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Banana Cue is simple, healthy and sweet perfect for ‘meryenda’ or snack time!
You’ve probably experienced randomly craving for a snack. But after looking in your pantry, you only find a lot of unhealthy junk food. You’re about to settle for that bag of chips and suddenly, you remember you’re on a diet—trying to eat healthier. So here’s a healthier option for you!
Banana cue is a common Filipino snack or street food that is made from, you guessed it, banana. This is one of the Philippine’s most important fruit crop. Since bananas are abundant in this country, the locals have found many ways on how to cook or consume it. One of these ways is creating the Banana Cue.
We love eating this snack especially when were having a busy day and don’t have much time to cook. The kids love it too! It gives the perfect heaviness to the tummy enough to fuel you for the rest of the day.
It’s easy to prepare and great for re-energizing yourself. If you want to have a guilt-free, sweet and healthy snack, Banana Cue is perfect for You!
Banana Cue Ingredients
- Saba (Plantain) – these are bigger/wider types of Banana. It is also mildly sweet
- Muscovado/ Brown Sugar
- Butter
Cooking Directions
- Begin with peeling the Saba and slicing it lengthwise. You can control how thick you want the slices to be.
- After preparing the Saba, place about 127 grams or ½ cup of butter on the pan. Put it over low heat.
- Melt the butter and place in the Muscovado. With this step, there is no specific measurement for the amount of muscovado. The trick here is that the muscovado has to be more than the butter.
- Mix the muscovado with the butter until the grains of the muscovado have melted. If there are a few, small clumps of muscovado, that’s okay too.
- At this point, the mixture should look a bit watery and sticky or in other words, slightly caramelized
- When it starts to bubble, you can now place in the Saba slices. After half a minute on one side, you can now flip it over. Just make sure to coat both sides of the Saba with the mixture of muscovado and butter.
- It takes about a minute to cook each slice and then you can transfer it to a plate already.
- If the mixture runs out, just make a new one.
- Give the Banana cue time to cool down. The coating is going to be sticky at this point.
- Once its cooled down, you can finally have a bite of that Banana Cue
Experience Filipino Street food right at the comfort of your own homes with this simple Banana Cue recipe.
Let us know what you think about this recipe in the comment section below. Enjoy!