How to make delicious braised eel with banana tubers

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15 Minutes Processing
25 Minutes For
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Eel is one of the foods that many people love. Not only providing many healthy nutrients, but eel can also be processed into many delicious dishes such as eel porridge, fried eel with lemongrass and chili, grilled eel with satay, …

Today, let Tnhelearning.edu.vn show you how to make delicious and flavorful braised eel with banana tubers! Let’s get started!

Ingredients for making braised eel with banana

• 500g eel
• 500g pork belly
• 1 banana (about 1-1.5kg)

• Turmeric, green onion, laksa leaves, guava leaves, lemongrass, chili, purple onion
• Seasoning: Batch, curry powder, shrimp paste, satay, white wine, cooking oil, salt

Good tip :
To choose delicious eel , choose a medium sized one with 2 distinct colors (black back, yellow belly). At the same time, avoid choosing eel with a black belly because this is usually farmed eel, the meat will be mushy and not tasty.
To buy delicious bacon , you need to choose a type with a certain elasticity, equal proportions of meat and fat .
To choose a delicious banana , you should choose a white, round tuber because this is young enough and not old. Avoid buying tubers with hard stems and lots of dark spots as they may have been dug a long time ago, are less crunchy and less fresh.

How to make braised eel with banana

Step 1Preliminary processing of eels

First, you wash the eel with warm water diluted with salt for 10-15 minutes to remove the viscosity. You can also use your hands to scrape the eels until they are no longer greasy, then rinse with water.

Then, you cut off the head of the eel and use a knife to slice it along the spine down to the tail, remove the internal organs , and then wipe it clean. When you’re done , crush the eels gently, then cut them into pieces about 1 finger long .

Preliminary processing of eels

Step 2Prepare other ingredients

You wash the pork belly and cut it into small pieces. After that, you peel turmeric (1 tuber), then puree it . When done, you cut laksa leaves (100g) and green onions (7 branches), and the guava leaves (100g) you cut the fibers .

Next, you peel off the outer 2-3 layers of the banana tuber until the young white tuber is exposed, then wash it with water, then cut it into strands .

Note : You should soak the bananas in diluted salt water for about 5 minutes so that they are white and not dark (cut to where they are soaked, then soak them in water).

Prepare the ingredients

Step 3Marinated eel

You mix well the eel, cut pork belly with crushed turmeric, thinly sliced purple onion, lemongrass, chili, 3 tablespoons batch, 1 tablespoon curry powder, 2.5 tablespoons shrimp paste, 3 tablespoons satay, 3.5 tablespoons white wine soup and 3 tablespoons cooking oil in a pot, then let marinate for about 5 minutes .

Then, add the bananas to the eel mixture, mix well and marinate for another 10 minutes for the ingredients to absorb the flavors.

Marinated eel

Step 4Braised eel

You put the marinated eel pot on the stove, close the lid and cook on medium heat for 5-7 minutes until the ingredients are cooked again. Then, you add about 500ml of water to the pot , cover and continue to braise for another 15 minutes until the broth boils. Finally, you add laksa leaves, bay leaves and green onions to add more flavor to the eel dish.

Braised eel

Finished product

The finished dish has an extremely eye-catching yellow color of turmeric. When enjoying, you will feel the soft and sweet taste and evenly absorb the spices of eel meat , banana tubers are fragrant and not acrid . In particular, this dish is very suitable with white rice, a delicious dish to catch rice for the whole family.

Braised eel with banana tuber has extremely eye-catching and delicious color

Hopefully, through the above sharing, you already know how to make delicious and flavorful braised eel with banana tubers. What are you waiting for, go to the kitchen and show off your talents right away for the family to enjoy!

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