{"id":976,"date":"2007-10-01T19:52:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T02:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2007\/10\/01\/banana-biscuits-mangalore-buns\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T17:14:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T00:14:36","slug":"banana-biscuits-mangalore-buns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2007\/10\/01\/banana-biscuits-mangalore-buns\/","title":{"rendered":"Banana Biscuits (Mangalore Buns)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These habit-forming sweet banana biscuits are easy to like. I surely can say that judging from the speed at which they get gobbled up every time I make them.  <\/p>\n<p>The recipe is based on traditional <a href=\"http:\/\/keeptrying.wordpress.com\/2006\/04\/13\/bunsdeep-fried-banana-flour-bread\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mangalore buns<\/a>. Honeyed fragrance and creamy sweetness of banana could be felt and tasted, but it would not over-power the taste buds. A good and fun snack.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/banana\/bananaimagecopyrighted2.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Banana Biscuit Dough Rolled and Cut to Squares<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recipe:<\/strong><br \/>\n<small>(for 20 to 25 small biscuits)<\/small><\/p>\n<p>1 cup maida (or all-purpose flour)<br \/>\n1 ripe banana<br \/>\n2 tablespoons sugar<br \/>\n1 tablespoon melted ghee<br \/>\n&frac14; teaspoon cardamom powder<br \/>\nPeanut oil to deep-fry<\/p>\n<p>Blend or mash banana and sugar to smooth consistency. Add to flour.<br \/>\nStir in cardamom and ghee. Mix to prepare tight dough. Rest for an hour.<br \/>\nDivide the dough to lemon sized rounds and roll out each round to a thin circle.<br \/>\nCut to squares like shown in the image and deep-fry to gold.<\/p>\n<p>Regular chapati style pressing yields soft and chewy biscuits. For crispy and crunchy biscuits, press out the dough to thin.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to take it up a notch, dip the fried biscuits in sugar syrup like we do in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jalebi\" target=\"_blank\">jilebi<\/a> or roll them in sugar like <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?hl=en&#038;q=beignets&#038;um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;sa=N&#038;tab=wi\" target=\"_blank\">beignets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/banana\/bananaimagecopyrighted4.jpg\" class=\"noborder\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<font face=georgia>Banana Biscuits ~ for <a href=\"http:\/\/ahaar.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/jfibanana.html\" target=\"_blank\">JFI:Bananas<\/a>, Hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/ahaar.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mandira of Ahaar<\/a><\/font><\/center><!--b3998249822f7a61951c961294168b5a--><!--591370fb07937ce7e0c0a78060440cf6--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These habit-forming sweet banana biscuits are easy to like. I surely can say that judging from the speed at which they get gobbled up every time I make them. The recipe is based on traditional Mangalore buns. Honeyed fragrance and creamy sweetness of banana could be felt and tasted, but it would not over-power the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,83,145,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-purpose-flour","category-bananas","category-indian-sweets-101","category-jihva-for-ingredients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}