If we go around South of India, we pretty
much see the same variety of food with some variations in the type of
rice and oil used. Otherwise a thaali will have rice, sambar, the
vegetable curry and fry, the chutnies, pickles, Rasam, the payasam
deserts etc. Maybe at the far end of Andhhra Pradesh they have this dry
fruit delicacies and other non-vegetarian varieties that came with the
Mughals.
At our Fort Cochin, though, generally, the
food remain the same with some additions in the spices and its quality
there is a definite influence of the European settlement in certain
things. But in certain things only as the colonial life was pretty much
restricted to their area of settlement in the early years.
Banana Fry is one that transcends the
barrier. The nendran variety of Banana, dipped in flour and fried in
Coconut oil, with a dash of cinnamon if you like it. One has to eat it
to believe it.
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