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Chek Chien

Bananas coated in a coconut-milk, egg and sesame batter and deep-fried.

Chek Chien — illustrative food image

About Chek Chien

Cooking is Community reproduces this chek chien recipe from Far Away and Downeast, a cookbook compiled from Maine's refugee communities in the 1980s. The Cambodian preparation coats bananas in a coconut-milk batter.

Flour, eggs, sesame seeds and salt are mixed with the coconut milk before the bananas are dipped. The coated fruit is fried until evenly browned, then drained on paper.

The fritters are served hot. Their browned batter surrounds the banana, with sesame seeds throughout the coating. This is the community cookbook's rendition of Cambodian fried bananas.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Egg, Sesame.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

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Ingredients in Chek Chien

Far Away and Downeast's Cambodian chek chien.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual25 generic flour, cereal unprovided; no forced Wheat from generic word.
  • Coconut milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual26 canned coconutmilk, full product formula unknown; not dairy Milk.
  • Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual27 eggs.
  • Sesame seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Sesame source-confirmed. Actual28 sesame seeds.
  • Bananas: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual29 bananas, no plantain or double-frying from other formula.
  • Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Cooking oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual31/33 generic frying oil, botanical identity unprovided.

Origins & food traditions

Countries

  • Cambodia
  • CambodiaCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. Chek Chien - Far Away and Downeast, reproduced by Karl Schatz, Cooking is Community