Es Pisang Ijo
Ice Green Banana or as known as es pisang ijo, is the most
common dessert in Makassar, Indonesia. Makassar is one of the indonesia’s
provincial capital of South Sulawesi, where it create a lot of tasty and delicious
dessert. Es pisang ijo is some kind of
fresh dessert that mainly contains fresh and sweet bananas. Not all bananas
could be used, only severals type of bananas. The most common banana is Pisang
Raja, that brings out a sticky texture and some kind of sweet taste. Es pisang
ijo could be the most suitable dessert to accompany us when the weather are
scorching or the heat are so stinging. That is why in the summer days, es
pisang ijo is so widely purchased. Nowdays, many store that sells es pisang
ijo, and some of the indonesian restaurant put es pisang ijo to be their
dessert menu.
Making es pisang ijo
isn’t as hard as it seems, but it need a lot of practice and the ingredients
are easy. You will need pisang raja, flavored
cyrups (any flavor you like) , crushed ice, rice flour, cane sugar, pandan
leaves, suji leaves, sago, flour, coconut milk and salt. here’s how you do it,
first cook the banana, next blend the pandan leaves and suji leaves with a
processor or a blender add some water and strain the mixture, set it aside. Mix
together the rice flour, cane sugar, sago, flour, coconut milk and the mixture
of pandan leaves and suji leaves and knead it until it’s well-blended. Wrap the
banana with the dough and steam it again until the dough turn to dark green
colored. Finally, put the wrapped banana into the crushed ice and pour the
flavored cyrups, Done!
