A festive offering, banana payasam is a creamy South Indian kheer prepared with ripe bananas, cardamom, coconut milk, and jaggery.
Kerala's banana halwa is a rich, glossy delicacy made by slowly boiling bananas with sugar and ghee until they caramelize.
Often given as prasad, this hearty semolina pudding has a hint of cardamom and is flavored with bananas and ghee.
Ripe bananas, rice flour, and jaggery are combined to make these sweet, spongy fritters, which are then deep-fried till golden.
Indian pancakes soaked in sugar syrup and flavored with cardamom, fennel, and mashed bananas.