Crispy Fried Bananas Recipe from My Grandma


Old-style recipe is always interesting to try. It also offers many wonderful memories to cherish.

Everyone has their own way of serving food. But watching my grandmother cook is one of my best memories.


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It cannot be denied that we grew up with recipes passed down from generation to generation from our former members. Whether it's from grandmothers, aunts, or directly from our mothers. But for sure, I always keep recipes for traditional foods from my grandmother. To be precise, my late grandmother.

Like the recipe that I present to you. I made this recipe from an adaptation of my late grandmother's recipe. Pretty simple, but some of the tricks my late grandmother was told are very important to remember.

Well, why the recipe from my late grandmother, not my mother? Yeah, because in the past my mom worked overseas and I spent all my time with my grandmother and my older siblings until I was in middle school.


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So, my childhood self really liked the crispy fried bananas made by my late grand mother. And today, I will share it with you here.

So many recipes for similar fried bananas. In my version here, I just rice flour. We have to eat fried bananas immediately when they are warm. The condition of the fried bananas that have cooled will cause the surface of the fried bananas to become hard in texture, and not crispy anymore.


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NOTE: I use a type of banana that has a hard texture even when ripe, and this type of banana is better consumed for processed foods than having to be eaten in raw condition.


THE INGREDIENTS


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  • 10-15 ripe bananas
  • 1 cup of rice flour
  • 1/2 tablespoon of salt
  • 200 ml of water
  • cooking oil to fry bananas

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS


  • STEP 1: Make the batter. Mix the water into the flour by slowly pouring the water into the flour, while stirring. This method is to make sure, we know whether the consistency of the batter can be used as a coating for bananas for frying. If you feel that the batter is not thick enough, you can add more flour.

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  • STEP 2: Peel the bananas, then cut the bananas. Here I am following the recipe from my late grandmother. For each banana, I slice it into layers to make it look like a banana.

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  • STEP 3: Heat the oil. Then fry the bananas that have been dipped in the previous batter. Do it quickly when dipping the bananas in the oil so that they ripen at the same time.

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  • STEP 4: Fry until both sides are golden brown. Here I'm kind of scorching them because I left them for a while. Oops, my bad! So, please keep watching the bananas to avoid them getting burnt.

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SERVED FRIED BANANAS


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Serve the fried bananas while warm so that the texture remains crispy on the outside, but on the inside, it remains soft but not mushy because it uses a type of banana that has a hard and dense texture even though it is in ripe condition. The taste of crispy fried bananas is sweet from the natural flavor of the bananas that have been quite ripe.


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How about the small crispy pieces that I serve on the plate? Well, that's left over from the batter I fried. Many of us Indonesians like to eat small crispy pieces because the sensation while eating will create a "kriuk kriuk" sound when eaten.

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I hope you guys like my recipe this time, which I brought from an adaptation of a recipe taught by my late grandmother. Enjoy your day!




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Anggrek Lestari


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Who is Anggrek Lestari?

Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.


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Hello @anggreklestari, a recipe of great value to you, for your grandmother who taught it to you, grandmothers have the virtue of adding a special touch to the dishes they prepare, the crunchy ones look delicious.

It usually happens to me when I fry plantains in a little carelessness they get burned ha, ha I must be vigilant.

Have a nice day!

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Hehe yeah sometimes our cooking results are not perfect. Have a great day.

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Looks yummi!
These crispies are the left batter sprinkled into the hot oil, did I understand this the right way?
Not sure if it will work with the bananas we get here, but will try :-)
Would it work with corn flour too?

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Yeah you are right. Those are the left batter :)
Corn flour will work too but I think the result will a bit hard on surfaces.

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You made me so greedy for this yesterday ;-) so I made a "simple version"
Just banana and pea sauted in butter, adding honey and cinnamon
Yummi too. But of course not crispy

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I love this kind of snack of banana, we usually made like this when Im still young together with my mom and other siblings. Missing home with your foodie 😊

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I was born and grow up in a village. And I think we have a similar cultures that's why we have the same food :)

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I think we are. I love and relate most of food blogs.

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To be honest, the idea of fried bananas sounds a bit strange. And I'm not sure if I'll ever find a banana that is firm even when ripe. But your recipe looks delicious as always so I want to try it. Thanks for sharing! May God bless your grandmother.

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Hahaha yeah, it will be really strange if you never saw a firm ripe banana-like mine 😆

Here in my city many types of bananas.

If you just have general bananas, then just fry them with a little oil (no deep frying) then give them sugar caramel or just honey.

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Hi, they have a nice shape, cut them like this, it makes the batter cover more areas. They look very tasty.

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Indonesian often cut the banana for fried like that shapes :) beautiful for sure :)

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Ooohhh never tried cooking those bananas before... I might try that... That looks like our maruya tho the batter includes egg in ours... Nonetheless it looks so yummy!

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Maybe you can find these types of them in the village not really in the city :)

Here we get used to eating fried bananas for breakfast, combined with tea or coffee :)

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I have never fried a banana before, but this makes me think I should try it.

Yum !

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Make sure you find the right type of banana to try this recipe 😊❤️

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ha .... yes.... I can see where it might not work on the average banana we are used to seeing here, but some of the stores also offer some that might work better.

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We call this maruwa.. Some coat it with orange colored batter before cooking..then coat it with sugar after cooking 😊

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