Lemon leche flan
Toffee bananas
- 4 FIRM BANANAS, cut in quarters
- 200 GRAM SUGAR
- 100 GRAM FLOUR
- 3 TBSP SESAME SEED
- OIL FOR DEEP FRYING
Add 1/2 cup water to the sugar and bring to the boil. Boil on high heat until the syrup starts to turn golden brown and pour this mixture on the bottom of 4 bowls. Bring the milk to the boil. Separate two eggs, beat three eggs and add two egg yolks. Stir the hot milk into this mixture, and add the condensed milk, the lemon juice and rind. Distribute this mixture over the four bowls. Fill an oven tray with water, put the bowls in the water and bake the flan 40 minutes in the oven at 175 degrees Celsius.
Mix the flour with 3/4 cup of cold water and let it rest for half an hour. Roll the banana pieces through the batter and deep fry until golden brown. In the mean time, prepare a large bowl with water and ice cubes. Heat the sugar with half a cup of water in a pan with thick bottom on high heat. Stir well, until it becomes light brown, then turn off the heat. Roll the banana pieces through the caramel mixture, and dip them in to the cold water with the help of two forks. Sprinkle with sesame seed.
Toffee bananas are popular in China. On the 12th of March, the Chinese celebrate "tree planting day". By resolution, everybody is "voluntary forced" to plant 3-5 trees a year or do the equivalent of work on the land. Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and celebration.
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