Snack · 30 min · filipino

Caramelized Banana Turon

This is the kind of Filipino snack you’ll make on repeat — saba bananas and jackfruit, 30 minutes, big payoff. The macros do the talking: 3g protein, 58g carbs, and 4g fat in every 280-calorie serving. Leftovers keep well, so it doubles as next-day lunch without any extra work.

✓ USDA-verified nutrition data

Ingredients

• 8 Saba bananas
• 1 cup Jackfruit
• 3/4 cup Brown sugar
• 8 Lumpia wrappers
• 3 cups Cooking oil

Steps

1. Halve the saba bananas lengthwise and roll each piece in brown sugar until well coated.
2. Lay a banana half and a few jackfruit strips on each wrapper; roll tight, sealing with water.
3. Fry in 350°F oil, 3 to 4 minutes per side, until deep golden.
4. In the last minute, sprinkle a spoonful of sugar into the oil around each roll — it caramelizes on contact into a glassy shell.
5. Drain on a rack. The best turon shatters, then gives way to molten banana and perfumed jackfruit. Eat warm, ideally from a street cart, but home works too.

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