Banana and curry!

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Just wondering if anyone has sliced banana and peanuts on a curry? My wonderful grandmother would always serve her homemade curry with little bowls of peanuts and banana on the table for sprinkling on top. I’d forgotten all about it until my sister reminded me, but I’ve never seen anyone else serve it in this way.

It was a thing in the 70s.

No, but I have had pizza and curry. Haha 😂

I love banana in curry! I haven't seen it sprinkled on top though. We would have fried plantain as a side to curry though. I wonder if it's a take on that?

My late dad used to do this. He used to make a very mild curry, I think really the British raj version from India and we would have bowls of desiccated coconut and raisins and peanuts.

Had it once on an incorrect takeaway order and nearly cried/ vomited

Memories of the 60s here. my mum always used to serve these!
Bowl of diced apple too

My father, who spent time in India and Singapore, would have sliced banana and dessicated coconut on curries! He was white British - I don't know if it was how food had been served to foreigners when he was in those countries, in the 40s and 50s.

Aargh desiccated sorry!

It used to be the norm to put apples and raisins in curry. During the cooking process, not sprinkled on top.

Yes! Growing up whenever mum made curry she also put chopped banana on the table. I've carried on the habit

We always had a wooden serving bowl with 3 sections, in the middle of the table with a curry. Banana, desiccated coconut and peanuts filled the sections with a separate bowl of raisins. If we didn't have banana then the raisins were allowed to join the wooden bowl party.

Those curries were my favourite childhood meal.

We used to have it with curries when I was a child living in Sri Lanka back in the 1970s

Yes! My Mum and Dad always do!

Our best local curry takeaway does a curry with banana in. I don't like them but DH said it's nice. I do like mango/pineapple in curry though.

Yes, it was the hight of sophistication in the 50s and 60s to have bowls of sliced bananas, desiccated coconut, flaked almonds, raisins, to serve with a curry.

As a pp mentions it dates back to the days of the Raj and the British Army in India.

At that period you could also get a packet mix (similar to the scone mix we have now) to make chapatis, popular in our house as Grandfather had been in the army.

Brilliant! My mum always served it with sliced banana, raisins and desiccated coconut. Never seen it done elsewhere and everyone I've mentioned it to has never come across it. We did eat a lot of 70's food in our house... in the 90's

Yes my lovely mum used to this - one of my favourite dinners growing up.

She would dish up the curry and rice and then put bowls in the middle of the table with sultanas, dessicated coconut and sliced bananas.

I can still remember how it tastes

The curries at school had raisins in it. Never come across a curry like it thinking back on it

I have never had this but as I'm having curry tomorrow I'll slice up the bananas ready

My DGM and DGF spent years and years predominantly in Malaysia, Singapore and India. She came home making curry and it was considered very exotic (trendy London, 1960s). She served a sliced banana or sliced hard boiled egg every time. When the first curry house opened near where we lived (Ealing) she was at the door every week. Now almost 90 she still loves food like this while she moans like hell that her posh sheltered housing ‘serves nothing but bland nursery food which requires no chewing’ !! I bring her over for a poky meal whenever I can

Grew up in the eighties and my Mum always served curry with sliced bananas on the side.

It sounds revolting , but my DM (now long dead) always ordered curry with banana in it, long after the curry house took it off the menu. It's very 1970s Britain.

My grandad used to have sliced banana on the side of curry. I still do it sometimes.

My mum INSISTS on doing this. She also puts sultanas in her chilli con carne (which, strangely, works quite well).

Another one whose parents do this - they are in their 80s.

I always thought that Caribbean curries had fruit in them (disclaimer - I know absolutely nothing about Caribbean cuisine)