Pisang Goreng (Banana Fritters) 🇮🇩🇲🇾🇸🇬🇧🇳
Pisang Goreng (Banana Fritters) 🇮🇩🇲🇾🇸🇬🇧🇳
Pisang Goreng, which means fried bananas in Malay/Indonesian language. It is a Southeast-Asian street snack and very popular in Malaysia and Indonesia, also in Singapore and Brunei.
The Bananas are deep-fried, crispy on the outside, sweet and creamy on the inside. A perfect teatime snack that pairs well with coffee, tea (like Malaysian Teh Tarik), or Milo.
#History ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Banana fritter was first introduced by the Portuguese, who had a habit to eat bananas as breakfast. The habit was introduced to Southeast Asia when the Portuguese conquered Malacca and some places in Indonesia. They added flour batter to peeled bananas and fried them. The habit spread to the local people, and remains popular until now.
As the culinary world evolves, banana fritters are served in many varieties. One variety serves banana fritter with shredded cheese and is popularly known as cheese banana. Cheese banana is fried banana served with various toppings such as cheese, chocolate, condensed milk, and chopped peanuts.
Cheese banana itself comes in two varieties, with or without flour batter. There are also two varieties of cooking methods, i.e. fried or grilled. Although the cooking method varies, cheese banana always consists of a banana-based dished with shredded cheese topping.
The varieties that are suitable for frying or grilling are uli,tanduk, kepok, and nangka bananas. These type of bananas have naturally sweet flavor and are not to soft, so they wont’s break apart when fried or grilled.
Banana is easily available and affordable. It is no wonder that you can easily find seller of cheese banana everywhere. A lot of people also make their own cheese banana at home, as the recipe is relatively simple.
In addition to its delicious taste, cheese banana is also good for your body. Banana has high content of vitamins, calorie, potassium, carbohydrate, and others. Whereas the milk and cheese used as topping also contain high protein, calcium, and others. In addition, banana is also good for the skin.
Cheese banana itself has experienced many changes. Today, crispy cheese banana has become popular. In general, crispy cheese banana is not different than banana fritters. Crispy cheese banana uses another ingredients, i.e., bread crumbs. Once fried, crispy banana has a coarse but crunchy texture. To sum up, crispy banana uses two different types of flour.
It is served just like regular cheese banana. You can add shredded cheese, chocolate, and condensed milk.