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Are Banana Chips Healthy? Calories, Fat & the Coconut-Oil Question
Banana chips run ~519 kcal per 100 g (USDA). What that means, how Kerala salted nendran chips differ from sweetened wafers, and an honest portion guide.
A Malabar food house · Made in Calicut
The taste of home,
delivered from Calicut.
A small Calicut kitchen cooking authentic Malabar tea-time snacks for pan-India delivery. Start with our hero - Kozhi Ada, the spiced-chicken pocket eaten with chaya across north Kerala.
- Made in Calicut
- Pan-India shipping
Hero product
Kozhi Ada - the Malabar chicken pocket.
A soft rice-flour pocket stuffed with spiced shredded chicken, steamed and pan-finished in coconut oil. Mappila kitchens have cooked it for chaya time for over a century - almost impossible to find done well outside Kerala. Ours is.
Shop the range
Malabar snacks, shipped fresh
First batch opens July 2026.
Every batch is cooked by hand in our Calicut kitchen and shipped pan-India. Until the shop opens, explore the Malabar Snacks guide, the recipe library and the Kozhi Ada preview.
Be first to order
First batch opens July 2026. Check back soon - or reach us via the contact page and we'll keep you posted.
From the founder
A small kitchen with a clear brief.
Malabar snacks are hard to buy outside Kerala - and the few that ship are usually mass-produced. Calicut Cravings is a small, founder-led kitchen in Calicut shipping the Malabar food we actually eat at home, with the recipes and trade-offs documented openly.
Read the founder story →From the journal
Read before you cook (or order)
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Banana Chips Shelf Life: How Long They Last & How to Store Them
How long banana chips stay crisp - sealed, opened, and through monsoon humidity. Storage that works, the staleness signs, and why coconut oil buys you weeks.
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Calicut Halwa vs Karachi Halwa vs Tirunelveli Halwa: What's the Difference?
India's three famous halwas compared - Kozhikodan (wheat starch + coconut oil), Karachi/Bombay (corn flour + ghee) and Tirunelveli (wheat milk + ghee), honestly.
The kitchen library
Cook the whole Malabar repertoire
28 tested recipes and a full food glossary - every dish documented properly, from the everyday to the wedding table.
Thalassery chicken biryani Pazham Pori (banana fritters) Unnakaya (stuffed plantain) Kozhikodan halwa Kerala banana chips Ari Pathiri (rice flatbread) Sulaimani chai Erachi Choru (meat rice) Parippu Vada What is Mappila cuisine? Banana chips (upperi), explained Sharkara varatti, explained All 40+ Malabar snack names
The story
The word "calico" comes from Calicut.
The cotton cloth that clothed half of Europe in the 1600s took its name from our city - the spice-and-cloth port the world traded through for a thousand years. We named the brand after that exchange. The same trade winds that brought back dates, fennel and Arab baking technique still live in the food we cook today.
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1498
Vasco da Gama lands at Calicut, opening the Europe–Malabar spice route.
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17th c.
"Calico" enters English as the name for Calicut cotton.
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14th c.
Ibn Battuta visits Calicut and records it as one of the great harbours of the Indian Ocean world.
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Today
We cook those same trade-route flavours - spice, coconut, date, fennel - in a small kitchen here.
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