BANANA POE
Source of Recipe
Tahiti1.com
List of Ingredients
6 cooking bananas
1 banana leaf
200 g manioc starch
1 soupspoon oil
castor sugar
1 vanilla been
200 ml coconut milk
Recipe
The banana leaf can be replaced with baking paper.
Prepare all ingredients
Wash and cook the bananas with skin in water for 15 min. check the cooking.
Prepare the banana leaf in passing it rapidly over a flame to soften it, brush with oil.
Drip the cooked bananas, peel then mash. Check the quantity – for 2 volumes banana, add 1 volume starch and ½ volume sugar. The quantity of the sugar can be adjusted according to taste and ripeness of the bananas. Mix well and add the vanilla (inside of the been only).
Spread the “poe” in the middle of the banana leaf. Fold carefully and put on a slightly oiled baking sheet or in a mould.
Bake in the oven at 160o to 175o (Pos. 5-6) for about 45 min. Careful, the banana leaf will smell burnt however the “poe” might not be cooked yet. Check the cooking.
Unfold the banana leaf carefully. Put the “poe” in a plate, cut into large dices and pour ¾ of the coconut milk.
Serve with the remaining quarter of the coconut milk.
Serves 6.
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