Bananas Empanada
There
are no stories specific to bananas empanadas, or fried bananas, but the Brazilian
bananas are still a bit unique on their own. Although tradition says banana
trees started in Malaysia and from there they spread to the rest of the world,
when the colonizers got to Brazil they found banana trees already there. Many
different types of trees which grew kinds of bananas they had never before seen.
Tradition says that the bananeira, a banana
tree, when it sprouts the bananas, it cries like a woman giving birth. Thus
some of the Catholic priest that first started catechizing in Brazil even began
to think that the forbidden fruit was actually not an apple, but a banana…
Bananas are great in so many ways, but my favorite is the Brazilian banana empanada.
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