Saturday 15 March 2014

BANANA FLOWER RAITA

All parts of Banana Plant is useful for us.  The banana stem, flower, fruit are used for making various delicacies.  I have already posted the banana flower sambar.

Today, I made raita out of it and it was very delicious.  I wanted to eat rice today and do not want to make any dishes which are time consuming as I had planned to make the vada which has taken a lot of time in cleaning the flower.

Since Holi festival is on 17th March 2014, I had planned to upload  pooran poli and thandai  recipe hence settled down for the simple raita, rice and papad for the day.

I really enjoyed it.  Now it is your turn to enjoy this simple, healthy recipe.

banana flower raita, khel phoolachi raita, vazhapoo raita




Ingredients;

1/4 cup banana flower chopped
1/4 cup curd
1/4 cup grated coconut
little turmeric powder (optional)
1 green chilli
1/4 tsp mustard seeds
1/4 tsp cumin seeds
salt to taste

Tempering:

1 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp urid dal
1 piece of red chilli
curry leaves
a pinch of asafoetida (optional)

Garnishing:

chopped coriander leaves (optional)


Method:

clean the banana blossom, chop and put it in butter milk, salt and turmeric water.  This is done to avoid the flowers become black after chopping.
wash and cook them with enough water by adding little salt and turmeric powder. either drain the water or cook till the water is completely dried out.
Grind the coconut, green chilli, cumin and mustard seeds to a fine paste.  add this mixture in the curd.  put the banana flower in the curd , coconut mixture.  adjust salt.  temper with the ingredients mentioned above and garnishing with coriander leaves.  serve with pulao, rice, chapati, roti.

Note:  You can add a pinch of sugar in it.


Other recipes of banana flower:   banana-flower-thoran,  banana-stem-kofta-pakora-sambarbanana-stem-kofta-kadhibanana-flower-sambar-vazhapoo-sambar,  raw-banana-cutlet-banana-cutlet,  banana-stem-soupbanana-stem-chutney-vazhathandu-chutney,   pazham-pori-ripe-banana-fritters-ripe.   banana-flower-vada.
Watch on Youtube:  banana flower raita.  

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