Banana Pancakes: a sweet treat and ready while you wait (video)
You can eat a banana pancake everywhere in Thailand, and especially in tourist places. A sweet treat that is prepared for you right in front of you. For just 50 baht you can indulge in this calorie blast.
The famous Thai Banana pancake, which is also often called Roti by Thais, is a wafer-thin pastry filled with sliced bananas and then fried until golden brown. The thin pancake is not round but square. This is neatly folded and sweetened. The pancake is served with your choice of honey, sweet condensed milk, sugar or chocolate sauce. It tastes best if you eat it immediately, but taking it with you and eating it later is a little less tasty.
Although the dish is called “pancake,” it is more similar to the South Asian roti, a type of flatbread, and is a beautiful fusion of Asian and Western flavors. The base of this dish is a very thin, almost puff pastry-like dough that is spread to an almost translucent thickness on a hot grill. This dough is then filled with banana slices, and sometimes egg is also added for extra richness and texture. The whole thing is folded into a square and baked until it has a crispy golden outside and a soft, sweet center.
A unique aspect of the Thai Banana Pancake is the finish. Once the roti is cooked, it is often doused with condensed milk and sometimes sprinkled with sugar, which adds a rich sweetness. Chocolate sauce, honey or even Nutella are also popular toppings among locals and tourists alike. This snack is usually sold on the street, often from small stalls or mobile carts. It is not only a treat for the taste buds, but also a pleasure to watch how it is made. The skill and speed with which street vendors make the roti is an attraction in itself.
Besides bananas, Thai Banana Pancakes can also be filled with other ingredients such as pineapple, mango, or even savory fillings such as chicken or curry. The dish's versatility and simplicity make it a popular choice for a quick snack or dessert at any time of the day.
You can see how they are made in the video below. Ready in a few minutes and enjoy…
Also one of my favorite street foods, banana roti. Roti is traditionally Arabic / Muslim in origin, you also have a savory (with minced meat filling) version of it, martabak. Also eaten a lot in Indonesia.
They are certainly tasty when I'm in changmai I often take 1. I wonder if you can make them at home in the Netherlands I still can't figure out what they use as dough. You see the well-known balls of dough that they just like pizza Knock out the dough and bake it on the special plate. I think it would be great to do it at home. Who from thaiblog has a recipe, I recommend it.
taste is not bad, but the dough is white flour and it is baked with margarine. That pot of margarine is there on that cart in about 30 gr C + and it does not melt, it does melt on the baking tray which is 100 gr C +, but once in your body at a temperature of about 36 degrees Celsius, think carefully about what that mess is doing.
http://jessevandervelde.com/margarine-slecht-en-lijkt-het-op-plastic/
I was not familiar with this version.
I regularly eat the crepe made from batter and topped with banana.
The batter is very similar to pancake batter, is poured onto a hot plate and spread very thinly in a circle with a pancake spatula. The preparation method is also the same.
The outer 5 to 10 cm becomes brown and crispy, the center light brown and remains supple. The crepe is folded into a point and placed in a cardboard paper container. Looks like a bag of fries, but much tastier!
Here's a video of baking this version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V3iXJBWEnFA
Just like with pancakes, you can top it with anything you like.
Of course. To eat your fingers so delicious….
The roti is very popular in the region where I live. A roti with banana costs only 20 or 25 baht here and there are many other variants, for example with Milo, with (fried) egg, with chicken or beef (มะตะบ๊ะ: martabak) or just with sugar and condensed milk (ธรรมดา: thamadaa). Delicious as a snack but anything but healthy.
They are also tasty cold, I regularly buy one in the evening, put it in the fridge and in the morning a nice breakfast, but without milk or chocolate sauce or the like
During my stay in Changmai I eat 1 almost daily. They are delicious. Indeed you can get different kinds. I usually choose banana egg and the sweet milk.
In principle, something that is prepared at a high temperature is always safe, just like the street food that is prepared in the wok. The roti is prepared in oil at a high temperature and later a little gee (clarified butter) is added to get a nice color. I eat it regularly and have never had any problems with it. So this "mess" does nothing at all in my stomach.
Just tap on google: recipe Thai roti and you will find everything, including this: https://toerisme-thailand.nl/recept-thaise-bananenpannenkoekjes/ or this http://aworldoffood.nl/recept-zoete-aziatische-roti-pannenkoekjes/
In the Isaan I found several stalls where they baked pieces of banana cut in half in a kind of dough with something that looks like sesame seeds. Pretty crispy outside. Don't know what it's called but was at the same stalls where you could buy a green round dough thing
กล้วยทอด – kluay tod – fried banana.
2 Recipes as an example:
https://thaiest.com/thai-food/recipes/thai-fried-bananas-kluay-tod
https://tante1940reentje.com/2017/10/02/kluay-tod-thaise-gebakken-banaan/
I think we mean roti, a Hindustani pancake that comes from India.
Available in numerous variations, Delicious!
Puy roti lady.
She became famous through YouTube and now has more than 200.000 subscribers. She also gives us a glimpse into her private life and she can also sing quite well. She is also a very beautiful girl and she always works in nice outfits.
You can even find her on Google Maps. Just search for Puy roti lady. She works in Bangkok on Sala Daeng road on the corner with Silom road at BTS Sala Daeng.
Menno,
I have the impression that you are not really interested in those pancakes but rather in the oliebollen. But oliebollen are also tasty, especially when they are nice and hot (oops...).
I have no idea why you think I'm more interested in oliebollen. I like that too, but I prefer it with currants.
I came across her by chance on YouTube and I think what she makes is very tasty. Visiting Bangkok for a few days in January and I definitely plan to visit her and taste it.
Haha editors,
... one week a topic about obesity among the Thai population and then advertising about banana pancakes (nice and greasy and an abundance of sugar). Anyway, at least this way we see what Thailand has to offer us.