Banana fritters are a popular dessert made by coating bananas in sweet batter and frying them. They are enjoyed in Caribbean and Southeast Asian cuisine and can be made with mashed or sliced bananas. The batter can include spices, seeds, or honey and is fried in oil. There is no definitive recipe, but they are usually served sweet and can be accompanied by chili glaze or vanilla ice cream.
Banana fritters are a type of dessert made by coating or dipping bananas in a sweet batter, then frying them in oil. Most banana fritters are bite-sized and can be made with whole banana segments or fruit puree formed into round spheres. Pancakes are enjoyed by many different cultures, from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia. Almost every country that grows bananas has a recipe for banana pancakes.
In general, any food that is battered and fried in small pieces is known as a pancake. A banana fritter is simply a banana prepared this way. Most batters involve eggs, flour and sugar, but can also involve spices, seeds or honey.
Popular banana fritters in Caribbean cuisine typically involve mashed bananas. These types of dessert pancakes are usually relatively smooth in texture. They require ripe or overripe fruits that are peeled and mixed into the batter itself. These types of batters are typically sweet and often incorporate cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla flavors.
Caribbean pancakes are usually dropped by the spoonful into hot vegetable oil and fried. The batter, which is often thickened with milk and egg yolks, tends to hold its shape when cooked in oil. The pancakes are done when the dough floats to the top. This type of pancakes resemble donut holes in shape, but have the rich taste of bananas.
Banana pancakes popular in Southeast Asian cuisine are generally a bit different. Most of these are made with young, barely ripe bananas that have a firm texture. The fruit is peeled, cut into small segments, then rolled in batter.
Asian-style batter is usually fairly simplistic, usually consisting of nothing more than flour, eggs, and sugar. The bananas are usually skewered or skewered and dipped in the batter, then removed, cooled, and often re-fried. Some recipes call for rolling the bananas in sesame seeds between frying, adding some crunchy, savory texture to the finished pancake.
Most of the pancakes popular in Southeast Asia are fried in coconut, sesame or peanut oil. Chinese and Thai banana fritters often come with a sweet chili glaze. Banana fritters in Singapore are often served with vanilla ice cream or honey glaze.
There is no definitive recipe for banana fritters and cooks often innovate with both the batter and presentation. As far as banana dishes go, banana fritters are some of the easiest to create and make your own. They are almost always served as a dessert or sweet, however. Even the pancakes that are served with chili sauces are usually more sweet than spicy. The spice from the chiles complements the sweetness of the fruit, but the banana flavor is always the dominant flavor.
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