Green bananas from unripe bananas are also worthy of being used as a delicious snack (besides chips) which will surprise you because you never expected it before.
Do you believe that your actual improvisation skills are much better than you previously thought? It also includes the ability to make food from recipes we've never tried before.
I always believe, that when someone has formed a family and has partners and children, that person becomes more skilled in cooking than before. They will be driven by the motivation to want to serve the best loving food, even though they realize their cooking skills are bad. But in the end, the result of the dish was not bad and still worth eating happily. Is not it?
How about you? Have you had any experience with making a meal that surprised you, that it ended well? For me, that's often, because I really like cooking and looking for new recipes to try in my kitchen.
So, this time I will share about a recipe from unripe bananas ingredients that honestly surprised me. I didn't think the recipe would turn out this good.
Making snacks from unripe bananas is still rarely done in my area. One reason is that unripe/green bananas have a very irritating sap on our hands when we peel green bananas. So that's enough reason to make people lazy to process green bananas into snacks. In addition, the taste of the green bananas is slightly different from the ripe on. There is a sour sensation on the tongue that makes people hesitate.
But I have a solution for that, and it made me not hesitate to make ”Flattened Unripe Bananas”. I hope you enjoy this recipe. Stay tuned!
Flattened Unripe Bananas Recipe
I have a large supply of bananas from my family garden, as well as my friend's garden. Usually, we harvest bananas that have entered the ripe stage, not when the bananas are ripe on the tree.
Bananas ripen naturally not at the same time. Usually, there are one or more bananas that turn yellow to indicate the whole banana has entered the ripe age phase. We can't just let and wait for all the bananas to ripen on the tree. That would invite the animals to finish the bananas. Also another factor, some bad guys steal bananas that are almost ripe (this happens a lot where I live).
So, we harvested the whole bunch of bananas, although not all of them ripened evenly. There are some that are still unripe, still green, and the texture is still hard. That's why these few days I also have a stock of unripe bananas.
I have an idea to make snacks from unripe bananas. I want to make snacks that are served with the fried method. But before executing my idea, I looked for references on the internet. I know, the internet always does magic for any search (oops, at least that's what often happens to me, the internet shows me the things I need).
I see many recipes for fried green bananas. But the most interesting thing is a recipe that I found from a video on Instagram, about ”Flattened Unripe Bananas”. Finally, I chose to make a recipe like that, but I modified it based on my taste.
Are you familiar with Flattened Unripe Bananas in your area? Not familiar with my area. That's why I was so excited to experiment with this recipe. Stay tuned!
THE INGREDIENTS
- Unripe Bananas, I use 2 unripe bananas.
- Enough seasoning water, here I mix coriander powder, salt, mushroom stock, and pepper with a few spoons of water.
- Vegetable oil for frying.
PEELING GREEN BANANAS
An important process that actually requires effort is peeling the green bananas. Quite tricky, but it will be easy if you already understand the important tricks.
Before peeling the green bananas, wipe your hands with vegetable oil. Likewise with the knife that will be used for peeling. Grease the knife with vegetable oil. This is so that the green bananas sap does not stick to your hands and avoids your hands being blackened by the sap.
Prepare a bowl of water to soak the peeled green bananas so that the bananas do not turn black.
Peel the green bananas until clean. Remove the green parts that are still attached to the white meat. The green part is the fibers of the banana peel.
Once peeled clean, put the green bananas in the water to avoid discoloration.
CUT GREEN BANANAS
Cut the green bananas into small pieces. Make sure they are the same size to have the same cooking time for them to be cooked through.
After cutting, put the green bananas back into the water until all the bananas are finished to cut.
MARINATE GREEN BANANAS
Next, remove the green bananas from the water, then add them to the seasoning liquid that was made earlier. Wait a while, about five minutes or so.
The mixture for the marinate can be adjusted to your taste. Use the spices you usually use for frying chicken, tempeh, or tofu.
FRYING BANANA
Heat the oil, then fry the marinated green bananas. For each side of the bananas, I spend two-three minutes.
When finished frying on the other side, then remove the fried bananas from the oil.
FLATTEN BANANAS
This is an important and interesting step in this recipe. Once removed from the oil, we have to flatten the fried bananas with a pestle or use a clean stone.
