Turon, still in its Throne

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Turon, still in its Throne

I’ve never been to our province for almost 15 years. Way back then, our province was very rich in culture and tradition. They really give importance to traditional delicacy of our province. They are satisfied in their living in our province, they may not be rich but they are very abundant when it comes to food that is very affordable, nutritious and delicious.

After 15 years, my family and I went to our province in Cebu. On our travel, I asked my grandmother about what was her unforgettable experience in our province. She simply replied, “Our simple living there with my family. We do not have lots of money to buy expensive foods but we can get vegetables and fishes right in our place.”

I wondered on what my grandmother said. Here in Metro Manila everything you need, you have to buy it. If that’s the case I would definitely choose to stay in our province living a simple life rather than in a city with a complicated life.

After two hours of travel, I finally back to my ancestors’ hometown changes are very noticeable. Buildings, condominiums and restaurants you can see everywhere. “Is this our province?” I uttered. The last time I saw our province it was filled with trees. But it seems that our province was much modernized. I hope, traditions and cultures were well preserve and also the foods!

My uncle Vic, fetch us on airport and from here going to our house it will take almost 2 hours of travel. After 2 hours, we finally saw my grandfather and my relatives waving their hands as if we’re celebrities. They were preparing our lunch. And ooh! That smells great! I saw my uncle outside our house cooking lichen Cebu, one of the famous foods in our province and was loved by the Cebuano’s even foreigners.

“Come on here! Food is ready” my auntie Jane shouted.

There’s a lot of food in the table but I prefer to eat Caldereta, Pancit Buko and Lechon.

After eating I asked my father’s permission to roam around our house. While walking, I heard a voice shouting “Turooon! Turon kayo diyan!” I saw manang with her “bilao”and inside of it were a bunch of Turon. Hhmm seems delicous. I immediately get my wallet and buy a piece of Turon. I am wondering where Turon comes from. So I asked manang if she has a time to tell me the history of this Filipino delicacy.

“Turon came from a Philippine Spanish word túrón de banana, it was made of thinly sliced banana (saba) and a sliced of jackfruit wrapped in lumpia wrapper and sprinkled with brown sugar.

It was a popular street delicacy amongst Filipinos, a typical merienda that every person in the Philippines loves to eat. This was usually sold with banana cue, camote cue and maruya.”

She asked me If I want to have her recipe, I nod as a sign of yes. So he gave me the ingredients and the procedure.

For the ingredients:

6 pieces of sliced saba

Sliced of jackfruit (optional)

½ cup of brown sugar

Lumpia wrapper

Cooking oil

Egg white

For the procedure:

1.      Cut banana in a half, and cut each half into two pices.

2.      Place the cut bananas on top of lumpia wrapper (it depends on your own of how many sliced bananas will you put in a wrapper)

3.      Put the sliced langka (jackfruit)

4.      Slightly wrap it with lumpia wrapper and sealed it with water or egg white.

5.      Deep fry in a medium heated oil and sprinkle it with brown sugar until it caramelized and stick to your Turon.

6.      Remove the Turon in a pan until it becomes golden brown and serve.

I thanked manang for the information she has given me and buy 20 pieces of her turon for my family and relatives. Way back home , I decided to make my own version of Turon instead of banana and jackfruit I put a sliced leche flan and cheese  and wrapped it with lumpia wrapper and deep fry. I invited my family and relatives to taste my own version and manang’s version of turon and it seems they both like the two different versions of it.

Turon will still reign in its throne even there’ll be a lot of different versions.