Madagascar

MADAGASCAR: Koba Ravina 

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INGREDIENTS:

5 bananas (ripe)
1½ cup glutinous rice flour
½ cup brown sugar
1 vanilla bean
½ cup peanuts , coarsely ground
Banana leaves

DIRECTIONS:

Mash bananas. Mix with rice flour and sugar.
Cut the vanilla bean in two, lengthwise. Split the pod in two and scrape the inside of each half pod with the blade of a knife to remove the seeds.

Add collected vanilla and mix.

Place 3 tablespoons of the batter in the center of a banana leaf.

Sprinkle with peanuts.

Fold the banana leaf along the length of a rectangle and tie with raffia.

Steam for 20 minutes.