Pengat Pisang at Berjaya Times Square Hotel

Malay cuisine is nothing less than vibrant! The ingredients
they choose are vibrant and extremely flavourful. Though their cuisine mostly
consists of spicy food they have their fair share of sweet and creamy desserts
to please your palate. Among the many delightful desserts in Malay food
culture, one that stands out from the rest is the Pengat Pisang that is because
it is so easy to prepare and yet it is so delicious. You can savour this dish
if you get an opportunity to stay at a resort property in the tropics the likes
of Berjaya Times Square Hotel or you can make it yourself by
following the below recipe.
Ingredients
 ·        Ripe Banana                                                                 3 cut into 15 pieces
·        Coconut milk                                                                 250 ml
·        Palm Sugar                                                                 100gm
·        Corn Starch                                                                  50gm
·        Water                                                                         300ml
·        Sweet potato                                                                500gm
·        (Preboiled
in mild sugar syrup with pandan leaf)
·        A pinch of salt to taste
Method of Preparation
1.     Cook the coconut milk and palm sugar over slow heat until the sugar dissolves.
2.     Add in a pinch of salt and thicken
the liquid with corn starch.
3.     Lastly, add In the peeled and sliced
banana and the sweet potato and mix it till they get coated in the sugar syrup- coconut
milk liquid.
4.     Continue cooking for 5 more minutes
and serve.