Fried Banana

Introduction

         The delicious deep-fried sliced bananas are made from properly matured cultivated bananas.It is sliced in suitable 4-5 pieces for each banana. The sliced bananas are dipped with rice flour , sliced coconut ,sugar,salt ,limestone and roastly sesame then putting that into the hot oil.wait and see ,until they turn to golden yellowish colour then get they off the oil and you can eat it after that.If you eat that , you can feel how sweet and delicious they are. Moreover, the curious thing is the crisping at outside of bananas but softing at inside of them. So if you selected the more proper matured sized pieces of bananas , you will get the more delicious deep-fried slice bananas too.

Personal profile

         Mrs. Surapi Winison, 58, was born on April 20 1955, is the owner of Mea-jum-long fried banana franchise. She finished Elementary school. She lives with her husband and two sons in Nakhonsawan Province. Her husband is a farmer and both of her sons study at Naresuan university.

Background of Work

         Before selling fried banana, Mrs. Surapi worked as a farmer and a merchant with her husband in Nakhonsawan Province. She did not have much income from her jobs support her sons, so she decided to make a kind of Thai dessert for selling instead. However, the business did not go well. She tried to figure out the way to make more money and one day she found a fried banana shop called Mea-jum-long which sold fried banana in Nakhonsawan Province. She contacted the owner of that business and apply for a franchise. She opened a fried banana shop in Barontrilokanad Military Camp for 3 months, but it did not go very well. Finally, she moved to Phitsanulok and open a store at Naresuan university.

Description of work

         Mea-jum-long fried banana shop opens from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. or until the products are sold out. Mrs.Surapi purchased a franchise of Mea-jum-long fried banana for 5,000 baht for the recipe. She also sells fried quail egg for more income. The shop is located in front of A&G barbeque buffet restaurant. She earns 300-400 baht per day after deducting the costs of ingredient she has the income her husband’s income are enough to support the family and the children’s education.

Experiences as a Food Seller

         She does not have foreigner customers so she does not face language barrier in her business.

Other Choices

         Mrs. Surapi would be a janitor at a primary school near her house, if she did not sell fried banana for a living. But she finds selling banana a more profitable one.

Thailand dessert recipes: Banana Fried

Ingredient

-   12 banana.
-   1 cup flour.

-   Wheat flour 1/4 cup.

-   Salt 1/2 tsp.

-   1 teaspoon baking powder.

-   Sesame rice (amount according to taste).

-   Coconut rice 1/2 cup.

-   Palm sugar 1/2 cup.

-   Cream 1/2 cup.

-   Lime water 1/4 cup.

-   3-5 pandan leaves.

-   Oil for frying.

Cooking Method

         1. To peel bananas and slice the banana lengthwise .The banana should be divided at least three pieces.
         2. To mix rice flour, wheat flour, salt, baking powder, sugar, sesame, coconut, coconut milk and limewater in a bowl and then to stir until some of sugar is dissolved.
         3. To pour some of oil in a pan .When some of oil is boiled, to fry Pandanus leaves.
         4. To prepare sliced bananas and then to dip the sliced bananas in the flour.
         5. To fry the sliced bananas .When the sliced bananas are cooked, to scoop out for draining the oil.
         6. To serve fried bananas as snack or sweet.