Pisang Goreng

pisang goreng

Pisang Goreng - Banana Fritter

Serves: 4-6 people
Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

1 cup self-raising flour
1 cup chilled water
¼ tsp salt
6 well ripe ladyfinger bananas
400ml vegetable oil
50g grated coconuts (optional)

For caramelised palm sugar syrup:

100g dark palm sugar (or mix of 50g palm sugar + 50g brown sugar)
100ml of water
½ tsp vanilla essence

Cooking Method:

  1. In a large bowl make a thick batter by mixing the flour, chilled water and salt
  2. Peel bananas, split each banana into two long thinner banana slices, or cut into two again for smaller size
  3. Heat oil in a small pan for shallow frying, once oil is hot, turn stove to medium
  4. Dip each banana into the mixture
    5. Fry in hot oil until each side brown, only turn over once.
  5. Leave cooked banana fritters to cool down on paper towel.
  6. Repeat the frying process until all done.

For the caramelised sauce:

  1. In a little pot add water, palm sugar and vanilla essence.
  2. Upon bringing to boil, turn the stove down to low until all palm sugar is melted after which turn the stove off.
  3. If you like your sugar syrup to be thicker then before turning your stove off add in ½ tsp of arrow root or tapioca flour (mixed with with cold water in a cup) and pour it into the palm sugar syrup. Mix thoroughly for 1 minute and turn the stove off.

Serve banana fritters with grated coconut and drizzle with caramelized palm sugar syrup, add vanilla ice cream for each serving if required.

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