Category: Snacks

Banana Fritters

Have you ever had this feeling when you crave for certain food, you get homesick and just want to grab certain food from your imagination and quell hunger? Well, I got hungry and saw these over-ripe bananas languishing in my fruit box which brought me into making banana fritters for tea.

Fritters are popularly used with a variety of fruits and vegetables which are usually deep fried.

Preparation time:  10 minutes

Cook: 15 minutes

Makes: 25

Ingredients

Vegetable oil for deep-frying

Mashed Ripe Banana – 3 long

All-Purpose Flour –  1 1/2 cup

Grated coconut – 3 tbsp

Salt – 1/2 tsp

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Sugar – 1 1/2 tbsp

Rice Flour – 1/2 cup

Water – 1 cup 

 

Directions

1. Place the coconut, flour, salt, baking powder, sugar, rice flour into a deep container.

salt, all-purpose flour

Add all-purpose flour, salt

sugar

Add sugar

Baking powder

Baking powder

Rice flour

Rice flour

2. Pour the mashed banana into the flour mixture. Add water and mix till well combined to make a thick batter.

banana mash

banana mixture

Add banana mash and water

banana fritter mixture

3. Fill a deep-fry pan with enough vegetable oil for deep frying. Turn it on to medium heat  and leave it to heat (see notes for details).

4. Drop a tablespoon of the banana mix into the oil, and fry up to 5 or 6 at a time on medium heat (make sure not to add too much mixture as it will puff up slightly while it cooks). Keeping an eye on them, turn with a slotted spoon for a few times until they turn golden brown on each side.

deep-fry

deep-fry

Remove and drain on kitchen towels to remove excess oil. Repeat the process until all the mixture is used.

 

5. Serve warm , or let it cool completely. 

banana fritters

 

Storage suggestion

+ Store in airtight container at room temperature and use within a day

 

 

Note

*To check if the oil is hot enough, take a pinch of the mixture and drop it in the oil, it should sizzle with bubbles surrounding it.

 

 

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Moist Cassava Cake (or Tapioca Cake)

Cassava cake is one of my favorite snack with a light, delicious, aromatic flavor. It is one of the traditional tea time snack that looked inviting to me at the local bakeries in Singapore. It might look simple but once you taste it the texture of the cake is supremely addictive. Tapioca cake in Malay is called as Kuih Bingka Ubi.

Tapioca is extracted from Cassava root. The flesh can be chalk-white or yellowish. Hence, the color.

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cook : 1 hr 30 minutes

 

Ingredients

Round baking pan 25 cm

Parchment paper

Grated tapioca – 1 kg, at room temperature (1.4 kg when I bought it before peeling.You can use a store bought grated tapioca or manually grate it if not available).

Eggs – 2

Granulated Sugar – 1 cup

Salt – 1/4 tsp

Undiluted coconut milk – 375 ml

Water – 1/4 cup

 

Directions

For Grating the tapioca

If you have grated tapioca that’s bought from the market skip these steps.

 

+ Peel the cassava root.

Cassava root, tapioca

Tapioca, Cassava

 

+ Grate the tapioca with a grater as shown below.

Grated tapioca

 

+ Once the grating is done, use a 15 inch long cotton towel. Place the grated tapioca at the center of the towel and get the ends of the towel together in your palm and squeeze the juices (or tapioca starch) from the grated tapioca until dry. (I did this part by part so it gets easier to squeeze excess liquid from them).

Tapioca starch

+ Place the liquid-starch aside. In about 15 mins – 30 mins you will notice a white powder settling at the bottom.

 

 

1. Preheat oven to 175 degree Celsius (350 degree F) for 10 mins, grease the pan with parchment paper.

Round baking pan, parchment paper

2. Carefully pour in the liquid ( liquid-starch ) into the grated tapioca leaving behind the white starch at the bottom. 

Tapioca Starch

3. In a separate bowl combine eggs, sugar and salt. Mix until the sugar is partially dissolved. Pour this to the above mixture.

eggs, sugar

eggs, salt, sugar

4. Add coconut milk and water. Mix well.

coconut milk, Ayam brand

grated tapioca, sugar,salt,eggs

5. Gradually, pour the mixture into the baking tray. Tap the edges to settle any unfilled gaps.

baking tray, tapioca

 

6. Bake for 1 hour at 180 degree Celsius. Insert a skewer into the center and make sure it comes out clean. (I baked it for 1 hr 30 minutes to get a nice color at the top).

 

7.  Remove it from the oven and let it cool completely.

Cassava cake, tapioca cake

Tapioca cake, Cassava cake

Storage:

+ Store in airtight container in the fridge.

+ Reheat and serve.

 

 

 

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