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Banana leaf

Index Banana leaf

Banana leaves have a wide range of applications because they are large, flexible, waterproof and decorative. [1]

88 relations: Andhra Pradesh, Arecaceae, Arepa, Balinese Hinduism, Banana leaf rice, Barbacoa, Barramundi, Bell pepper, Bengali cuisine, Bibingka, Botok, Brahmic scripts, Buddhism, Buffet, Burmese script, Canang sari, Cassava, Chaff, Chả lụa, Chicharrón, Chili pepper, Cochinita pibil, Cooking banana, Coriander, Costa Rica, Culture of the Dominican Republic, Curtido, Dough, Filipino cuisine, Ganesh Chaturthi, Guanime, Hawaii, Hindu, Hyang, Ilish, India, Indonesian cuisine, Javanese script, Kalua, Karnataka, Kerala, Kue, Kuih, Lard, Lemper, Loi Krathong, Lontong, Maize, Malaysian cuisine, Mexico, ..., Nacatamal, Nagasari, Nasi lemak, Nixtamalization, Oaxaca, Odia alphabet, Olive, Onion, Otak-otak, Pasteles, Patravali, Pecel, Pepes, Potato, Puerto Rico, Puto, Rojak, Rongorongo, Ruled paper, Satay, Singaporean cuisine, Sinhalese alphabet, South Indian cuisine, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Steaming, Strelitzia, Suman (food), Taco, Tamale, Tamil Nadu, Thailand, Tomato, Tumpeng, Vaho, Vigorón, Walter de Gruyter, Winnowing. Expand index (38 more) »

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is one of the 29 states of India.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).

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Arepa

Arepa is a type of food made of ground maize dough or cooked flour prominent in the cuisine of Colombia and Venezuela.

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Balinese Hinduism

Balinese Hinduism (Agama Hindu Dharma; Agama Tirtha; Agama Air Suci; Agama Hindu Bali) is the form of monotheistic Hinduism practiced by the majority of the population of Bali.

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Banana leaf rice

Banana leaf rice is a traditional method of serving rice dishes in South Indian cuisine.

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Barbacoa

Barbacoa is a form of cooking meat that originated in the Caribbean with the Taíno people, from which the term “barbecue” derives.

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Barramundi

The barramundi (Lates calcarifer) or Asian sea bass, is a species of catadromous fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes.

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Bell pepper

The bell pepper (also known as sweet pepper, pepper or capsicum) is a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum.

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Bengali cuisine

Bengali cuisine is a culinary style originating in Bengal, a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, which is now divided between Bangladesh and the West Bengal state of India.

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Bibingka

Bibingka is a type of rice cake from the Philippines and in Christian communities in Indonesia.

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Botok

Botok (sometimes called Bobotok in its plural form or Botok-botok) is a traditional Javanese dish made from shredded coconut flesh which has been squeezed of its coconut milk, often mixed with other ingredients such as vegetables or fish, and wrapped in banana leaf and steamed.

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Brahmic scripts

The Brahmic scripts are a family of abugida or alphabet writing systems.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Buffet

A buffet (from sideboard) is a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners serve themselves.

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Burmese script

The Burmese script is the basis of the alphabets used for modern Burmese, Mon, Shan and Karen.

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Canang sari

Canang sari is one of the daily offerings made by Balinese Hindus to thank the Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa in praise and prayer.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc, yuca, mandioca and Brazilian arrowroot, is a woody shrub native to South America of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.

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Chaff

Chaff is the dry, scaly protective casings of the seeds of cereal grain, or similar fine, dry, scaly plant material such as scaly parts of flowers, or finely chopped straw.

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Chả lụa

Chả lụa or giò lụa (is the most common type of sausage in Vietnamese cuisine, made of pork and traditionally wrapped in banana leaves.

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Chicharrón

Chicharrón (Torresmo or, tsitsaron, chachalon) is a dish generally consisting of fried pork belly or fried pork rinds; chicharrón may also be made from chicken, mutton, or beef.

