Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, banana blossom appetizer or mochar chop. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
mochar chop or banana blossom appetizer As I was gently removing the outer bracts to extract the inner flowers, moments slowly drifted me towards my childhood days. It's basically mochar cutlet as we Bengalis generally identify the chop as dipped in a gram flour batter before frying it in oil. And whereas, the cutlet is nicely coated in breadcrumbs before deep frying in oil and this mochar chop is following the later one. Mocha is basically Banana Blossom or banana flower.
Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have banana blossom appetizer or mochar chop using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop:
- Take 1 cup banana flower(mocha) chopped and boiled
- Get 2 potatoes boiled
- Make ready 1 onion chopped
- Take 1 tsp ginger paste
- Make ready 1 tbsp gramflour
- Prepare 2 tbsp cornflour or maida
- Prepare 1 cup breadcrumbs
- Prepare 1 tbsp roasted peanuts
- Get 2 green chillies chopped
- Get 1/4 th tsp red chilli powder
- Make ready 1/4 th tsp garam masala
- Get 1 tbsp coriander chopped
- Make ready As needed oil for frying
- Take To taste salt and sugar
It is a flavourful and healthy Bengali delicacy and can be served as an appetizer with Kasundi or any chutney of your choice. Banana Blossom Cutlet/kele ke phool ki cutlet/Mochar chop/easy cutlets recipe #bananablossomcutlet#bananaflowercutlet#kelekephoolkicutlet Mochar ghonto or stir fried banana blossoms is a classic bengali dish whereby the chopped blossoms are stir fried in hot oil with bay leafs, garam masala and handful of shredded coconut and chickpeas. The magnesium in the banana blossom makes it a 'happy' flower as it is believed to reduce anxiety and alleviate your mood. The 'Mochar Ghonto' is a traditional Bengali preparation, where the banana flowers are cooked along with potato and aromatic spices.
Steps to make Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop:
- Discard the purple petals of banana flower or mocha.Take out all the flowers inside each layer.Peel and remove the hard stick like stigma with round head and a transparent petal in each flower.Now chop the flowers finely and soak in a turmeric and salt solution for few hours or overnight.Discard this water if it tastes bitter.Pressure cook the chopped flowers with 1.5 cups water upto 2 whistles.Release pressure and strain out all water or dry up.Boil cubed potatoes and mash and mix both.
- Add ginger paste,gramflour,breadcrumbs,chopped green chillies,coriander,red chilli powder, garam masala and half crushed peanuts.Knead to form a dough.Heat 2 tbsp oil and lightly fry the onion.Add the mashed dough and toss all.Divide into round balls and flatten slightly.Make a slurry of cornflour.Dip each chop or cutlet in it and double coat in breadcrumbs.
- Refrigerate for an hour before frying.Heat 1.5 cups refined oil in a pan and deep fry the chops till golden brown.Serve hot delicious mochar chop/cutlet with tea or as a starter in parties with hot and sweet tomato sauce and sliced onion.
The magnesium in the banana blossom makes it a 'happy' flower as it is believed to reduce anxiety and alleviate your mood. The 'Mochar Ghonto' is a traditional Bengali preparation, where the banana flowers are cooked along with potato and aromatic spices. Mocha or Banana Blossom is used as a nutritious food item in Southeast Asia. It has a lot of medicinal values like blood purification, curing stomach ulcers, constipation, menstrual disorders etc. Since they are rich in fiber content they help in increasing the hemoglobin level of our blood.
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