Time to vote for your favourites in this category of The Star People’s Food Awards. From now until Aug 31, you can vote up to three of your favourite banana leaf meal eateries via Metro Online ...

Banana leaves and peels offer numerous benefits including antioxidant richness, anti-inflammatory properties, skin health promotion, digestive aid, antimicrobial qualities, and essential nutrients.

The use of banana leaves for serving and cooking dates back to early civilizations, starting in India during the ancient Indus Valley civilization. This practice later spread to other countries ...

For this, take a bowl, add fish chunks, lemon juice and salt. Keep it aside for 10 mins atleast. 2. Now, take a grinder, add coconut, coriander leaves, green chillies, garlic and cumin seeds to a fine ...

If using banana or palm leaves to create ‘dishes’, do this by dividing each leaf in half and cutting out a circle from each half using a pan lid as a guide. Bring a wide saucepan of water to ...

Machcha Patropoda is fish marinated with a generous amount of masala, wrapped in banana leaf and cooked for a few minutes till it's soft and flaky. Clean the fish and cut into small pieces. 2. Add the ...

If you have the grill fired up for this Indonesian dish of fish wrapped in banana leaf (which was developed by my ex-food stylist, Vivian Herijanto), you'd might as well also cook some skewers of ...