Banana stem curry: A unique food recipe of northeast India

Hi guys , this is my first article as i am new in this platform. And today i am going to write about one of my favourite food recipe called Lafu eromba(mashed banana stem curry) .which is one of the most popular meal of a state called Manipur in Northeast india.

People all over the world eats banana as part of their fruit product.But have you ever wonder that banana stem can also be eaten as curry for our dinner or lunch.Here i am going to share you a very unique way of how people are eating banana stem as a curry mainly in India.There are lots of benefit we could get from banana.It is rich in vitamin c and it's stem is also a rich source of fiber.

Where it's mostly eaten?

According to my study and knowledge banana stem curry is eaten mostly in northeastern india and southern part of  india as part of their daily essential food habit.If there is any place where banana stem is eaten as part of daiky food habit.please share with us.Here i am going to demostrate how banana stem  is cooked as curry mainly in northeast state of india called Manipur , where they call banana plant as LAFU .

According to their habit or tongue taste different place have different ways and method of cooking banana stem as i had experinced.So at Manipur banana stem is cook mainly as paste or chutney by mashing it , where they call it LAFU EROMBA at their local language.so here are the steps and ingredient required.

Ingredients required:

• 2-3 banana stem

• 2 cup of soaked pea

• 3-4 piece of dry fermented fish where they called it ngari

• 3-4 baby potato

• 4-5 chilli

• Salt

• Coriander 

• Chopped onion

Steps of cooking:

• First cut the banana stem into round pieces. About 1 cm thick each. Thicker the cut stems longer time it takes to cook

• Put the cut stems, soaked peas,baby potatoes, chilli, dry fish all together inside a pressure cooker But you have to put dry fish at a seperate cup or vessel so that it will not get dissolve with the water.

• Put some water inside the pressure cooker according to requirement.close the lid of the pressure cooker.

• Boiled it for about 5-8 minutes.

• Then take out the boiled ingredients  in a  container and cool it down.

• Seperate the chilli and dry fish and make a paste by adding some salt on it.

• Then mashed the boiled banana stem, potato and peas either with hand or utensil. And also add the paste of cilli and dry fish

• Put some water to make the brot of the curry.

• Garnished the mashed curry with chopped onion and corainder leaves or other aromatic garnishing leaves in order get the lovely aroma of banana curry.

• The leaves used for garnishing at the picture is called tuningkhok (tu-ning-khok) at local language. this leave is the most matching garnishing ingredient for banana stem curry. Which give a different unique smell and flavour to the curry.

• Finally the banana stem curry or lafu eromba is ready to served with rice.

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