Be careful when handling the fried green bananas during the flattening process because they are still very hot.
Oh, the flattened fried green bananas look so appealing to me. I love the unique shape! For sure!
FRY BANANAS ONCE AGAIN
This recipe uses the double frying method. So, after being flattened, the bananas are deep-fried one more time for a very crispy texture!
Fry for about 2 minutes. You have to really keep an eye on this second-stage frying pan. Don't let the flattened green bananas burn.
THE RESULTS
Whoa! I didn't expect the result to be beautiful in shape. It doesn't taste like green bananas, I swear! Also the crispiest in textures!
My mother validated that. My mother also said that these snacks were beyond expectations. If I don't tell her that these snacks are made from green bananas, then she doesn't think that they are bananas. Ehehe.
She once made fried green bananas but it wasn't as good as what I made. That's because my mother doesn't use the flattening method. That's what makes the big difference.
I'm glad I can make delicious snacks that my mom loves, with simple ingredients that are readily available in my kitchen. See you again in my next recipe!
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Everything with bananas surprises me because here we only eat them as fruit, with "dulce de leche" or smoothies with bananas and milk. Fry a banana? That's rare for us. It could also be because in Argentina we import bananas from Ecuador and in stores we already find them ready to eat.
I would like to try this snack, I can't even imagine the taste of a banana with oil 😅.
Every country has unique food because the ingredients stocks reason :)
In here, we even fry the tipe banana, but using banana with hard-textures variety :)
😋Those must be good!! You’ve given me a lovely idea. In Jamaica, they make something similar from plantains. I love the crispy taste and the salty flavor. I’ve never thought about trying it with bananas!
I hardly cook green bananas now but I remember it wasn’t the easiest thing to peel. Jamaicans often eat them boiled. As you mentioned, hands are oiled well to prevent staining. I remember adding lime juice or a little vinegar to prevent the bananas from turning black when being boiled.
Hi @anggreklestari fried plantains are delicious, in Venezuela we call them "Tostones" and they are prepared as snacks or contorno, we accompany them with tomato sauce or cheese; the greener the plantain the better the tostones.
Blessings!
In my country, Cuba, that way of making bananas is called “tostones” 😋. We don't do this with the banana (fruit) but with the “plátano macho”, which is a not-so-sweet variant of banana 🍌.
you are full of ideas! 😀 . I never thought to fry green bananas in this style, normally I fry green bananas for kripik😀
I know what you mean about the taste of green banana. I don't like it at all. We used to do salad with some pieces of green bananas to eat with crab/fish rice noodles. Every time I prepared the banana, my hands would get the back color and it was so hard to get rid of it. Really good to know now I can put oil in my hands to prevent it happen.
Hello dear friend @anggreklestari good afternoon
It's good that you can get the bananas from your family or friends' plants; What a pity that people steal the banana pieces from the plant
I appreciate that you share this recipe with us, it looks very delicious, and yes, the kitchen made with masters tastes more delicious
Have a beautiful weekend
Yum looks good 😋
Banana is rich in Potassium / Kalium which is helpful for diarrhea recovery
looking forward for your food recipes update 👍
#gif banana minion
Woww! I'm surprised to know that people are aware of dishes made from unripe bananas. I'm from India, and here we do a lot of dishes from unripe and ripe bananas. Banana fritters made from ripened bananas make for a lip smacking evening snacks. This was a rather interesting post for those coming across these dishes for the first time. And thank you so much for sharing the recipes.❤️
TIL people have never heard of tostones
Use plantains, not bananas. They have more starch and fry better. That might be what you are calling green bananas here, hard to tell.
Those look like they would tasted good and I like your presentation.
I have never thought to try to make anything out of a "green" banana.
Always some new idea going on. :)
I was astonished of what you'd cooked. Though it looks simple but it seems it is really delicious.
A creative recipe.
I really like. I'm sure it tastes as good as it looks.
What a unique food 😍
I think if in Indonesia the name could be "Pisang Geprek Krispi" 😁
A new culinary innovation and it looks delicious and so crunchy 🤗
For sure pisang geprek or pisang penyet 😄🤣
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That must be nice. It looks similar to what we have here in mangalore, India. It always amazes me how the same food is consumed in different forms in different parts of the world.