Man, I love all these blogs welcoming Spring, freaking jealous here because we just got 25 cm snow-dump yesterday. Today still gloomy and tomorrow is another snow showers awaits according the weather news, SUPERB! 👌
What more superb?
Last night I was bawling my eyes out as I watched Superman died. Why TF would they do that. I had forgotten the comic or convo between my husband and I years ago of how the comic killed Superman, so I innocently watched Batman VS Superman on Netflix last night, and successfully cried like a 5 year old girl. It's SUPERman, come on now 😢
Meh, enough of 2 depressing topics, let me share you this awesome Indonesian dessert of grilled bananas from East Borneo, known as pisang gapit.
Whenever I visit Indonesia, my oldest sister would ALWAYS go high and low looking for this dessert for me 😂 - it's an inside joke. Our hometown is hilly, literally so many areas/streets are called gunung, which translates to mountain 😂
This is my version of Pisang Gapit. I cannot really make it as back home due to the bananas available in Canada is only one type of banana 😌. There is plantain, but you know it's not really a banana, and very rarely there's smaller bananas, but those are a big no-no.
The sauce I had here is also rather pale as I was using Thai brand coconut palm sugar. Indonesian brand always gives darker, stronger flavor. But beggars can't be choosers, hey. So good enough 👌👍👌👍
Ingredients
- 4 firm bananas (not unripe green though)
- 1 can of coconut milk
- 400 ml water
- 1/4 c sugar
- 1 block palm sugar
- 1 screwpine leaf, knotted
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- a dash of salt
- vanilla essence, optional
** How To**
- Pour coconut milk into a pot. Add in sugars, salt, screwpine leaf and 200 ml water. Bring to boil and stir sugars to dissolved
- Mix 200 ml water with flour and starch
- Once sugars dissolved, stir in flour mixture. It will thicken a bit. Sometimes I add more flour/starch to get thicker sauce.
- Grill/broil banana, on both sides, then press to flatten. This is why you need firm banana, you don't want mushy banana when flatten.
- Slice banana and serve with the sweet sauce
Alternatively, you can use coconut palm sugar granules or brown sugar, adjust sweetness to your liking. With either of these sugars, you would achieve darker sauce as it should be.
...and oh, here is a picture I took just now, to share you some chilly day 😂 - had to open door to let some fresh air in as I just stir fried chili sauce 😂
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