SM’s new Choc Nut turon rolls two beloved Filipino snacks into one flaky package. You get a crispy, golden turon as big as your face, loaded with chunky bananas and nutty milk chocolate. You want to get this at its prime: freshly cooked, while the Choc Nut filling is warm and extra gooey. For just P25, it’s an affordable treat after doing your groceries.
You might think: Why go all the way to SM when you can make Choc Nut turon yourself?
We say: Why make Choc Nut turon yourself when you can go to SM? You don’t want to exhaust yourself by making turon from scratch. It’s harder than it looks! And who wants to deep-fry anything? But we are a recipe site, so you get one anyway. Spoiler alert: Just go to SM.
Ingredients
- bananas
- Choc Nut
- lumpia wrappers
- sugar
Prepare the bananas: You need saba bananas for turon. Discover that the bananas you have at home are not saba, but lakatan. Congrats, you failed the first step already!
Prepare the Chocnut: Open the Choc Nut bag and unwrap enough chocolate for your turon, around 24 pieces. Get tired after 8 pieces. Start dissociating around the 14th piece. You drop a Choc Nut, which falls to the floor and explodes in a powdery, chocolate mess.
Prepare the lumpia wrapper: Carefully pull a lumpia wrapper from its stack. Rip it immediately. Try again with two fingers. It ripped again? Okay.
Fold the turon: You want to keep going? Prepare the least torn lumpia wrapper on a work surface. Place a row of banana slices and Chocnut at the center. Dampen your fingertips with a bit of water and fold the lumpia like an envelope. Rip the lumpia wrapper again. Start to cry.
Repeat the folding process until you have 12 turons. Regret your decision to make turon from scratch. What did we tell you?
Get ready to fry: No thanks.
Give up: Go to SM. The Chocnut Turon is available in the branches listed below. Buy one piece for just P25. Bite into it; feel happy. Buy another. Repeat.
