Thai cuisine is the one I love after Indian cuisine. May be it is because of the use of coconut milk in Thai cooking which remind me about Kerala dishes. However, just like Indian dishes only a few Thai dishes are available in the restaurant outside Thailand like red curry, yellow curry green curry, mango sticky rice similar to saag paneer( spinach with cottage cheese), baingan ka bhartha(Spicy mashed eggplant), mutter paneer( Green peas with cottage cheese), Aloo gobi( potato cauliflower curry) etc at Indian restaurants. These dishes which are available at most restaurants makes an impact on the person who is not familiar with the various cuisine that these are important dishes and all the people in that country are eating these dishes every day. In contrary there are lots of beautiful dishes in each country. No country is dominated by any few dishes. There are of vast majority of dishes with its own regional difference and taste.
I was watching my favorite cookery show on You Tube and the cook was making Thai vegetable pancake, after watching the show I thought it is an okay dish but not that great. But then my eyes got an attention on the side bar of You Tube screen where there was a link for Roti Gulay: Thai fried banana pancake, a Thai street food. I was curious and ended up watching the clip. I immediately fell in love with this dish. I love street food, as I feel it is the tastiest food after homemade dishes. I showed this clip to my hubby who is my food critic and taste tester, and he told me try it. I asked him, how can these guys can make it perfectly every time, the answer from my hubby, he is doing the same thing 7 days a week, so he become master by repeatedly making it. Okay I have to leave that story there.
From the clip the dough looks similar to our partha dough and they are not spreading the dough with a roller but by beating on the well oiled surface to spread the dough which results into thin film. The thin film of dough is fried using a very flat skillet with a little bit of oil and stuffed with banana and wrapped like a purse. It is finally served with honey/ condensed milk/ nutella/ chocolate/ coconut/ sugar or whatever spread you want. It is actually a sugar rush. I love plantain and parotta so I decided to give it a try. I used plantains and mascarpone cheese as filling and all purpose flour, salt and teaspoon of sugar as outer covering. I didn’t add any extra add-ons and it still tastes great. Give it a try and you are sure to enjoy the treat that you can only get in the streets of Thailand. Try with different fruits and your favorite chocolate syrup etc. This dish won’t disappoint you any time. I don’t know how the authentic the recipe is, but this my version of the famous treat. You can add an egg for making the dough, I skipped that part. Here is my take on the recipe.
One year ago: Ethakka Upeari/Plantain chips
Print recipe from here
What you need
All purpose flour: 1 cup + 1 teaspoon
Salt:¼ teaspoon
Baking soda:⅛ teaspoon
Sugar:1 teaspoon ( If you want sweetness increase the sugar amount)
Oil: 3 tablespoon ( I used canola oil)
Plantain: 1 and ¼ no ( I used very ripe one)
Mascarpone cheese: 6 teaspoon
Water: ½ cup
How I made
In small bowl sift together, all purpose flour, salt, sugar and baking soda and gradually add water to form smooth dough. And add 1 tablespoon of oil to top of dough and roll the dough so that every sides of the dough gets coated with oil. Set aside for about 2 hours.
After two hours peel the skin and chop the plantains into thin rounds and set aside.
Heat a skillet or flat griddle in low heat.
Take a small ball of dough and dip in 1 tablespoon of oil and spread thin as much as possible using a roller.
When you are ready with thin sheet of dough, add 1 teaspoon of oil in hot griddle/ skillet and place the dough in skillet then add chopped plantain and mascarpone cheese in the middle. Wrap horizontally one side first, then opposite side. Then vertically one end, then opposite to that end and make a purse covering the filling. Flip and fry for another 30 seconds. It took about 1 minute to finish cooking.
Continue making the wrap until you finish the entire dough.
Then for serving first make incision horizontally and make vertical incision on each purse/wrap. If you wish you can add chocolate syrup/ condense milk or powdered sugar and serve.
Enjoy!
Preparation time: 2 hours for resting the dough +10 minutes
Yield: 6 no
Verdict: Yummy
Will you make it again: Yes I will
This delicious dish is going to
Hearth and Soul hop: 26 hosted by Butterpoweredbike
Veggie fruit a month: Banana hosted by Aipi originally started by Priya
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Pari Cash says
Hi Dear,
your pancakes are making me drooling. You can submit it to my FIRST EVENT AND GIVEAWAY-SHOW ME YOUR DESSERT
Nisha S. says
I'm so happy to see you trying something different from the regular thai curries & pad thai & all that stuff!
I don't know how 'thai' this is because i have mostly seen nepali-bangladeshi people with these stalls (although the guy in video is a Thai).
Yes, it's an extremely soft & malleable dough from all-purpose flour, and I think you achieved that. He used oil to spread the roti & added chunks of butter to shallow-fry.