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Chili pepper

The chili pepper (also chile pepper, chilli pepper, or simply chilli) from Nahuatl chīlli) is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. They are widely used in many cuisines to add spiciness to dishes. The substances that give chili peppers their intensity when ingested or applied topically are capsaicin and related compounds known as capsaicinoids. Chili peppers originated in Mexico. After the Columbian Exchange, many cultivars of chili pepper spread across the world, used for both food and traditional medicine. Worldwide in 2014, 32.3 million tonnes of green chili peppers and 3.8 million tonnes of dried chili peppers were produced. China is the world's largest producer of green chillies, providing half of the global total.

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Cochinita pibil

Cochinita pibil (also puerco pibil or cochinita con achiote) is a traditional Mexican slow-roasted pork dish from the Yucatán Peninsula.

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Cooking banana

Cooking bananas are banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.

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Coriander

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum), also known as cilantro or Chinese parsley, is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica ("Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island.

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Culture of the Dominican Republic

The culture of Dominican Republic is a diverse mixture of different influences from around the world.

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Curtido

Curtido is a type of lightly fermented cabbage relish.

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Dough

Dough is a thick, malleable, sometimes elastic, paste made out of any grains, leguminous or chestnut crops.

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Filipino cuisine

Filipino cuisine (Lutuing Pilipino/Pagkaing Pilipino) is composed of the cuisines of 144 distinct ethno-linguistic groups found throughout the Philippine archipelago.

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Ganesh Chaturthi

Ganesh Chaturthi (IAST), also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi or Vinayaka Chavithi is the Hindu festival that reveres god Ganesha.

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Guanime

Guanimes are a prepared food that can be tracked back to the pre-Columbian era in Puerto Rico.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Hindu

Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.

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Hyang

A hyang (Kawi, Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese) is an unseen spiritual entity that has supernatural power in ancient Indonesian mythology.

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Ilish

Tenualosa ilisha (ilish, hilsa, hilsa herring "ইলিশ" in Bangla, or hilsa shad) is a species of fish related to the herring, in the Clupeidae family.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indonesian cuisine

Indonesian cuisine is one of the most vibrant and colourful cuisines in the world, full of intense flavour.

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Javanese script

The Javanese script, natively known as Aksara Jawa (ꦲꦏ꧀ꦱꦫꦗꦮaksarajawa) and Hanacaraka (ꦲꦤꦕꦫꦏhanacaraka), is an abugida developed by the Javanese people to write several Austronesian languages spoken in Indonesia, primarily the Javanese language and an early form of Javanese called Kawi, as well as Sanskrit, an Indo-Aryan language used as a sacred language throughout Asia.

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Kalua

Kālua is a traditional Hawaiian cooking method that utilizes an imu, a type of underground oven.

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Karnataka

Karnataka also known Kannada Nadu is a state in the south western region of India.

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Kerala

Kerala is a state in South India on the Malabar Coast.

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Kue

Kue is an Indonesian bite-sized snack or dessert food.

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Kuih

Kuih (Indonesian: kue; also called kueh in Hokkien) are bite-sized snack or dessert foods originating from Malaysia.

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Lard

Lard is pig fat in both its rendered and unrendered forms.

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Lemper

Lemper is an Indonesian savoury snack made of glutinous rice filled with seasoned shredded chicken, fish or abon (meat floss).

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Loi Krathong

Loi Krathong (ลอยกระทง) is a Siamese festival celebrated annually throughout the Kingdom of Thailand and in nearby countries with significant southwestern Tai cultures (Laos, Shan, Mon, Tanintharyi, Kelantan, Kedah and Xishuangbanna).

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Lontong

Lontong is a dish made of compressed rice cake in the form of a cylinder wrapped inside a banana leaf, commonly found in Indonesia; also to lesser extent in Malaysia and Singapore.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Malaysian cuisine

Malaysian cuisine consists of cooking traditions and practices found in Malaysia, and reflects the multiethnic makeup of its population.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Nacatamal

A nacatamal is a traditional dish found in Nicaragua and Honduras, similar to the tamal.

