Banana Turon

TURON is a popular dessert in the Philippines. Mostly sold as a street food. They are foods that are ready to eat, sold by vendors usually on a carts along the streets or public places like markets and also near the schools. 

It uses lumpia wrapper and sugar as its main ingredients. There are a lot of choices on what to put inside the wrapper as your filling. In this recipe, we will be using banana with jackfruit. Adding ripe jackfruit gives the turon a strong sweet smell specially when cooked. Most Filipinos will choose this over other meryendas because of its affordability and it just taste delicious. All you need are LUMPIA WRAPPER (you can make your own lumpia wrapper, I will be posting the homemade lumpia soon), slices of BANANAS (You may use other types of bananas but I prefer to use the Saba/plantain), JACKFRUIT (is an optional ingredient but it will make your turon more flavorful), SUGAR ( preferably brown) and lastly cooking OIL for deep frying.

You can also make it more special by making latik/coconut caramel as its sauce.  It is a condiment derived when you reduce coconut and sugar.

Turon is one of our favorite Filipino snacks because my kids really loves Lumpia and turon is the sweet version of it. They like the crunchiness of the wrapper when fried. 

You will need:

6 bananas (sliced) preferably Saba/plantain 
1 cup ripe Jackfruit (strips)

2 cups brown sugar

2 pieces lumpia wrapper

2 cups cooking oil

Steps:

Peel banana and slice it in half.

Coat the banana with brown sugar
 by rolling it to a plate of sugar.
(coat it with good amount of sugar)

Place the sugar coated banana in the

 lumpia wrapper with strips of jackfruit.
(you can be more generous with the jackfruit) 
The more strips of jackfruit you put, 
the more flavorful it will be.

Roll and lock the wrapper and put

 water to the edge to seal it.

Time to cook: 

Heat the oil in a cooking pot. Once the oil is hot,

 place the wrapped banana slowly,

if you have a smaller cooking pot do it by batch.

Once the turon is half cook or wrapper turns

 into very light brown, add the sugar.

Wait for the wrapper to turn to golden brown,

by that time the sugar will stick to the wrapper.

Remove it and place it on a plate.

Enjoy!