What is the one fruit that everyone loves to eat regardless of their culinary heritage? It’s banana. From India’s banana chips to Italy’s banana pancakes, bananas are tasty, nutritious and make for a great snack to munch on. (These benefits of a banana leaf are a must-read). Did you know that bananas have huge health benefits, including being mood uplifters, curing headaches and helping in weight-loss? Banana skins are used to treat insect bites. Bananas are also a rich source of anti oxidants, vitamin C, calcium and folic acid. Due to these health benefits, bananas are a go-to snack to give to kids too. (Also Read: Try These Easy-To-Make Banana Dishes At Home)
A popular street food of the Philippines includes bananas. The street food is called as Bananacue or banana cue. The term combines some words from banana and the other from barbecue. Bananacue is made from caramelising deep fried bananas that are coated in sugar. The Bananacue are a delicious snack that are skewered on a bamboo stick and sold in the streets of Philippines. The skewer stick is just for the ease of serving and eating, but the dish is however, not really cooked on a skewer. The bananas used in making Bananacue are Saba bananas, which is a variety of bananas that are commonly found in the Philippines. (Also read: Philippines Woman Receives ‘Fried Towel’ Instead Of ‘Fried Chicken)
The Bananacue makes for a great snack to relish along with turon which is a deep fried wrapped banana roll, filled with sweet jack fruit. Other snacks that go well with bananacue include kamotecue (deep-fried skewered sweet potatoes with brown sugar), pilipit (deep fried twisted donut) and bicho-bicho (another type of deep fried twisted donut). The banana cue can be relished as a snack or dessert. For those of you who want to try your hand at this delicious street food, but don’t have access to Philippines’ Saba banana, Plantains, Burro bananas, or Thai Bananas can be used in their place. Also, the bamboo skewers are unnecessary, so if you don’t have any, you can eat the banana cue with your hands or utensils.
Here’s a recipe of banana cue that you can try out, and relish as a mid-afternoon summer snack:
Ingredients:
* Bananas - 6 pieces
* Brown sugar - 2 cups
* Cooking oil - 4 cups
Method:
* Heat a cooking pot then pour-in cooking oil.
* When the oil becomes hot, deep fry the bananas for 2 minutes.
* Gradually put-in the brown sugar, adjust the heat to medium-low and continue cooking until the melted brown sugar coats the bananas.
*Gently stir the bananas so that they can get coated with melted brown sugar easily.
* Remove the cooked bananas one by one and immediately skewer using a bamboo skewer. Using two pieces of bananas per skewer is recommended.
* Let cool then serve along side a glass of cold soda.