Eating In

with Chas


Unnakkai

Many Keralan deserts are based on bananas and include coconut, both of which are fresh tasty and plentiful. Try and use fresh coconut and grate it yourself. Desiccated coconut might work if you soaked it in coconut milk to give it moisture. Steam some ripe bananas in their skins, peel and mash to a pulp. The stuffing I saw was made of grated coconut and jaggery,
which is a raw sugar. You can be as creative as you like with whatever stuffings you fancy. Chocolate? Other nuts? Lay some of the pulped banana out and spoon some stuffing onto it. Form into sausage shaped fritters about three inches long by an inch. Sauté gently in oil or butter, turning regularly until brown and crisp on the outside.



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