How to cook Pinaypay – Filipino banana fritters

Ingredients are very simple.

• Saba banana or Plantain, I prefer rippen
• Flour and water for batter
• Food colouring or mixture of turmeric and paprika
• Salt for batter
• Sugar for coating

Prepare batter. Add flour into cold water constantly steering. Add salt to make is slightly salty and food colouring to make nice reddish colour. Add flour to mixture and mix until it will turns into slightly viscous batter, which can cover and stick to fingers.

Cut banana lengthwise up-to almost end into 3-4 slices and slightly pressing them, open them as a hand fan. They should looks fanned. This will help them to cook more easily

Preheat oil to 180°C and start cooking. During cooking, try to keep oil between 170° and 180° C. Deep fanned bananas into batter, and move them carefully into hot oil. Cook about 4-5 min turning every so often.

Take out from oil, drain on paper towel and sprinkle with sugar. Serve and enjoy. This is very simple recipe and it is difficult to make it wrong, specially if you ar ok to work with hot oil. For more details, look carefully our video





a and try to repeat it at home!