Banana Pudding/Jello?
February 21, 2010 12:25 PM Subscribe
Does anyone have a recipe for this Thai banana pudding dessert?
I had a roommate from Thailand a few years ago and she used to make this dessert out of bananas. The texture was somewhere between pudding and jello and it had coconut on top. I have no idea what the other ingrediants were. Google searchs turn up only fried banana recipes. I am looking for both a recipe and the name of this dish. Thanks!
I had a roommate from Thailand a few years ago and she used to make this dessert out of bananas. The texture was somewhere between pudding and jello and it had coconut on top. I have no idea what the other ingrediants were. Google searchs turn up only fried banana recipes. I am looking for both a recipe and the name of this dish. Thanks!
Best answer: I found another Thai banana dessert that fits your description, called khanom kluay.
posted by wondermouse at 12:48 PM on February 21, 2010 [5 favorites]
posted by wondermouse at 12:48 PM on February 21, 2010 [5 favorites]
Response by poster: Yes! It was khanom kluay. Thanks.
posted by entropyiswinning at 12:58 PM on February 21, 2010
posted by entropyiswinning at 12:58 PM on February 21, 2010
Just a note: "young coconut" is very different from the shredded (mature) coconut that goes on top. It is the meat of an immature coconut that's so soft and gelatinous, it can be scraped out with a spoon. Assuming you don't have a coconut tree, you can get young coconut meat in jars, packed in syrup. It is translucent white and has been scraped out in strips, so it looks sorta like gummy worms. A good Asian market should have it, especially if they carry Thai foods.
If you're ever lucky enough to visit the tropics, look for guys with machetes selling young coconuts for drinking. They'll lop off the top and give you a straw, then when you've finished the juice, you hand them the empty coconut. With a few deft whacks they'll open it up some more and you can scrape the soft meat out with a plastic spoon or bit of coconut shell. Heavenly! Makes mature coconut seem like cardboard. And watching them swing a machete at the coconut they're holding in their other hand adds a bit of William Tell-ish excitement to the whole thing, if you can bear to watch.
posted by Quietgal at 1:43 PM on February 21, 2010 [3 favorites]
If you're ever lucky enough to visit the tropics, look for guys with machetes selling young coconuts for drinking. They'll lop off the top and give you a straw, then when you've finished the juice, you hand them the empty coconut. With a few deft whacks they'll open it up some more and you can scrape the soft meat out with a plastic spoon or bit of coconut shell. Heavenly! Makes mature coconut seem like cardboard. And watching them swing a machete at the coconut they're holding in their other hand adds a bit of William Tell-ish excitement to the whole thing, if you can bear to watch.
posted by Quietgal at 1:43 PM on February 21, 2010 [3 favorites]
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This sounds a lot like Vietnamese che chuoi, the ingredients of which are: tapioca/saga, banana, coconut milk, sugar. Just to help give you some keywords for finding this perhaps.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 12:34 PM on February 21, 2010