There are only few Ingredients and these are;
- Heart of Banana or Banana blossom
- Coconut milk
- Garlic
- Onion
- Cooking oil
- Ginger
- Chilli Pepper
- Salt
By Preparing, first we must chopped the banana blossom into small pieces and boiled it for a minutes until the blossom will become soft and easy to take apart.
Sliced the garlic and onions into tiny pieces so that it will easily cook. This are very important to all dishes undergoes sauted method.
Ginger can also give a good smell of the food we cook and it helps to removed any bad smell of the food. Just add the ginger in the boiled banana blossom.
This our coconut milk and it helps to turn into slightly sticky and good flavor to the dish we cook.
Heat the cooking oil in the fried pan and after that add the garlic and onions, sauted it until it comes the good smell and turn into golden color.
Next add the banana blossom and ginger and mix it very well to balance the taste.
Next, add the coconut milk or gata in Local term. Mix it very well again. After mixing, covered it for 20 minutes and after that, add the right amount of salt and if you have chilli, it is good to add also. Wait until it will cook.
There was a small portion and or methods on how to cook the dish and I am very happy to know this taught by my Father. Banana blossom Ginataan is very popular and it is also a good kind of business where some food vendors sells this kind of dish particularly near at school, offices and any parts of the Public and crowded place. Not only for Ginataan recipé but also it is perfect for frying up mixing with seasonings and wheat flour.
What Nutrients Does it Contains?
According to the book I read about banana blossoms nutritional benifits, it contains zinc, phosporus and potassium. Banana blossoms are also very expensive when it sells to the market place and it costs at about 45 Pesos each. We are very lucky to have lots of banana blossoms here and we can make different kinds of dishes out of it.
For Desert we have Corn cakes:
This kind of snack is also very popular in fact there are lots of food vendors also sell corn cakes. The steps on how to cook is very simple. All we have to do is to gathered the following engredients like Grinded corn, Coconut milk, brown sugar, food colors, baking pan, yeast and baking soda.
The Engredients must be mixed together and gently add some right amount of water and mixed for a few minutes. By cooking this, it takes 45 minutes before this corn cakes will finally cooked. I also learned how to cooked this from my Mother and gladly I also made it perfectly. Thank you for stopping by to my post, have a nice day to all of us.