Going Banana (Fritters)

Banana Fritters is one of my fave. I love having banana fritters with chocolate sauce, honey or vanila ice cream. It's easy to make and what's more, banana is good for your body.

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup milk
2 bananas, cut into piece

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup icing sugar or powdered sugar

Vegetable oil for frying

DIRECTIONS

1. In a mixing bowl, combine the milk and bananas. Sift in the flour, salt, and baking powder. Thoroughly mix in the eggs.

2. Heat the oil in a large skillet.

3. Carefully place the banana (piece by piece) into the hot oil and fry until brown. Flip the fritter and continue to brown. Remove fritters from the oil and drain on paper towels.

4. Dust the fritters with icing sugar and serve while warm. You can also serve it with honey or chocolate sauce.

Ba Ba Banoffee Pie

This is the easy and cheap version of Bannoffee Pie. It is my adaptation of Vanilla Industry's Banoffee Pie (with cheaper and lesser ingredients). Here goes.

Ingredients:

(For 8 Cups)

For Pie

2 Packs of Oreo Cookies, only the cookies are needed...as for the cream filling...

[The Funny thing is I think I gain more Kgs from cooking this since I was pretty tempted by Oreo Cream fillings]

1/3 Cup of Melted Butter

4 Banana, sliced

2 Cups of Whipping Cream, whipped til peaking

Cinnamon

For Caramel

1/3 Cup of Butter

1/2 Cup of Sweeten Condensed Milk

2 Tablespoons of Brown Sugar

1 Tablespoons of Sugar

Other Tools

1 Ziplock Bag

Instructions:

1. Crush the cookies in the ziplock bag with rolling pin until they are reduced to crumbs. Place the crumbs in mixing bowl.

2. Pour 1/3 cup of melted butter into the crumbs and mix them until they start to bind together.

3. Transfer the biscuit crumbs to the serving glasses (or whatever dish you are using) and pat with a spoon so that they cover the base.

4. Place the sliced bananas on top of the cookies. Place in the fridge to set.

5. Heat the butter, brown sugar, sugar and condensed milk in sauce pan. Keep stirring until all the ingredients are melt and mixed. When done, set aside for the caramel to cool down.

6. Pour the caramel onto the cookies and bananas. Place back in the fridge to cool.

7. Whip the cream until peaking, then fold on top and smooth out.

8. Dust with cinnamon powder. Keep in the fridge until needed.

Tago Sago (Sago Topped with Coconut Pudding)

I got this recipe from a cookbook a friend gave me. It's a simple desserts, but takes time to prepare esp. the sago (it takes like 15 minutes for the sago to be cooked). But the result?? Really worth it!

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup of Pandan Sago (Can find in most supermarket (in Thailand))

1/4 Cup of Tapioca Starch

1/2 Cup of Rice Flour

3 Cups of Water

2 1/2 Cup of Sugar

2 Cups of Coconut Milk (I use instant coconut milk)

1 Teaspoon of Salt

Directions

Sago:

Mix the sago, water and tapioca flour together (avoid clumps). And Heat the mixture until the sago is cooked. Normally, it'll take about 15 minutes for the sago to cook. Keep stirring if you don't want the sago to the sauce pan. Add 1 1/2 cup of sugar when the sago is cooked.

....... 15 minutes later

Tip: Use a new saucepan or pot or the one without burn marks on the buttom. Burn marks can make the sago burn easily.

Coconut Cream:

Mix coconut milk, rice flour, salt and the remaining sugar. Blend the ingredients together and heat the mixture until the coconut milk thicken into cream.