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Koba

Name: Koba
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Madagascar
Ingredients: 200g Peanuts; 3 (very ripe) Bananas; 200g Rice flour; 120g Brown sugar; A pinch Vanilla Extract; To taste Banana Leaves (or foil)

Dessert

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Peanuts, banana, and rice flour wrapped in banana leaves and steamed for hours — a traditional Malagasy sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Koba is a traditional Malagasy sweet: ground peanuts, mashed banana, rice flour, and sugar are wrapped into a log in banana leaves and steamed for hours. Vendors slice thin rounds off big logs by the roadside. It's dense and sweet, with a toasty peanut flavor.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On an Antananarivo street, a vendor cuts thin slices from a big log of koba, leaf and all, wraps them in small papers, and hands them over.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Peanuts 200g
Bananas 3 (very ripe)
Rice flour 200g
Brown sugar 120g
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Banana Leaves (or foil) To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Toast and skin the peanuts and grind with half the brown sugar.
Mash the bananas and mix with the rice flour, remaining brown sugar, and vanilla.
Spread the rice-flour dough on a banana leaf, place the peanut paste in the center, and roll into a log, enclosing it in the dough.
Tie tightly with string.
Steam for 2 hours.
Cool, then slice into rounds.

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