Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, banana blossom fritters. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Banana blossom fritters is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Banana blossom fritters is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Preparing the blossoms is laborious, the inflorescence is stripped off the fibrous pistil individually, diced and immersed in acidulated water to prevent oxidation, drained and combined with chickpea flour and spices to make a thick mix that is deep fried. Banana blossoms are available in Asian or Indian grocery stores on a regular basis. Now the Banana florets are cleaned, chopped and ready, let us prepare the batter. Soak the Bengal gram in water for.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have banana blossom fritters using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Banana blossom fritters:
- Prepare 1 cup Banana Blossom, cleaned
- Get 1/2 cup chana dal
- Get 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
- Get 2 dried red chillies
- Get 1/2 inch ginger
- Make ready 6 cloves garlic
- Prepare 2 onions, chopped
- Prepare 4 sprigs coriander leaves, chopped
- Prepare 2 sprigs curry leaves, chopped
- Make ready 2 green chillies, chopped
- Take 1 pinch asafoetida
- Get 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Get As needed Vegetable oil to deep fry
Vazhaipoo Vadai is a super delicious South Indian snack / appetizer made from chana dal and the banana flower / blossom. Deep fried until crispy and golden. Line a baking sheet with aluminium foil and spray with oil. Steam the cleaned banana blossom until soft.
Instructions to make Banana blossom fritters:
- Soak the chana dal in water for 2 hours. Take a mixie and add in the cumin, fennel seeds, dried red chillies, ginger and garlic. Add a couple of tablespoon of the soaked chana dal and grind to a coarse paste.
- Once the masala is coarsely ground, add drained chana dal on top of it and grind again. Please do not add water while grinding. It's very important. Pulse several times if necessary.
- Now add the banana blossom to the mixie and grind again. If you do not have a heavy duty mixie, chop the banana blossoms before adding.
- Remove the ground batter to a bowl and add in the chopped onions, coriander leaves, curry leaves, green chillies, a pinch of asafoetida and the salt. Mix well to combine
- Mix well and check for seasoning. Add extra salt if necessary. Form the vadai. Take a small lime size batter in hand and make a ball. Make small balls. Remember that smaller balls makes for crispier vadais. Gently flatten it on the hands. Gather the edges to smoothen. The more you flatten, the more crispier the vadas
Line a baking sheet with aluminium foil and spray with oil. Steam the cleaned banana blossom until soft. Because I have known banana blossoms are edible ever since I was a little child. There was someone who would make killer fritters with this magical fruit (now that I am thinking about it, I wonder if it is a fruit at all!). I don't remember her but I remember the fritters (they were that good!)..
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