FRIED BANANAS – Known as PISANG GORNG, these delicious deep fried bananas should be cooked the last minute, so the outer crust of the batter is crisp in texture and the banana is soft and warm inside. This is an Indonesian dish.. adapted in the US to many other versions.. one most famously called banana foster.. I have stayed with the original recipe only straying a little to make it to my liking.. one thing I did extra was instead of rice flour mixed in with the self rising flour, I used cornstarch mixed in with it instead. Also I rolled mine in a mixture of brown and white sugar with a shake of cinnamon and powdered sugar instead of only white sugar like the recipe called for. I served mine with Butter Pecan Ice Cream a drizzle of maple syrup and some Hershey’s Syrup. TO DIE FOR!!!!!!
Directions
get you a bunch of the small bananas.. they work best.
about 8 or 9 on a bunch
have everything ready this recipe goes FAST.. you have to eat it right away as well,.
clean oil for deep frying.. I use a heavy bottomed old pressure cooker bottom for my deep frying.
1/2 cup self rising flour
2 tbsp rice flour ( I used 2 Tbsp Cornstarch instead)
1/2 tsp salt
scant cup of water (3/4 cup water)
add lime juice or lemon juice to the water Tbsp
mixed till smooth
peel nanners
dip them in the batter two or three times then into the hot oil..
oil should be at lest 190 degrees.. deep fry and carefully turn I had to use a slotted spoon and a case knife to flip mine over.
.when crisp and golden take out and dress in the sugars..
(original recipe said to use limes to squeeze over bananas after fried and granulated sugar for dusting but I chose to make mine much richer with brown sugar and white sugar mixture, a shake of cinnamon, and powdered sugar then I served with Butter Pecan Ice Cream drizzled with maple syrup and Hershey’s Syrup)
serve IMMEDIATELY
COMMENTS FROM TRIED AND TRUE RECIPES ON FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE
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Alexandra Lim great job Serena. FYI, “pisang goreng” is Malay for fried bananas. It must have come from Malaysian Africans (the term I mean)
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Alexandra Lim This is one of our favorite snacks in Malaysia. Usually they will use Pisang Rajah for the fritters as that variety of banana is so sweet, whether eaten fresh or cooked. So sad I can’t find this variety here in US.
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Serena Adkins Ellison I dunno it is in an international cookbook I picked up. This was the info I got from it said the dish originated in Africa… hope it was accurate
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Alexandra Lim Check out this link for the most famous street vendor in my hometown selling Goreng Pisang and other fritters using sweet potato and yam. My family has been patronizing this particular stall since I was a young child. The price of 1 piece of banana fritter used to be 20-30 cents in the old days and now probably gone up to $1.50 or more!http://www.what2seeonline.com/2009/09/penang-goreng-pisang-banana-fritters/
Goreng pisang is a popular snack. I used to patronize the Penang Tanjung BungahGoreng Pisang, located on the left side of the road leading to Batu Feringghi. -
Alexandra Lim Here’s a recipe we normally use for fritters
Ingredient:
Ripe bananas (peeled, cut in half lengthwise) 6 each
Batter Ingredients:
Flour ½ cup
Rice flour ¼ cup
Baking powder 1 tsp
Salt ¼ tsp
Water 1 ½ cup
How to cook:
Place flour, rice flour and baking powder in a deep mixing bowl. Make a well in the middle of the flour, and add salt. Add water little by little. Whisk vigorously until batter is evenly smooth for coating and not too thin. If it is too thin, add more flour.
Dip bananas into batter to coat generously.
Heat up oil in a deep fryer until moderately hot. Place coated bananas in the deep fryer and fry slowly until golden brown and crispy. Remove bananas from oil, drain on paper napkins and dry well.
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Serena Adkins Ellison Wonder why the book had the dish as African?
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Alexandra Lim I think there are Malay community in Africa, those that immigrated there.
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Serena Adkins Ellison Your recipe is almost the same as the books.. It didnt tell me to split them though… I added a tiny bit of a twist of my own to the dish..the family LOVED this dessert
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Alexandra Lim Goreng Pisang is very common in Southeast Asia – Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Thailand and there are slight variations in recipes in the different regions. Some Malay vendors like to slice their bananas in half, others prefer the whole banana.
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Alexandra Lim Guess what I found, this vendor even has a facebook page. Check it outhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Penang-Goreng-Pisang/231449030222712
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Serena Adkins Ellison OKAY Alexandria I you are going to think I am SO STUPID!!!!! LOL!!!!! last night when we were chatting I was upstairs and my international cookbook I had taken this recipe from was downstairs.. well today I went to “double check” myself and Africa was the chapter BEFORE the bananas.. so I did get it wrong.. you were right!!!!! the chapter the bananas came out of said Indonesia So i will be making corrections to this on my page right now.. THANK YOU SO MUCH for helping me to catch that… I should have checked it last night after our chat but I was too lazy to go look phahahahaha.
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Serena Adkins Ellison you did.. I am so GLAD you did.. LOL I hate having the wrong information posted.. I can’t change this post heading without deleting the whole post but I changed it on my website =))
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