Banana-choco pudding

Actually I wanted to make nagasari, an Indonesian traditional steam cake made from rice flour, coconut milk, sugar, and filled with banana slices. Considering that we didn't have banana leaves here (to wrap nagasari), I modified my wish (haha) into something with easier ingredients: banana-choco pudding.

The basic pudding was this milk pudding (my previous post). I added chocolate and used banana instead of orange and kiwi. As I expected, the result reminded me to nagasari without banana leaves. This pudding is definitely something that I will make again in the future.

Itadakima~su!

Braised banana with coconut gravy

Today's menu is another coconut-based dish: braised banana with coconut gravy (a.k.a. kolak pisang, hehehe).

Banana is easy to find in Japan. Almost all convenient stores (mini markets, e.g., ministop, seven-eleven, circle-K) sell it. Beside banana fritter (pisang goreng), I like to eat banana as "kolak pisang". When I showed my kolak pisang result to some of my Indonesian friends, they wondered why it looked so pale. I guess it was mainly because I didn't use palm sugar. But don't worry, this kolak pisang still tastes wonderful.

Try to make it yourself! ;)

Choco-banana smoothie!!

I decided to buy food processor because I got tired cutting meat into small pieces. It was hard to recognize this food processor because:
1. I have never seen any food processor before
2. All is written in Japanese! :D