Some other options of fillings instead of banana & jelly (he put those in the video): egg yolk, meat, chocolate like you mentioned, and mashed chana masala-kinda thing with fried crispy onion strips (for vegetarians)...you can get all these for like 10-18 Baht (less than 50 cents!!!), hehe, trust me 🙂
Really I'm so happy to see this post & the video.
I've been following your blog since recently, but today this one tempted me to comment 🙂
Krithi's Kitchen says
Thanks for a great recipe
Heather says
These look absolutely delicious.
Christy says
Swathi - I am so impressed that you made up the dish from watching the youtube video - it does look like an amazing sugar rush!! Yum! Thanks for sharing it with the Hearth and Soul Hop!
Dimah says
Lovely clicks, looks so yummy!!
Aparna S Mallya says
Thnx fr the suggestion.
Banana pancakes look delicious!
Ellie (Almost Bourdain) says
This is my favourite snack!! I like to top it with a scope of vanilla ice cream.
Vandana Rajesh says
Nice clicks...roti and banana new combo for me..looks absolutely delicious.
Satya says
Love the pictures and recipe too
Reeni says
These look so very delicious Swathi! You did such an excellent job recreating it without a recipe!
Jen says
ouu never tried these before - at first I thought it was cheese but when I read on - its bananas! YUmms. thanks for sharingg!!
have a lovely day!
jen @ http://www.passion4food.ca
Preethi Rajeev says
this is what u call heaven, yumm and thanks for the step by step instructions
Ananda Rajashekar says
oh i have had this once...looks yum loving it 🙂
Vittle me this... says
very instructional! thanks!
Sushma Mallya says
looks yummy...
~Lexibule~ says
Je suis sous le charme:))xxx
Madhura Manoj says
Awesome looks yummy n nice clicks!!
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G.Pavani says
great click n looks yummy..
sanjeeta kk says
Wow! Would love to try it soon. Banana in roti sounds delicious.
Saraswathi Iyer says
Very delicious.
honeybeecooksjackfruit says
Looks really yummy! I can almost taste it.
In PF Chang(its a chinese restaurant) I had tried banana spring rolls... they were surprisingly good. Yours is a healthier version and love the addition of mascarpone!
Chow and Chatter says
wow these are cool, and nice clip
kothiyavunu.com says
Looks tempting and sounds brilliant..i shud try it some time.
Pushpa says
Superb Swathi,looks delicious.
Peggy says
This looks great! A perfect street food!
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal says
wow, that sounds super delicious. Please do send it to Veggie/Fruit A month event of Aipi
http://usmasala.blogspot.com/2010/12/event-announcement-veggiefruit-month.html
Torviewtoronto says
looks delicious love this parata roti
cheese and plantain inside yummy
Soumya says
beautiful and delicious banana roti
Faith says
This looks so delicious, Swathi! I would love it as breakfast or dessert!
Panchpakwan says
Wow looks so yummy and delicious..
Gulmohar says
Wish I could eat from your last pic ;-)looks o yumm
HGourmet Foodie says
I would love to have this for breakfast!! Delicious Thai banana pan cakes!!!
Priya says
Omg, am just drooling here, beautiful banana roti..
Kitchen Boffin says
tempting pancakes..looks soo delicious..
Viki's Kitchen says
Banana pancake looks awesome. Street foods in any country tastes better and that's the only way to get the real flavor of that place. Wonderful recipe and nice pictures dear.
Rachana says
Wow! I enjoyed watching the video, am amazed by that man's speed. Incredible!!!
You have done a wonderful job, dear Swathi. Thai banana roti looks delicious. The last click is beautiful and inviting 🙂
savitha ramesh says
Wonderful dish and I amd drooling here
divya says
Very tempting and wonderful looking new..
Ameya says
The thai pancakes look chewy and scrumptious!! Great job, Swathi!
Shanavi says
drooling here..
Kairali sisters says
Am drooling here Swathi....Looks yummilicious...
aipi says
Wow..that looks luscious! Beautiful pics..
US Masala
Miriam says
Oh my! That looks and sounds fantastic!! Thanks for sharing the recipe :). Miriam@Meatless Meals For Meat Eaters
Sanyukta Gour(Bayes) says
looks yum,delicious n amazing....lovley color...inviting me to have some...
Priya Sreeram says
awesome!-- bookmarked !!
alison says
looks so tempting this fruit-roti!
saritha says
wow! swathi u made a wonderful thai banana roti, mouthwatering....
sinfullyspicy says
I also like Thai cuisine a lot.Not for the coconut milk, but coz I find the ingredients really fresh.We smtimes stuff coconut powder also along with bananas inside this wrap..yours looks soo tasty.
Nisa Homey says
The last click is awesome...tempting...will try this.