Ripe banana doughnuts

Ingredients

  • 2 lbs ripe bananas
  • 4 tbsp sugar
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 pint vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Peel and mash the bananas. Add flour and mix together. Add sugar and mix well.

Heat oil and, when hot, drop the mixture by the spoonful into the oil, turning frequently.
Cook until golden brown on both sides.

by Magdalena S. Taitano

Editor’s note: This recipe is from Lepblon Fina’tinas Para Guam: Guam Cookbook, 1985. Reprinted with permission from Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo, Y Inetnon Famalao’an* (Women’s Association).

* Y Inetnon Famalao’an was a women’s organization composed of cabinet wives and women executives in the government of Guam.