Jihvā for Ingredients (JFI) is an online monthly food event, celebrating the Ingredients and what they can do for our Jihvā. This is the brainchild of Indira of Mahanandi. This month JFI celebrates the goodness of Bananas at Mandira’s Ahaar.
These are some of my favourite ways (other than just eating plain bananas) to use Ripe Bananas; very simple recipes yet very close to my heart and palette.
These Banana recipes are being sent to Mandira. Thank you Mandira for hosting this month’s JFI-Banana.
Kelichi Shikran: The name brings back some warm comforting memories. Shikran Poli was my favourite combination in school days and reminds me very much of my grandmother (I don’t know why but it does!) Mashed ripe bananas (my mom says slicing doesn’t give the same taste to shikran-it has to be mashed with the hands!), sugar and milk all mixed together to the desired proportion that’s Shikran. The taste is as good as it is simple to make it! I also add a few dry fruits like cashews, raisins and dates.If a person like me (not at all fond of sweets) can relish this, anyone can!
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Kelichi Shikran recipe
Serving: For 1 bowl/1 person
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- 1 banana large ripe
- ~ xbd cup milk (room temperature)
- xbd tsp sugar
- nuts dry fruits Choice of and (I have used Cashew, Raisins and dates)
- banana x86Mash the with your hand in the bowl you want to serve the Shikran
- . / milk sugar x86Add , and the nutsdry fruits mix nicely
- . Roti x86Serve with
- bananas yoghurt green chillies salt sugar Kelichi Koshimbir (Banana Raita): Ok if you are worse than me; as far as sweet tooth is concerned then this is another homely, comforting dish for you. Ripe are sliced and mixed with , , , and some cumene powder to make this delicious Kelichi (Banana) koshimbir (Raita).
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- Kelichi Koshimbir recipe
- 1 1 Serving: For bowl/person
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- 1 banana large ripe
- ~ xbd cup curd yoghurt / whisked
- 1 chilly green slit and chopped
- pinch sugar of A
- to taste Salt
- xbc tsp cumene powder
- x86Slice the banana
- x86Add the other ingredients and mix well.
- x86Serve with Roti
- Kelicha Sheera: Sheera is a traditional Maharshtrian sweet, usually served as u2018Prasadu2019 for Satyanarayan puja.The Sheera that is made for u2018Prasadu2019 usually has slices of banana in it and most people love this version of the Sheera most; also that it is made for God makes it much more divine! I have already blogged about Mango sheera here. The recipe is the same.Just replace the mango pulp with slices of banana to make this divine Kelicha Sheera.
- Dancing Banana and friends
those emoticons are sooooooooooo cute
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Hey wise use of bananas in so many dishes!!!
U must be loving it!!!
great dishes
@ I am loving it! 🙂 Thanks Padmaja
Lovely banana recipes!!!! They all looks absolutely delicious!!!
@ Thank you
lovely dishes and lovely looking emotions too..
@ Thank you Srivalli
Nice dishe but i love the dancing bananas, i have a big smile now. Thanks for making me smile :-))
@ They made me smile too HC 🙂
Great entries, very unique!:)
@ Thanks Asha, you are unique too! 🙂
i love love love the koshimbir idea with bananas and lots of green chillies. will try this. i love yogurt in any form.
@ Bee me too love yoghurt in any form! and the koshimbir is my no1 favourite of that lot!
Lovely entries….those smileys look great..
@ Thanks Keerti
Wow! You have got all the classics! Great entries for the event 🙂
@ Yes classics and all time favourite;haven’t found a Maharashtrian yet not fond of these! 🙂
the dancing banana and friends are tooooo good,loved them,great work, lovely entries too
@ Thanks Bindiya
I like the Shikran. Dancing bananas look great.
@ Yes Rina Shikran is comfort food for me too!
those nanas are waay too cute
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lovely dishes 🙂 love all of them!
@ Thanks Roopa
Those dancing bananas and the train look real cute
@ Thanks bhags. i just loved them! 🙂
Nice banana recipes. My mom uses black pepper powder instead of green chillies for the koshimbir.
@ That’s a good idea too Nikita. Some people also use mustard powder- so lots of variations to the recipe. Thanks anyway for the tip.
Lovely banana recipes! Thanks for sharing.
Great dishes Madhuli …. I’ve been seeing the banana raita everywhere, yet to try it… and 😀 at those dancing bananas
I love the dancing bananas 🙂 and the entry looks great! — Mandira
Wow so many banana recipes in one stop!!Great…!!I like your blog…Its looking neat ….and special!!
@ Thank you Rajeswari for the kind words and thank you for dropping a line-its always encouraging
Kelichi Shikran sounds lovely! (:
cook it with some oats and you get a healthy balanced meal.