

The history of bananaīanana is one of the oldest fruits, whose existence and importance are confirmed since ancient times. In Vietnam, pre-flattened bananas are sold in all supermarkets. You can use a small wooden board or a glass. The essential technique of this recipe is to gently flatten the banana without crushing it, ensuring that it does not break. It is imperative that the banana is ripe (but not overripe) because it is at its sweetest point and is easy to work with. However, you can use any type of mini banana or classic banana. To prepare the chuối chiên, people use mini-bananas, also called baby-bananas, or even Siamese bananas (chuối xiêm or chuối sứ), that can generally be found in most Asian supermarkets.

Some recipes flavor chuối chien with coconut milk, or butter, wine, or honey, and it may also happen that eggs are added to the dough. Apart from the main ingredient, banana, the dough, in the most classic version includes rice flour, wheat flour, sugar and salt. The dish is made with inexpensive and popular ingredients for a very simple recipe. Chuối chiên are from the Vietnamese countryside. They are incredibly crisp, slightly sweet and certainly a little fat. These delicious fritters, dubbed the Vietnamese banana pancake, are one of the most popular traditional sweets in the country. In Vietnamese, chuối means banana and chiên means fried. Chuối chien are fried bananas and they are, without a doubt, one of Vietnam’s most popular street food desserts.Ĭhuối chiên are the Vietnamese version of Indonesian and Malaysian fried bananas called pisang goreng and Thai fried bananas called kluay thot.
