Gulai Daging Batang Pisang Kedah

Gulai Batang Pisang is one of signature dish at Baling

Recipe of Gulai Daging Batang Pisang

Ingredients

  • 2 banana’s stems (batang pisang), cutted into one inch pieces and throwed its thread
  • 1kg cubed meat
  • 75g curry stew powder
  • 1 cup grinded dried chillies
  • 4 cups thicked coconut milk
  • 2.5liters melted coconut milk
  • 1 cup oil
  • 3 pieces cinnamons
  • 6 pieces ‘bunga lawang’
  • 4 stalks curry leaves
  • Salt and sugar to taste

Sliced ingredients

  • 30 onions, 15 cloves of garlic and 8cm gingers

Methods of cooking

  1. Heat the oil and stir fry sliced ingredients until it shrivels.
  2. Put in the cinnamons and ‘bunga lawang’. Leave it up to the aroma.
  3. Add grinded dried chillies and mix it well.
  4. Then, add curry powder and curry leaves. Add 1 cup of coconut milk. Slow down the fire and stir fry until the oil rises.
  5. Mix the meat and put everything into the pan. Mix well and cook until the meat wilted.
  6. Then, add coconut milk, let the curry boil until the meat tendered.
  7. Put banana’s stems (batang pisang) and cook them until soft.
  8. Lastly, add thickened coconut milk,sugar and salt.
  9. After the perfect cooking, turn off the kitchen fire.

General knowledge : Batang Pisang is from one of banana trees species, ‘Pisang Hutan’.

The benefits of ‘Batang pisang’.

  • avoiding high blood pressure, heart problems, reducing constipation and balancing fluids in the body.

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own