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Nagasari

Nagasari is a traditional steamed cake made from rice flour, coconut milk and sugar, filled with slices of banana.

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Nasi lemak

Nasi lemak is a Malay fragrant rice dish cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaf.

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Nixtamalization

Nixtamalization typically refers to a process for the preparation of maize (corn), or other grain, in which the corn is soaked and cooked in an alkaline solution, usually limewater (but sometimes wood ash lye) washed, and then hulled.

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Oaxaca

Oaxaca (from Huāxyacac), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, make up the 32 federative entities of Mexico.

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Odia alphabet

The Odia script (ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଲେଖନୀ ଶୈଳୀ), also known as the Odia script, is a Brahmic script used to write the Odia language.

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Olive

The olive, known by the botanical name Olea europaea, meaning "European olive", is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal to the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia as far east as China, as well as the Canary Islands and Réunion.

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Onion

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Otak-otak

Otak-otak is a grilled fish cake made of ground fish meat mixed with tapioca starch and spices.

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Pasteles

Pasteles (singular pastel) are a traditional dish in several Latin American countries.

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Patravali

Patravali or Pattal or Vistaraku or Vistar or Khali is an Indian eating plate or trencher made with broad dried leaves.

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Pecel

Pecel is a traditional Javanese salad, consisting of mixed vegetables in a peanut sauce dressing, usually served with steamed rice or sometimes with lontong or ketupat compressed rice cake.

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Pepes

Pepes is an Indonesian cooking method using banana leaf as food wrappings.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial nightshade Solanum tuberosum.

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.

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Puto

Puto is a type of steamed rice cake usually served as snack or as accompaniment to savory dishes such as dinuguan or pancit in Philippine cuisine and believed to be derived from Indian puttu of Kerala/Cuisine of Tamil Nadu origin.

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Rojak

Rojak (Malay spelling) or Rujak (Indonesian spelling) is a traditional fruit and vegetable salad dish commonly found in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

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Rongorongo

Rongorongo (Rapa Nui) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appear to contain writing or proto-writing.

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Ruled paper

Ruled paper (or lined paper) is writing paper printed with lines as a guide for handwriting.

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Satay

Satay, or sate in Indonesian spelling, is a dish of seasoned, skewered and grilled meat, served with a sauce.

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Singaporean cuisine

Singaporean cuisine is diverse and contains elements derived from several ethnic groups, as a result of its history as a seaport with a large immigrant population.

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Sinhalese alphabet

The Sinhalese alphabet (Sinhalese: සිංහල අක්ෂර මාලාව) (Siṁhala Akṣara Mālāva) is an alphabet used by the Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka and elsewhere to write the Sinhalese language and also the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit.

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South Indian cuisine

South Indian cuisine includes the cuisines of the five southern states of India—Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana—and the union territories of Lakshadweep, Pondicherry, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Steaming

Steaming is a method of cooking using steam.

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Strelitzia

Strelitzia is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa.

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Suman (food)

Suman is a rice cake originating in the Philippines.

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Taco

A taco is a traditional Mexican dish consisting of a corn or wheat tortilla folded or rolled around a filling.

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Tamale

A tamale (tamal, tamalli) is a traditional Mesoamerican dish made of masa or dough (starchy, and usually corn-based), which is steamed in a corn husk or banana leaf.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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Tomato

The tomato (see pronunciation) is the edible, often red, fruit/berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as a tomato plant.

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Tumpeng

Tumpeng is a cone-shaped rice dish with side dishes of vegetables and meat.

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Vaho

Vaho or baho is a mix of meat, green plantains and yuca cooked in banana leaves.

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Vigorón

Vigorón is a traditional Nicaraguan dish.

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Walter de Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter GmbH (or; brand name: De Gruyter) is a scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.

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Winnowing

Wind winnowing is an agricultural method developed by ancient cultures for separating grain from chaff.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_leaf

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