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Turon

Name: Turon
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Philippines
Ingredients: 4 Cooking Bananas (or regular bananas); 8 leaves Spring roll wrappers; 50g Jackfruit (canned, optional); 4 tbsp Coarse Sugar (or dark brown sugar); To taste Oil for frying

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Banana and jackfruit wrapped in spring roll wrappers and caramelized — a favorite Filipino street sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Turon is a street sweet loved all over the Philippines: slices of sweet saba banana and jackfruit are wrapped in spring roll wrappers, coated in coarse brown sugar, and fried until crisp with a crackly caramel shell. It's an after-school snack for kids and a staple at roadside stands — a dessert woven into everyday Filipino life.

🌆 Where it's eaten: After school, children are drawn to a roadside stand by the sound of frying and the sweet smell to buy turon.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Cooking Bananas (or regular bananas) 4
Spring roll wrappers 8 leaves
Jackfruit (canned, optional) 50g
Coarse Sugar (or dark brown sugar) 4 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Halve the bananas lengthwise.
Sprinkle coarse sugar on a spring roll wrapper and place the banana and jackfruit on it.
Roll up tightly from the edge and seal with water.
Coat the outside of the roll with more coarse sugar.
Fry in 170°C oil until golden and the sugar caramelizes.

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