpiyang Prito and Shrimp Rebosado...and this as dessert.
No special occasion---just for dinner and for my "lunch" at work.
Ingredients:
5-6 bananas (the long ones) or 5-10 if they are small.
2 cups Sugar (mix white and brown but less of brown)
3 cups of coconut juice w/ a tiny drop of pandan flavor, or pandan leaves, if available.
Batter: (mix the following in a bowl and must be of thick but smooth consistency - Must be free from lumps
1 cup rice flour (galapong)
1 cup wheat flour
1 egg
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup water
1 tsp lye water (lihiya)
1 cup coconut milk
dash of salt
Oil for frying
Directions:
-In a small pan, prepare the syrup by boiling the coconut juice and the sugar together. As soon as it begins to thread, remove from fire, and set aside.
Peel and cut the bananas into 1 inch size.
In a semi-deep frying pan, heat oil (must be very hot)
Coat each banana piece with the prepared batter and deep fry until slightly brownish.
Pour the syrup on the banana balls upon serving.
SALAMAT...be doing this later for merienda ...hey you all try this out!!! This is an original recipe.
ReplyDeleteBatter with coconut juice, and coconut syrup, who can resist this recipe...Even though I have diabetes I am going to try this. I will have a taste and give the rest to Danny and then maybe the second time I will make this, I'm going to try using splenda. I wonder if I can do this without the brown sugar if I'm going to do it w/ splenda. I don't know what is lihiya (lye water), also what did you use for a pandan flavor?
ReplyDeleteAngie,
ReplyDeleteLihiya makes the batter a little "malakit" and this is also what I use for suman sa lihiya (remember this kind?)--For pandan flavor, you can add some "frozen" panda leaves, or buy a bottle of pandan flavor...pero kaunting patak lang, cause if its too much lihiya and pandan flavor---it sometimes make the batter a little bitter.
Hope this helps!
I think Splenda will work---which means you have to calculate how much cause splenda is sweeter...and adjust the amount of water!
ReplyDeleteno, hehehe...
ReplyDeletethanks, all I can do now is to try..;-)
ReplyDeletesweet banana balls.. sarap..
ReplyDeletei also like fish balls..
Si Arvin, nangangarap na naman ng pagkaing Pinoy, o!
ReplyDeleteDi bale, kapag nagbakasyon na kayo dito, you can get all the fish balls you like! Wag lang bibili sa marumi, ha! Libre ang hepa dun, kaya ingat dapat, hehehe!
Arvin, Do you liket to make fishballs ala bangketa? I can give you a recipe for that! Sarap din! Sauce mo: sweet and sour or matamis lang.
ReplyDeleteIdagdag mo din ang maanghang. Mas madali ito--- yung sweet sauce, huhulugan lang ng red sili na galing Bicol! Yung fiery talaga at masarap!
ReplyDeletei used to remember lita after school in bicol that i used to eat fishballs everyday.
ReplyDeletenagpapaluto pa ako ng bago..
after my freshman yr in highschool we moved to the states..
I see...well, our local fishballs are really very tasty. Over the years, the ambulant vendors have gone "sosy" as we term in - meaning sosyal---they are now using stainless steel carts, with colorful big umbrellas-and have a variety of foods na nakatuhog-tuhog--- Now, Anne tells me that all the more---the vendors have gone further in offering different goodies. Does that mean you haven't gone home since the time you moved here? If so, Manila has changed a lot--and I suppose even Bicol!
ReplyDeletei havent been home for 21 yrs.. im 35 now.. i was 14 when we left..last april sana but things happened..maybe nxt year or the year after..
ReplyDeletemeron na daw ngayon squid balls also.. hindi lang fish balls.
Let's see...
ReplyDeleteThere is Fishballs
Squidballs
Shrimpballs
Chickenballs
Kikiam
Kwek-Kwek (pugo egg with orange flour coating)
and some others na may ibang hinalo lang, but of the same make, as in spicy squidballs, etc....
KISS King of Balls is one "clean" cart na nagbebenta nga halos lahat ng binanggit ko sa itaas... And I guess, sila ang kilala na nag-labas ng clean and sanitized version ng mga "balls" dito sa Pinas...They sell Sago't Gulaman din with these stick foodies, and masarap din siya! Kasama namin ito sa Ateneo, and they are doing so well inside too, at gusto ng estudyante... Gina is one who likes 'em so much!
Well, Arvin, when you do get the chance to visit home---it sure will be one swell homecoming---what with all the balls that Anne enumerated, you will have to try out---plus there is really nothing so good than our own Filipino cuisine!
ReplyDeleteI am sure even the "smell" of the Philipines---di mo na kilala!
Naku, Anne, I, myself, haven't tried most of those you listed here---kwek-kwek---what a name!
ReplyDeleteFavorite ni Migs yan, but si Yani ang gumagawa dito at home---kasi nakakatakot sa labas bumili. It's pugo eggs dipped in an orange-colored flour batter, then deep fried. Ang sauce nito, sweet and sour, or simpleng asin na pino. The batter is orange dahil may atsuete coloring... Masarap coz crispy siya...Pati si Gina gusto din yan... The coating is very similar to that of Camaron Rebosado, pero orangey ang kulay...
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