Vietnamese Fried Banana Cake
Vietnamese Fried Banana Cake is one of the most favorite traditional sweet cakes for its amazing taste. The cake is smelling, crispy, light sweet and a little greasy. Originated in Vietnam’s countryside, the cake has cheap and popular ingredients and simple recipe. Main ingredient is banana and wheat flour, rice flour. Honey, egg, butter, wine, sugar and salt are optional. After peeled banana is dipped into the batter made from wheat flour, it is deep-fried in oil until the cake turns crispy and yellow. It’s better eaten right after frying, dinners can enjoy its crispy wrapper and soft, sweet banana. It has been said that there’s no food better Vietnamese Fried Banana Cake on rainy days. In the past, women in families usually cook this cake when they are free and there are some ripen bunches of bananas in their garden. Children sit around the charcoal oven and wait for ready cakes. This may be one of the most beautiful moments in life of Vietnamese people. In recent days, Fried Banana Cakes are sold popularly by street vendors who cook right on the streets.
Crispy sweet Fried Banana Cake attracts many generations in Vietnam
Here are simple recipe to make Vietnamese Fried Banana Cake:
– Vietnamese bot banana: 6
– Rice flour: 200g
– Wheat flour: 100g
– Coconut cream: 250ml
– Water: 170ml
– Lemon juice: 1 coffee spoon
– Salt: 1/2 coffee spoon
– Sugar: 30g
Ingredients to make Vietnamese Fried Banana Cake
– Step 1: Peel banana, cut it vertically into 2 pieces, put each piece into a plastic bag and use a knife or chopping board press onto the banana piece so that it turns twice as thin as original one.
– Step 2: To make batter, mix well rice flour, wheat flour, coconut cream, water, lemon juice, salt, sugar in a big bowl.
– Step 3: Dip banana piece into batter so that batter cover the piece, put it into boiling oil as fast as possible.
– Step 4: Deep-fry until the cake turn crispy, smelling and yellow; get ready cake out of oil and put it on oil absorbent paper before serving.
Note: you can fry some cakes at the same time
Peeled banana and batter are ready to be deep-fried
Half of banana is pressed to be thinner and wider
Banana pieces covered with batter are deep-fried in oil
Hi! Thank you for this recipe!
I have those ingredients and wanted to know if they are ok.
-ripped sweet plantain banana instead of bot banana?
-If no coconut cream?
– If no rice flour?
Can i do the recipe anyway you think?
Hi Amelie,
Thanks for your interest in this Vietnamese food 🙂
I have made this cake with plantain banana when I did not have bot banana -> the cake is delicious.
I also made the cake without coconut cream. The crust is less greasy, some people like less greasy crust, some prefer greasy crust.
You can use wheat flour instead of rice flour. But I think banana cakes made from wheat flour are not as delicious as ones made from rice flour.
If you have more questions, please do not hesitate to ask me.