French Polynesian Banana Poe

Servings: 6

Ingredients:

6 cooking bananas

1 banana leaf

200 g manioc starch

1 soupspoon oil

Castor sugar

1 vanilla been

200 ml coconut milk

Cooking Instructions:

Prepare all ingredients. Wash and cook the bananas with skin in water for 15 min. check the cooking. Prepare the banana leaf in passing it rapidly over a flame to soften it, brush with oil. Drip the cooked bananas, peel then mash. Check the quantity � for 2 volumes banana, add 1 volume starch and ½ volume sugar. The quantity of the sugar can be adjusted according to taste and ripeness of the bananas. Mix well and add the vanilla (inside of the been only). Spread the �poe� in the middle of the banana leaf. Fold carefully and put on a slightly oiled baking sheet or in a mould. Bake in the oven at 160o to 175o (Pos. 5-6) for about 45 min. Careful, the banana leaf will smell burnt however the �poe� might not be cooked yet. Check the cooking. Unfold the banana leaf carefully. Put the �poe� in a plate, cut into large dices and pour ¾ of the coconut milk. Serve with the remaining quarter of the coconut milk.

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