Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Steam, pounded bananas of getuk from Java

Getuk is among popular snack foods in Indonesia, particularly in Java Island. What is getuk? People mostly make them from cassava being pounded, and then turn them into small loaves by steaming and adding some sugar. But now, and this is the chance, you can make it also out of bananas. And tanduk pisang is the best main ingredient. How do you make it?

Ingredients

  • 3 hands of tanduk pisang
  • 3 table spoon of sago powder
  • 100 gram of ground white sugar (!)
  • 100 mililiter of coconut milk
  • ¼ tea spoon of salt
  • ¼ tea spoon of vanilla powder

Additional ingredients
  • Half of mature coconut meat, grated longitudinally
  • ¼ tea spoon of salt
  • One piece of pandanus leaf
  • Banana leaves and, of course, palm leaf ribs to tie (now here people mostly use stapler, what a mess)

How to cook?
  • Steam the tanduk bananas until well cooked, then take them and while remain warm, crush them and mix them with the ground sugar and the coco milk. Add sago powder, and mix them well.
  • Take a piece of banana leaf; wrap the banana doughy mixture while rolling it with banana leaf as each needed. Pinch each with the palm leaf rib. Steam the rolls for 30 minutes. Take them out and let them cool down as they get somehow firmer. Voila, you get the banana getuk!
  • Mix the grated coconut with a little bit of salt, mix well, and add the pandanus leaf, then steam it for some time.
  • Cut the getuk into small pieces as you like and spread some grated coco on to them before you taste.

Share us your experience. How do they taste?**

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