What is kanom gluay?

Kanom means snack, and gluay means bananas. Kanom gluay is a traditional dessert that is very common in Thailand. They’re made mainly from mashed bananas, rice flour, coconut milk, and coconut meat, and then steamed, often in banana leaf cups, as seen in the picture above. It’s considered a rustic and homey dessert, as it uses ingredients that are local and widely available to every class of Thais, and is very simple to make.

Though I am calling them “banana cake,” it’s not the fluffy cake in the western sense. The texture of kanom gluay is fudgy and tender, almost like a really fudgy brownie. A better way to describe it is “banana coconut fudge.”

When you buy these in Thailand, cheaper versions use a lot of flour to keep the cost low, so the texture can be chewier and denser, but my recipe uses a LOT of bananas, with just enough flour to hold it together, for maximum banana flavour and softer texture.

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