Pepes is the way of cooking using banana leaves. The dish is coated with spices and wrapped in banana leaf. Great ingredients for pepes are chicken, fish, and tofu. The dish can be steamed, grilled, or cooked in an oven. The aroma of cooked banana leaves will linger on the dish as an exotic accent.

I am using chicken and sweet basil in this dish. The aromatic banana leaves and the rather sharp tasted sweet basil leaves allow you to devour the dish using not only your sense of taste, but also your sense of smell.