Shopping list peanut-butter sauce
1 clove crushed garlic
2 teaspoons grated ginger root
2 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon tomato paste
half jar of Faja Lobi peanut butter
100 ml milk (or water)
1 tablespoon vinegar
3 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon laos
salt to taste
optional: 1/2 Madam Jeanette pepper
A very famous and delicious Surinamese dish is Baka bana or fried banana. The bananas used in this dish are Plantains, a starchy, unsweet banana variety, inedible raw.
The baka bana is traditionally served with a spicy peanut sauce. The Surinamese peanut butter is already hot, if you like even hotter, add a half fresh Madam Jeanette pepper (hot chili) to the peanut sauce. For kids, the sauce then is too spicy, they eat the baka bana rather with icing sugar ;)) Which is really tasty as well!
Start with making the spicy Surinam Peanut Sauce
Press the garlic and cut the chilli fine.
Grate 2 teaspoons root ginger.
Bake garlic, chilli and ginger soft.
Stir in tomato paste when the spices are soft.
Add the peanut butter and stir it in firmly.
Keep stirring while the mixture thickens.
Slowly pour in the milk while stirring.
Stir in vinegar, soy sauce and then the laos, finally taste the sauce, check the consistency and if the sauce needs some salt.
Keep the sauce warm and make the Baka Bana
The ingredients for Baka Bana
2 large plantain (plantains) 1 teaspoon cane sugar
100 grams self-raising flour pinch of salt
175 ml water vegetable frying oil
Weigh and measure all the ingrdients.
In a bowl beat flour, water, sugar and salt together.
Peel the plantain.
Heat the oil to 180°C
Cut the plantain into long thin slices.
Cover the plantain slices all around in batter.
Fry the baka bana they are until golden brown.
Drain the Baka Bana on kitchen paper.
Place the warm baka bana on a plate and pour peanut sauce on it.
Our youngest mini-monsters eat baka bana with icing sugar.
Give extra sauce on the side. Left over sauce can be kept in a closed jar in the fridge for a couple of days, it tastes delicious with any type meat.
Njang Switie!