We harvested the most amazing saba (plantain) bananas from the gardens just outside our Cebu office. They were partially green and partially ripe on the tree… in other words, as close to ideal as they can get. So an hour or two later, we decided to have the just ripening sabas as part of a rather sweet but delicious afternoon merienda. I like my bananaque to be a bit firm still, not overly ripe and soft and mushy. These were perfectly done, with lots of stickly brown sugar caramel coating the bananas.
Each bowl got one bananaque, a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a topping of homemade mangosteen jam and brandy sauce. Yum. :)
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i love saba bananas just fried, with no sugar added as well turon with sugar and cheese. :D
an jealous!
Yeah….am jealous, too. I could not get real saba here just plaintain which is far so different from saba.
What timing. I grabbed a bottle of Kablon Mangosteen jam and finally convinced my 6-year old that peanut butter and jam sandwiches are great!
Will need to wait for the cough to go away to try this with coffee ice cream. My mom likes to fry very ripe halved saba in a little bit of oil sans sugar. It’s nice too. I’ve seen them rolled in sugar and grilled as well.
MM, that’s a sinfully delicious merienda!
Saraaaaaap! Miss the bananaque and would like to have a taste of the mangosteen jam.I could eat two or three of those bananas!
MM,forgot I have saba bananas ripening under the kitchen sink.Thanks for the post.Bananacue here I come,lol.
Absolutely mouthwatering photo! Wish I could just go down the street and buy bananacue.
I could eat 2 or 3 portions of this merienda, MM – yummy gid!!
Yummy MM! I’m drooling now as I looked at the pic. I missed this type of mirienda here in Australia. Its hard to get saba here.
I have the saba variety banana tree in my yard, but because of our natural weather, it does not give a fully matured fruit, kasi bananas needs at least 10 months mild hot weather bago mahinog.. eh wala nun dito, even though our winter is mild, nag-pi-freeze naman annually. I love banana que, and with you adding ice cream.. wow! Yeah the plantain cooking bananas that is ordinary here are not the same with our local saba. Matamis na parang gamot.
Nilaga, prito, with or without sugar, nilupak or just plain ripe and uncooked…I love for breakfast or snack.
There’s comfort food and comfort dessert. I think bananaque is the epitome of Pinoy comfort dessert.
it’s to die for,MM!
sarraaap naman nyan, MM!!
Any job openings in your office? No monetary payment required…just heavenly “snacks” like the above…drool…
super diabetic food
and whoever said “it’s only bananaque” will have to suffer in silence… this is bananaque! ummm… MM, where’s mine? am not diabetic, nor on a diet? =)
Saba in Singapore is ‘blah’ compared to Pinoy saba. But beggars cannot be choosers, pwede na pagtiyagaan. Although I find myself using the Pisang Rajah kind more, okay for bananas foster.
Sosyal na banana que.
I think I should go to KM hypermart to buy some saba which is by the way, comes from Dole Phils.
I’m 10 again and my mom is in the kitchen making this lovely merienda. Thanks MM for bringing back lovely childhood memories!
lucky officemates!
I never thought of having banana cue a la mode. Thanks for the idea MM! :D
Dude how do you make the caramel coating the banana? Plse show me!! The pic looks absolutely delish and i’d like to make this dessert tomorrow. :)
Sarap nyan ha- pang high-end dining ang dating…
Seeing the photo, I loved it already.
Then I read “mangosteen” which I love. I am officially filled with desire.
Can I join that office merienda!?!?!
I love bananas in general. But for saba, I like it very ripe, almost mushy, to be fried in oil without sugar. But I can’t turn down a super sugar coated bananan cue as well. :D I tried a turon in a restaurant once, it was banana with an ube filling :) Yummy too.
Now I’m hungry.
So, why aren’t you in the restaurant business yet??? Do tell how to caramelize the banana.
My little boys will love this! But how do I prepare the brandy sauce? Help please!
saba in cebuano is kardaba.
no, no, elian, saba is much smaller and sweeter than cardaba.
MM really is a man of great fortitude… i don’t know how you can stop at just one banana… or serving! :)
Mmmm Mr MM your dessert looks uberlicious.Might I also suggest making matamis na saging na saba with sago and to this add manticado ice cream
panache, that sounds terrific… tonceq, I have to admit, when its just plain old banana que, I eat 4 bananas! :) mudra, I use my homemade mangosteen jam, and reheat it in a pan with a little water and as much brandy as you want until it has the consistency of a sauce… Susan, I have a post on the banana cue from several years back. Ultimately, it is lots of vegetable oil, and lots of muscovado sugar applied to the bananas a couple of times while cooking… Jacinta, stick the banana in the fat for a few seconds, then roll it in muscovado or dark sugar and re-dip in hot fat and repeat to put as much sugar as you like… k. ramos, I have to admit, this can get rather “sticky” what with the caramelized sugar and the coldness of the ice cream… also, if you don’t like sweet in a big way, this dessert is WAY sweet… :)
Yummy!!!! kakainggit, aw!! nakakagutom…. at this time of the night…. I want banana que with ice cream and that jam!!
that would be my dessert for tonight. thanks for the idea!
Based on the photos, I thought this was going to be a post about a dessert purchased from a fancy restaurant! It looks YUMMY!
This creation would captivate top dollar here in the US.
I like the color of the Banana Q!
ang sarap naman, made me hungry for banana que this time of day (12:54 am)
btw, im from the Philippines, our ip routes to the United States and back that’s why :)
Now I’m craving for banana-q!
dammit! i just want to grab that right now and shove it in my salivating mouth! grrrr.
wow! one of the best snack.. love the combination… lots of brown sugar on the saba & creamy ice cream on the side.. perferct! :)
miss philippines talaga when it comes to foodtrip like this!!!
wow………….. delicious…. :) mangosteen jam?? .. ano kaya ang lasa. :)) maasim na matamis na sweet… yum yum :D
banana is the one of my favorite, so i love this recipe desert..