Lepat Pisang Recipe

Lepat Pisang Recipe

Ingredients: 

11 ripe bananas (pisang awak)

180 g plain flour

90 g sugar

½ coconut, grated

½ teaspoon salt

Banana leaves

 

Method:

Skin bananas, clean, and mash bananas until fine.  Add 1 rice bowl of water to grated coconut and squeeze for milk.  Soak banana leaves in boiling water until soft.  Remove.  Clean and dry with cloth.  Cut into 12.5 cm x 22.5 cm pieces.  Put flour, mashed bananas, sugar, ½ teaspoon salt into mixing bowl and slowly add some coconut milk.  Stir until it becomes a soft dough.  Beat well, add remainder of the coconut milk into dough.  It should not be too watery or thick.  Roll a banana leaf into a cylindrical shape.  Fold one end up.  Fill the leaf packet with dough from the open end.  Seal end and fasten with staple or toothpick.  Put on a steaming tray and steam for 10 to 15 minutes.  Remove, cool and serve.

 

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