Turon

Banana and jackfruit rolled and fried in sugar that caramelises onto the wrapper.

Vegan.

Ingredients

• 8 saba bananas, or 4 firm plantains, halved lengthways
• 100 g sweetened jackfruit, in strips
• 16 lumpia wrappers
• 200 g brown sugar
• 600 ml oil, for frying, which is poured off

Method

1. USE SABA BANANAS, or plantain. A dessert banana collapses into paste in the oil — saba stay firm and are starchy rather than sweet, which is why the sugar is on the outside.
2. ROLL EACH BANANA HALF IN BROWN SUGAR before wrapping, so it is coated.
3. Lay a wrapper, put the sugared banana and a strip of jackfruit on it, fold the sides in and roll tightly. Seal with a smear of water.
4. Heat the oil to 175C and SCATTER A HANDFUL OF BROWN SUGAR INTO THE OIL ITSELF just before the rolls go in.
5. That sugar in the oil is the dish. It melts and catches onto the wrapper as the turon fries, giving a brittle caramel shell that sugar on the inside alone never produces.
6. Fry 3 minutes, turning, until the wrapper is blistered and the caramel has set amber. Watch it — sugar in oil goes from amber to black quickly.
7. Lift onto a rack, NOT paper, or the caramel sticks and tears off. Eat within minutes. Pour the oil off once cooled.

Our own recipe. This one was written for this site rather than taken from anywhere, so there is no source to point you at. The quantities and the order of the steps are choices, not the only way to do it.

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