Turon

In my family when it is someone's birthday, we all bring a dish to cook and share. For my dad's birthday I was asked to make a Filipino fried banana spring roll dessert, called Turon. The ingredients I have used for this recipe is very Westernized and while the quantity seems a lot, believe me when I say, these will get gobbled up so quickly and your guests will be asking for more. I hope one day I will be lucky enough to taste this yummy dessert, freshly made in the Philippines.

Makes 40 mini Turon rolls

Ingredients

6 bananas

1 can jackfruit in syrup

2 cup brown sugar

1 pack of 50 springs roll wrapper
small bowl of water

oil for frying

honey for drizzling

1. Cut up the banana into small pieces and put into a bowl. The way I cut it, you end up getting 8 small pieces.

2. Dice up your jackfruit and put into a bowl. Put the brown sugar into a bowl also and lay out your table ready for rolling. 

3. For each banana piece, coat it with brown sugar. Along with a few pieces of diced jackfruit, place them on to one corner of the spring roll wrapper.

4. Fold to create the turon and seal it using water. Below is a step-by-step how. 

5. By the end of step 4 you should have a nice big pile of turon for frying. So heat up a generous amount of oil, enough to be able to coat the turon when in the pan. When the oil is hot, put some turon in the pan for frying. The oil should sizzle as the turon goes in.

6. Brown the turon on both sides by turning it over during the frying stage. When browned, place on a paper towel to absorb the excess oil and continue cooking the rest of the turon.

7. Place the cooked turon onto a plate, drizzle with honey and serve. 

Notes and Variations
Now I know the quantity and amount of turon being made here is a lot, but you will find that either everyone is going to polish it all off (which is often the case) or the turon that you don't fry, you can put in an air-tight container and store it in the freezer for three months ready for another time you have a craving for this delicious dessert. If you opt to freeze it, all you have to do is warm up the oil in a pan and fry away as if you had just freshly made it.