Food Trip: Maruya
Since the Philippines is a tropical country, banana trees grow abundantly in every corner of the country. What else would Filipinos do with the abundance of these fruits? Create wonderful dishes with them of course. As you see, we Filipinos love cooking and eating. We cook almost everything including fruits.) Maruya One of the dishes made from bananas is the traditional dish called maruya . Also called Saba banana fritters after the variety of bananas used in the dish -the saba. A maruya is simply described as a fried dish of sliced saba banana mixed and coated with an egg-and-flour batter. My grandma preparing the saba So what do we need to make a maruya? I interviewed local maruya makers in the province of Albay to find out (if they have secret ingredients) Here's what I found out: Maruya Ingredients: ripe saba bananas egg(s) all-purpose flour vegetable cooking oil salt milk cocoa leaf sugar Upon learning the "secret herbs and spices" of the locals