Banana puffs
6 servings
Ingredients
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
2 | Ripe bananas | |
100 | grams | Self-raising flour |
½ | teaspoon | Castor sugar |
½ | teaspoon | Lemon juice |
100 | grams | Castor sugar |
1 | teaspoon | Cinnamon |
1 | cup | Oil for frying |
Strawberry or rasberry jam |
Directions
Mash bananas with 100 g of castor sugar and lemon juice, add flour and mix to a thick paste.
Heat oil in a small pan to smoking point, then turn heat to low. Use 2 teaspoons to push one teaspoon of dough into the oil, doing no more than 6 at a time.
Turn puffs over and keep turning for 2 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon, drain and roll in cinnamon and sugar.
Serve with jam.
Recipe by Clara Hirschler, from the Sydney Telegraph-Mirror 16 th June, 1993. p45. Posted by Mark Herron.