Sweets & snacks
Banana chips
Coconut-oil fried nendran chips, salted or jaggery-coated.
About
Kerala banana chips are sliced nendran plantain fried in coconut oil, sold salted or as sharkara varatti with jaggery. They are a sadya crunch, a train-journey snack, and a packaged souvenir of the state.
Course
Snack
Region
Statewide
Typically with
Sadya, tea, travel
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