BANANA FLOWER STIR FRY RECIPE / BAALE HOO PALYA / VAZHAI POO PARUPPU USILI
Banana Flower Stir fry / usili is a very healthy , proteinaceous and tasty side dish which tastes amazing when paired with hot rice and ghee
Ingredients
- 1 no Banana flower / Baale hoovu
- 1/4 cup coconut, grated
- few drops of Lemon juice
- Salt, to taste
To grind
- 1/2 cup Chana Dal / bengal gram
- small piece Ginger
- 2-4 nos Green Chilli, as per taste
- 1-2 nos Red Chilli
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
To temper
- 2-3 tsp Oil
- 3/4 tsp Mustard
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 1-2 pinch Asafoetida/ hing
- few Curry Leaves
- 1 no Red Chilli, broken
Instructions
- Wash fresh banana flower. Discard few outermost petals , which are very thick and little aged ( around 3-4 layers ).They will have slight bitterness . So better not to use . The white flowers , if they are grown , remove the stamen . The tender ones you can use as such . refer video to clean and chop
- Finely chop banana flower from tip and drop them in a bowl of water . Keep it so for 10 mins . Later discard water and chopped banana flower is ready to use . refer video to clean and chop
- Wash and soak chanadal for 2-3 hours.Once dal is soaked well, discard extra water.
- Grind chana dal along with ,ginger, red chilli , green chilli and salt to a coarse paste. Do not add any water.
- Transfer the coarse paste to a wide container.
- To the coarse bengal gram paste , add chopped Banana flower .Mix well.
- Prepare a steamer. Grease an Idli plate / Dhokla plate . Place banana flower + Chana dal mix into it .Steam cook for about 15 mins .
- Switch off. Allow it to cool .
- later crumble it and keep aside .
- In a non stick / heavy bottom pan take oil. Add mustard seeds,urad dal .One they splutter add haldi,hing ,curry leaves and broken red chilli pieces. saute for a min.
- Next add pre cooked banana flower chana dal mix. Mix well. Keep the flame on sim and stir in between . Continue the process for another 5-10 mins so that sabzi gets a nice roasted taste n appearance.
- Finally , Turn off the flame , add grated coconut and squeeze lemon. Mix well.
- Serve hot Banana Flower palya topped with ghee with steaming rice / chapathi / eat as such .
