Vazhapoo Vadai or Pakoras (Plantain Flower Pakoras)
This is the recipe that I have learnt from my mom.I used to ask her to make it very often before I got married without understanding the efforts to be put it to make this.
Vazhapoo is a healthy vegetable and I think this is a excellent way of adding it to my food.
To do this dish, we need to plan well in advance as cleaning the flower is a laborious process.
I plan to post a step by step post on how to clean and store Plantain Flower the night before as we can make the Vadai in a jiffy.
Ok, now to the recipe:
Ingredients:
Plantain Flower -1/2 cup (Finely Chopped and steamed)
Gram Dhall - 3/4 to 1 cup (Soaked for 3-4 Hours)
Onion - Finely chopped
Green Chillies - FInely Chopped
Hing - A pinch
Oil - To fry
Salt - to Taste
Method:
Grind the gram dhall coarsely. Run the steamed flower for a second and add it to the grinded dhall. To this add chopped onions,chopped Green chillies and hing and salt and mix well.
Heat oil in a pan and make the mixture into vada/dumplings and deep fry.
They taste excellent as a snack or can be served with rice and Rasam.
I don't prefer this with rice and Sambhar as it becomes too much of Dhall for a day.
Note:
This is the recipe that I have learnt from my mom.I used to ask her to make it very often before I got married without understanding the efforts to be put it to make this.
Vazhapoo is a healthy vegetable and I think this is a excellent way of adding it to my food.
To do this dish, we need to plan well in advance as cleaning the flower is a laborious process.
I plan to post a step by step post on how to clean and store Plantain Flower the night before as we can make the Vadai in a jiffy.
Ok, now to the recipe:
Ingredients:
Plantain Flower -1/2 cup (Finely Chopped and steamed)
Gram Dhall - 3/4 to 1 cup (Soaked for 3-4 Hours)
Onion - Finely chopped
Green Chillies - FInely Chopped
Hing - A pinch
Oil - To fry
Salt - to Taste
Method:
Grind the gram dhall coarsely. Run the steamed flower for a second and add it to the grinded dhall. To this add chopped onions,chopped Green chillies and hing and salt and mix well.
Heat oil in a pan and make the mixture into vada/dumplings and deep fry.
They taste excellent as a snack or can be served with rice and Rasam.
I don't prefer this with rice and Sambhar as it becomes too much of Dhall for a day.
Note:
- I have also noticed some of add Saunf to this, I don't use it in my cooking at all as I don't like the taste.
- You can skip the step of steaming and grinding the flower if you can finely chop the plantain flower.
- The plantain flower leaves a black stain on the chopping board, so I keep a separate chopping board for that.
- You can also add Red chillies instead of Green chillies and they bring a different flavour and taste to the dish.
- If you are using red chillies, grind it along with the Dhall.
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