Hazelnut Toffee Banana and Apple
 
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Delicious Chinese dessert that is quick and easy to make.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Chinese
Serves: 16
Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
  1. Put the flour, cornflour, baking powder, vanilla extract and water into a bowl and mix to make a wet batter.
  2. Coat the banana and apple lightly in cornflour.
  3. 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).
  4. Use a wooden skewer to coat the fruit in the batter and then drop the fruit into the hot oil carefully.
  5. Only do a couple of pieces at a time.
  6. Turn the fruit over in the oil after a couple of seconds and then remove from the oil with a slotted spoon.
  7. Drain on kitchen paper.
  8. Once all the fruit has been deep fried put the sugar in a heavy based pan.
  9. 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).
  10. 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.
  11. Quickly coat each piece in the toffee sauce and then drop into the ice water. Remove immediately onto a plate.
  12. 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).
  13. Best served warm, even lovelier with ice cream.
Notes
Be very careful with the toffee sauce, it is boiling and will burn if you are stupid enough to stick your finger in it to see what it tastes like (nooo I would never do anything so silly!)
Also, be patient with the sugar, better to allow it to melt slowly than to end up with burnt toffee and a ruined pan.
Recipe by Cherished By Me at https://cherishedbyme.com/2015/02/hazelnut-toffee-banana-apple/