Bananas grow just about everywhere here in Sri Lanka to the point that you’d swear they grow wild. Oh, wait, they probably do. :p
Lots of people have banana plants growing in their yards. Go for a five minute walk in our neighborhood, and you’ll pass dozens to hundreds of banana plants, depending on how fast you walk. 
Next door to us is an empty lot where cows generally graze, tied to a banana plant or coconut palm or, sometimes, not tied to anything at all but freely roam. There are a half dozen or so banana plants on that lot, so it’s pretty safe to say that there are generally bananas in various degrees of growing and ripening over there. Here’s a picture of some of those bananas.
These bananas are still on the plant, not ready for picking yet.
These bananas are much shorter than any bananas I ever saw in Canada, which were usually 5" or longer.
On the right are kolikuttu bananas, which are considered to be the best bananas. They’re sweet and flavourful.
I asked Fahim about the bananas on the left. He wasn’t sure what kind they were, but he said they looked to him like a hybrid. They’re not ripe yet, so we haven’t tasted them.
Tags: banana, banana plant, tropics
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They definetly look like delicious bananas even though not ripe. Do you cook them too?
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You know, back in Canada, I liked bananas. Didn’t love ‘em, only liked ‘em. But these kolikuttu bananas? We get a bunch like in the above picture and it’s gone in a day or two. More like five or six hours if Fahim’s parents are here, too.
I haven’t cooked these bananas, no, although I do, in general, like frying them in butter and drizzling them in chocolate. I bet these would be great that way.
We also get plantain which I do cook. That usually ends up curried, though.
Try making banana fritters with over ripe “ambul kesel”
Its heavenly when its served hot with mango sauce, brown sugar and cinnamon powder
Frozen bananas in chocolate Yum! I slice them and then i make little chocolate coins
If i make them like before (whole) there is to much taste of banana and to less of chocolate.
Coins are perfect though !
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Hello there in the place where I use to live they make use of banana as a treat try making caramelize banana make use of brown sugar in frying this fruit.