Chinese Desserts Recipes - Candied Banana Fritters Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 oz. plain flour
• pinch salt
• 1/2 beaten egg
• water
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• 4 small ripe bananas (choose really ripe bananas)
• peanut oil for deep frying
• 4 small bowls ice-cold water
  Method:
• First make the batter. Sift the flour and salt into a basin. Make a hole in the centre. drop the half egg and 1/3 pint (7/8 cup) water into it and gradually beat them together. Leave to rest for a little.
• Next, prepare the syrup. Very slowly melt the sugar in 3 tablespoons water in a small strong pan. When it is dissolved, boil very hard until the syrup is a very pale straw color.
• Have a folder cold wet cloth at hand. At this point, place the pan on it to arrest further cooking. Skin and scrape the bananas.
• Halve them lengthwise, the cut the across to make four portions per half banana. Dip them into the batter. Drain the, then drop them, one at a time, into the very hot oil and cook them for not more than a minute. Place the separately and in one layer in a hot buttered silver dish.
• Reheat the syrup and carefully pour it over the bananas. Rush them to table where each person will take his or her share and drop them one at a time into the cold water when the surface will crystallize in the most delightful 'bubbles'.
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