GWJamaica Cook Book

Ingredients

2 cups Green Banana (grated)
1 cup Sweet Potatoes (grated)
1 cup Coconut Milk
1 tsp. Baking Powder
1 cup Brown Sugar
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 cup Flour
1 tsp. Vanilla Flavoring
4 tbsp. Raisins
2 tbsp. Cooking Oil
4” x 6” Aluminum Foil Sheets or banana plant leaves
Twine or Cord.

Preparation

This recipe calls for grated green bananas and sweet potatoes, remove the skins from the vegetables before you grate them.

In a large mixing bowl add the grated bananas, sweet potatoes, flour, baking powder, salt, and cooking oil. Use a wooden spoon to mix all the ingredients. Warm the coconut milk on a low fire. Add the brown sugar and vanilla to the coconut milk and mix until sugar dissolve. Next, add the sweetened coconut milk to the rest of the ingredients and mix everything together until the batter is formed. In the meantime bring water to boil in a saucepan. Using the wooden spoon, add four to five spoonfuls of the batter to an aluminum sheet or banana plant leave. Fold the aluminum sheet together to retain the batter inside, and then tie with the twine, cut the excess twine. This takes a little practice, so if you don’t get it at first, try again. Repeat this process for the rest of the batter and then add all the blue drawers to the pot of boiling water. Allow it to cook for about 45 minutes.

When the blue drawers are ready remove them from the boiling water, let them cool to room temperature. Remove them from the aluminum sheets and serve.

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