Spicy Banana Chips Petals( Nurukku Upperi) 4V Cut Raw Nendran, Spicy· Kerala’s Sadhya Chip

**In Kerala’s culinary vocabulary, the word Upperi carries more than a snack’s name.**

It signals care, preparation, and the kind of snacking that does not cut corners. Among all Upperi varieties — the thin round Ethakka Upperi, the jaggery-coated Sharkara Varatti, the jackfruit Chakka Upperi — the Nurukku Upperi holds a particular place. Nurukku means broken or fractured in Malayalam. The name describes the cut: a raw Nendran banana quartered into four distinctive triangular pieces — the 4V cut — each one thicker, denser, and sturdier than a round-sliced chip. This is the chip that can hold its crunch through the length of a Sadhya feast. This is the chip that sits at the corner of the banana leaf and stays there, unapologetically firm, through every course.

**The Onam Sadhya is Kerala’s most elaborate meal.**

Served on a fresh banana leaf to seated guests, it comprises 26 or more dishes — rice, sambar, avial, olan, thoran, rasam, papad, pickle, payasam — and Nurukku Upperi. No major Sadhya in Kerala is considered complete without it. The petal-cut chip has the thickness to stand alongside the richness of the feast without disappearing, and the crunch to provide the textural contrast that the softer dishes need. It is not a background snack. It is a structural ingredient in the feast’s sensory architecture.

**Eat India Spicy Nurukku Upperi begins with that same Nendran banana, that same 4V petal cut, that same hearty thickness.**

Then we add our deliberate departure: a tangy tomato and Tango seasoning blend — layered over each chip after frying, coating the petal’s wide surface area with a bold, spicy heat that builds as you eat. The tomato’s natural acidity cuts through the chip’s richness. The Tango spice blend adds layers — first the tang, then the heat, then the savoury depth. Together they transform the Sadhya classic into a snack that is equally at home on a festival table or a weeknight snack bowl.

Sealed in 120g packs with a 6-month shelf life, Eat India Spicy Nurukku Upperi ships pan-India — bringing Kerala’s most distinctive chip shape, and a flavour reimagining it has never had before, to every corner of the country.