How to Cook With Raw Bananas: Recipes from All Across the Country

Highlights
👉Bananas are one of the easily and widely available fruits in the country
👉Raw bananas are easy to cook with
👉Raw bananas can easily substitute potatoes in your cooking
"Bananas are considered auspicious in South India. The entire plant is used in some way or the other; we use the stem, the flower, the fruit and eat on the leaf. Banana delicacies are always there during festivities or celebrations. You have the traditional and popular banana chips, Kerala also has jaggery coated raw banana snack that is served during Vishu and Onam. Raw banana Poriyal is like a stir fry curry that is eaten in most parts of South India. Then you have Podimas where raw bananas are used to arrive at a mashed, savoury preparation. Raw bananas are also dipped in besan batter to fry sumptuous bhajjis,"

North Indian cooking brims with a variety of delicacies that are prepared using raw bananas. These are just like any other popular starchy tuber like potatoes or sweet potatoes, therefore these vegetables can easily be replaced by raw bananas without bringing about much of a difference in the taste or texture of the final delicacy.