Hello Plant Power Lovers. in this world there are a lot of food ingredients that can be combined to produce the taste we want. We can combine chewy tapioca flour with savory coconut milk to produce candil porridge, we can also combine various kinds of vegetables with peanut sauce to produce pecal or gado gado.
Various techniques to combine various flavors is what makes a cook has its own characteristics.Talking about combining food ingredients, today I will combine bananas which have a soft texture with a sweet taste with grated coconut which has a slightly rough texture with a savory taste. Today I will make “lemet banana” which is one of the traditional Indonesian cakes.
Lemet is a cake that is usually served at party events such as weddings, thanksgiving,religious events,mutual cooperation events,family gatherings and other events.
The hallmark of traditional lemet cakes is the banana leaf used to wrap the dough.But nowadays, many people directly steam the dough with a steamer without using banana leaves, this is because the price of banana leaves is getting expensive and hard to find in urban areas.
The dough that we wrap in banana leaves has a distinctive smell and taste, but the soft taste that is steamed directly without banana leaves is also not much different from that wrapped in banana leaves.
The main ingredients we use are ripe bananas that are already mushy, try bananas that don't have seeds, because if you make a cake and when you eat it there are seeds, the cake tastes less delicious.
Before starting to make lemet cakes, we provide banana leaves to wrap the dough. let's look in the garden.
We take one stem and we dry it in the sun so that the leaves wither so that it is easy to use for wrapping.
The ingredients that we prepare to make lemet cakes are:
6 ripe bananas (300 grams)
grated coconut from 1/2 coconut (about 100 grams), choose a rather young and when grated take only the white part.
150 grams bread crumbs.
50 grams tapioca flour.
200 grams palm sugar.
1/2 tablespoon salt.
how to make a lemet cake:
The first step: peel the banana, then puree the flesh, I use a glass cup to smooth it.
The second step: puree palm sugar, then put it into the banana mixture that has been mashed.
The step three: add salt to the dough, then stir until the dough is well blended.
The fourth step: add bread crumbs into the dough.
The fifth step : add tapioca flour, stir until all the dough is mixed.
The sixth step: put the grated coconut into the mixture, stir until all the ingredients are well blended.
The seventh step: prepare banana leaves and a steaming pan.
The eighth step: put 1 tablespoon of the dough into the banana leaf.
The ninth step: wrap the dough.
The tenth step: let's arrange the dough that has been wrapped in banana leaves into the steamer, steamed until cooked (it took me 40 minutes to steam.
serve with a cup of hot coffee or tea.
