Es Pisang Ijo

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!