Pisang molen
ay_link October 25th, 2007
Pisang molen is a traditional Indonesian pastry filled with banana and cheese.
“Pisang” (read: pee-sāng) means “banana” in Indonesian, and “molen” is Dutch for mill (or roll), so literally, the English name for Pisang Molen is, Banana Roll? Hahaha.. sounds funny.
Anyways.
Pisang molen, they’re so easy to make. Trust me. I enjoy baking and cooking, but only if they’re easy to make and doesn’t take too much time to do it. LOL *yes, me, lazy bum when it comes to baking LOL… I rather cook, somehow* so, okay, onto the recipe now..
Ingredients:
- Frozen pastries (bought at JONS’ , and I think the brand is Jerky Pastry, but you can always use any ready-to-use frozen pastries, or make your own)
- Bananas (8-10 ripe ones, so that they’re already sweet)
- Cheese (Kraft Processed Cheese in loaves/Kraft Singles for sandwiches would work too)
Now the cheese is a bit tricky because technically, it’d be better to use cheese that cannot be melt during the baking process.
What cheese won’t melt under 350 F ? Well, there’s this Kraft processed cheese, which I can only buy when I’m in Jakarta (lol), so if you can’t get those kind of cheese, just use any cheese you like =)
So, you cut the banana into 3-4 and cut them in half to sandwich the cheese in the middle.
Roll the pastries to cover the filling and later on, brush egg yolk on top before putting them in the oven.
Bake for 35-40 mins until they’re cooked and ready. :)
- Desserts , Foods , Indonesian
- Comments(2)
OMG!!!i lived in bandung for damn 6 years i had enough of pisang molen!!
Hi there, thanks for this. I went to Bandung last week (first ever trip to Indonesia) and fell in love with this pastry. Duh me, didn’t realise it was so easy to make. Well, at least you made it sound easy. So I’ll need pastry, bananas and cheese?
OK, gotta try this out! Thanks again.
Cheers,
Ka Yen