I wrote in my post the other day that we don’t get to eat Chinese food that often mainly because it is not very coeliac friendly, however one thing that I do remember from my very long time ago visits to Chinese restaurants is the delicious dessert toffee banana. Being in the Chinese mood, well it is Chinese New Year this week, plus a vat of oil just screaming to be used after I made vegetable spring rolls, I could not resist trying my hand at deep fat frying again. So, here is my utterly sticky Hazelnut Toffee Banana and Apple recipe.
This is sooo full of fat and sugar so not for the faint hearted but it is oh so good, and oh so easy I cannot believe I haven’t made it before. Whilst I didn’t make this gluten free purely because I had fried something with gluten in the oil, stupidly, I am sure this recipe would work just as well using gluten free flour.
I have always preferred this Chinese dessert made with banana but I have also had toffee apple and as one of the children isn’t too keen on bananas I decided to do a mixture of the two. Unfortunately for said daughter it is a bit like playing banana roulette because once the battered fruit have been fried and coated in a crispy toffee shell you can’t tell which is which until you bite into these gorgeous crispy, squishy, sweet delights.
Hazelnut Toffee Banana and Apple recipe
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Serves: 16
- 50g self raising flour
- 30g cornflour plus extra for coating
- 100ml cold water
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 300g sugar
- 40g chopped hazelnuts
- 2 bananas each chopped into 4 or 5 pieces and or
- 1 apple, peeled, cored and cut into 8
- Oil for deep frying
- Put the flour, cornflour, baking powder, vanilla extract and water into a bowl and mix to make a wet batter.
- Coat the banana and apple lightly in cornflour.
- Heat enough oil to deep fry, in a deep pan until it reaches 180ºC (or until a cube of bread turns golden in 15 seconds & floats to the surface).
- Use a wooden skewer to coat the fruit in the batter and then drop the fruit into the hot oil carefully.
- Only do a couple of pieces at a time.
- Turn the fruit over in the oil after a couple of seconds and then remove from the oil with a slotted spoon.
- Drain on kitchen paper.
- Once all the fruit has been deep fried put the sugar in a heavy based pan.
- Prepare a bowl with ice cold water (if you have ice great if you don't make sure the water is as cold as you can get it).
- Heat the sugar on a medium to low heat shaking every so often to stop it catching, don't stir it though until the sugar has melted and is a deep amber colour.
- Quickly coat each piece in the toffee sauce and then drop into the ice water. Remove immediately onto a plate.
- Repeat very quickly until all of the battered pieces are coated in toffee and then sprinkle them with the chopped hazelnuts.Even better if you can get someone else to sprinkle the hazelnuts whilst you carry on coating. (The toffee sets very quickly).
- Best served warm, even lovelier with ice cream.
Also, be patient with the sugar, better to allow it to melt slowly than to end up with burnt toffee and a ruined pan.
Oh my that looks absolutely delicious. I love Chinese food and these look like something I could eat a large plate of right now!!
They were delicious. 😀
These look delicious! xxx
Thanks very much 😀
These sound delicious, I doubt mine would even try so would be more for me
Well, exactly! 😉
These look delicious. I’ve only just started to deep fry things and as I’m set up will definitely give these a go!
Ha, me too…now I want to deep fry everything ! 😉
Hubby just walked past and said yummy when he saw the pictures – looks like I shall be attempting these later
Awww that’s great, I hope he liked them 🙂
Yum. Nothing better than the banana and chocolate combination!
Thanks, no chocolate but they do taste good 🙂
They look and sound delicious. I love toffee, I love hazelnut. I love chocolate and I love banana – win!
Thank you! 😀
Oh my how delicious this looks! Perfect weekend treat I must say 🙂 Tweeted and pinned!
Thank you very much, they were good I have to admit 🙂
That looks and sounds delicious – and even better, I have everything I need in my pantry and freezer!
Well I hope you like them 🙂
wow these look amazing! I have never seen or heard of them before but they look so delicious and don’t seem to difficult to make either! Thanks for sharing.
Jess
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Thank you! No very easy to make. 🙂
How delicious does this look 🙂 Yummy. My son would love this so I have bookmarked it.
Thank you, I hope he enjoys them 🙂
I’m not a huge Chinese food fan but I do love their toffee banana. Thanks for the recipe, I didn’t really think about making it myself!
It is so good isn’t it. 🙂
Hiya
I am not a fan of Hazelnut or banana but I would give these a try! They look really tasty. Thanks for the recipe x
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Thank you, I thought I would use hazelnuts to make them a little different but sesame seeds are more traditional 🙂
These look delicious! I’ve had deep fried banana at a Chinese restaurant before, but it was quite heavily battered. I much prefer the look of yours, especially with the toffee & chocolate! I love your spring rolls as well! Always wanted to make some.
These do have a batter but it is quite light. 🙂
Oh gosh, see what you mean with the fat and suger, but my goodness I bet they are good.
Thanks so much 🙂