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Guinean Banana Beignets

Name: Guinean Banana Beignets
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Guinea
Ingredients: 3 Bananas; 150g All-purpose flour; 2 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Baking Powder; A pinch Nutmeg; 50ml Milk; To taste Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Mashed ripe banana mixed into batter and fried into balls — a Guinean snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bananas grow well in Guinea, and beignets (fritters) made with overripe bananas are cooked at home and at stalls alike. Mashed banana is mixed with flour and sugar and dropped by the spoonful into oil. Crisp outside, chewy and sweet inside.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Conakry roadside, round dollops of batter puff up in a big pot of oil and sweet-smelling beignets are piled in a basket.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Bananas 3
All-purpose flour 150g
Sugar 2 tbsp
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Nutmeg A pinch
Milk 50ml
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Put the bananas in a bowl and mash smooth with a fork.
Add the sugar, milk, and nutmeg and mix.
Fold in the flour and baking powder.
Scoop rounded spoonfuls and drop into 170°C oil.
Fry, rolling them, until golden.

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