PAZHAM VARUTHATHU About 10 days backI went to slightly distant supermarket where Kerala items are available. Onlytwo packets of chips were there with information slip- prepared in 100% coconut oil.One was with sliced length wise. I had actually gone to purchase cut chips, asliced chip cut to 2.
However I purchasedboth. On finishing the breadthwise finished, I opened the other pack today. Itwas not crisp and slightly sweet. Ilooked at the cover- It was written in Malayalam “Pazham varuthathu” with English translation-Ripen banana fried”. I used to get ripenbanana fried in brown colour cut breadth wise from Trivandrum. Length wisesliced is found sweeter, yellowish and folded as two or three depending on thelength. Since it is ripen 95%, the folding might have occurred. A doubt occurred inme in that case why pazhampori is not folding. I myself tried to answer- sliceis at least three times thicker for pazhampori. In Trivandrum ripenbanana fried obtaining by 2001. It was prepared in only one shop, near thePassport shop. For fried ripen banana chips we had to tell at least 2 days inadvance. I looked at the cover.It is prepared in Cochin, not in Chennai. Many shops in Chennai prepare bananachips daily; one near Nanganallur Anjaneya temple is very famous. So far there are noshops preparing sarkarapuratti in Chennai. Supermarkets also I have not seenpacked sarkarapuratti. However one shop in T nagar rarely we gotsarkarapuratti. Some caterers serve sarkarapuratti in feasts. It is not surewhether they prepare or get from Kerala is not clear. While writing aboutNampoothiries I recollected about their liking for banana chips cut to 2 afterslicing horizontally. They call it Upperi. Sarkarapuratti ismost liked by Nampoothiries. During feasts 2 or three times sarkapuratti isserved or in large quantities. Writer- R. Gopala krishnan 14-8-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/331597387.436798.1628951649351%40mail.yahoo.com.
