How to Make Crispy and Not Oily Banana Chips
Making banana chips which is crispy while being eaten is not an easy thing to be practiced, moreover making banana chips which is crispy and not oily when we hold it.
There are few
steps that we have to concern when we want to make banana chips especially
Kepok banana chips with crispy and not oily taste, namely:
I. Selecting Quality Banana,
II. Peeling Banana,
III. Frying Banana,
IV. Drying Banana chips, and
V. Packing Banana chips.
I. Selecting Quality Banana.
To yield
crispy, clean shape, yellow and sweet originally banana chips, we need to pay attention when
we are buying the banana. Good and Quality Banana Kepok has shape as shown in
the picture above. Here are things that we need to take concern while selecting
good and quality banana:
- Try to find banana that has thick shape, and has bold lines on its skin. It indicates that the banana has been ready to be produced as banana chips.
- Ensure the banana is not matured or half matured. If we fry the matured or half matured banana, it will yield an uninteresting appearance of banana chips due to its shape becomes brown after fried.
- Try to find banana that has yellow color on its inside (not the color of the skin of the banana), because there’s banana with white color on its inside skin. If we fry the white banana, we will see the color of the chips is brown. And it will take time longer. Unless we want to use color agent to make the chips yellow.
II. Peeling Banana.
Peeling banana is one of process that may be very troublesome. Why? Because we will get the sap that is very sticky and difficult to be wiped from our hands and fingers. To make easy when peeling banana, there are some steps that we can take, namely:
Peeling banana is one of process that may be very troublesome. Why? Because we will get the sap that is very sticky and difficult to be wiped from our hands and fingers. To make easy when peeling banana, there are some steps that we can take, namely:
- After buying banana, do not peel directly. Let it kept for about a night. It’s intended to reduce the sap on banana and to make easy when peeling the skin of banana.
- Prepare water +/- two basins or small buckets.
- Cut the both end sides of banana. Then put into the basin or bucket that filled water. It’s intended to reduce the sap and stickiness when peeling banana.
- Then peel bananas that have been put into the water using knife.
- After peeled, put the peeled bananas into the other basin or bucket that filled water. This is to make peeled bananas keep white and not brown.
IV. Drying Banana Chips
After frying process finished, we go to the next process. It is drying the fried banana chips to wipe the oil. But remember, here we don’t use tissue or paper to wipe the oil from the chips. There are two ways to wipe the oil from banana chips after fried, modern way and conventional way. On this occasion, we’ll explain the conventional way that is cheap but effective. The steps are as below:
After frying process finished, we go to the next process. It is drying the fried banana chips to wipe the oil. But remember, here we don’t use tissue or paper to wipe the oil from the chips. There are two ways to wipe the oil from banana chips after fried, modern way and conventional way. On this occasion, we’ll explain the conventional way that is cheap but effective. The steps are as below:
- Prepare a wide board or a place that has been prepared specially before for drying place.
- Put anti oil paper or Kentucky paper on the wide board or place that prepared for drying the chips.
- Then dry them until the oil on them dried/gone.
V. Packing Banana Chips.
The last process from making banana chips is packing. A neat and nice packing will effect to the selling value. Some steps that we need to concern and do as follows:
The last process from making banana chips is packing. A neat and nice packing will effect to the selling value. Some steps that we need to concern and do as follows:
- Ensure the chips have been dried from oil after fried.
- Use plastic hand glove to put the chips into the packing plastic for chips.
- Then seal it using electric sealer machine.
So it is the
article of how we make the banana chips especially banana kepok that is crispy
and not oily which can be practiced directly by us. And we do hope what we have
written above, can be useful for all of the readers wherever they are.
written by: azzainfoodnsnack @batam20190129.

