PAZHAM PORI [OR] BANANA FRITTERS
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Banana Fritters |
Ingredients:
Ripe Bananas – 2 sliced
[Nentran Pazham]
Plain flour – 1/2 cup
Rice flour – 1 tbsp
Sugar – 2 tbsp
Salt – 2 pinch
Water – 1/2 cup
Instructions:
Peel and slice the bananas.
Make the batter with flour, rice flour, sugar, salt and water.
The batter should be thicker as idli batter.
Dip the sliced bananas in the batter.
Heat oil in a frying pan.
Deep fry the bananas till golden brown.
Drain excess oil and serve hot.
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PAZHAM PORI |
Murukku
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Murukku |
Ingredients:
Raw rice flour - 3 cups
Urad dal flour - 1 cup
Butter - 1 tablespoon
Sesame seeds - 1 teaspoon
Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon
Salt - to taste
Asafoetida - 1/2 teaspoon
Water - 1 cup
Oil - for deep frying
Method:
Add rice flour, urad dhal flour, cumin seeds, sesame seeds, salt and butter in a bowl and mix well.
Add water little by little and form a soft non sticky dough.
Heat oil in kadai apparently, enough to deep fry the murukkus.
Use 3 rounds holes plate in murukku press.grease some plastic sheets and make murukku first Then drop into the oil.
Deep fry in medium flame.
Fry them till golden brown .Make sure it gets cooked evenly on both sides,turn over accordingly.
Drain in tissue,cool down completely and then store in airtight container.
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Murukku |
UPPERI [OR] KERALA BANANA CHIPS
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Kerala Banana chips |
Ingredients
Raw banana (Nentrankai) - 3
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Water - 1 cup
Salt - 2 tsp
Oil - for frying
Method
Peel the banana and immerse the same in turmeric water for 10-15 minutes. Remove and pat dry.
Mix turmeric powder and salt and water
Using a mandoline, slice the bananas directly into the hot oil.
Stir once so that they don’t stick together
When it is half cooked, add 1 tsp salt added turmeric water.
When the bubbling sound stops, remove from the oil and put in paper napkin to remove excess oil.
Cool and keep it in airtight container.
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Upperi |
SWEET MANGO PACHADI
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Sweet Mango Pachadi |
Ingredients:
Mango - 1 big
Green chillies - 1 slit
Red chilli - 1
Jaggery - 1/4 cup
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Urad dhal - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - few leaves
Water - 1/2 cup
Salt - 1 pinch
Method:
Peel off skin from mango and chop them into cubes
Take a pan, heat oil, add mustard seeds, urad dhal Red chilli and curry leaves
Once seeds start to pop up, add chopped mango and saute for 2 mins.
Add the green chillies and salt Cover the pan with lid and cook at medium heat for 5-8 mins
Add jaggery [melt jaggery and filter impurities] and keep stirring till jaggery is dissolved.
Add salt ,cook for another 5 mins till mango has mixed well with jaggery and then turn off heat
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Sweet Mango Pachadi |