A Kerala style snacks made of bananas Pazham pori, ethakka appam, banana fritters, whatever it is called holds a special place in the cuisine of Kerala. It’s a quintessential Malayali snack and you get to buy it in every restaurant, roadside snack cart, train, hostel canteen, college cafe, etc! For making the perfect Pazham Pori, you need very ripe bananas (more on the banana used for pazham pori below) as this could really make or break the taste of your pazham pori.