Vazhaipoo/ Banana Flower Vadai

Vazhaipoo/ Banana Flower Vadai

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Snack | Soaking Time : 3 hrs | Prep Time: 5 mins | Cook time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

• Banana Flower/ Vazhaipoo Cleaned  - 1Cup 
• Channa Dal - 3/4 Cup
• Raw rice flour- 2 tsp
• Red chili - 4
• Cumin seeds - 1 & 1/2 tsp
• Chopped Onion- 1/4 cup
• Salt - As needed
• Curry leaves, Coriander leaves - As needed
• Oil - For deep fry

Method:

Step 1:

• Soak Channa Dal for 3 hrs.
• Take a mixer, add red chilies, cumin, soaked channa dal without adding water grind it coarsely, Keep it aside.
• Take a pressure cooker add cleaned Vazhaipoo, Pressure cook for 1 whistle with water till immersing level. Drain water completely.Allow it to cool down.
• Squeeze the water completely.Then transfer to mixer and grind it to a semi fine paste. 
• Transfer to a mixing bowl and add the grind-ed things,  chopped onion, raw rice flour, salt,coriander,curry leaves Mix well.

Step 2:

• Heat oil in kadai and make medium sized patties/vadai in your palm. Grease your hands with water.
•  Put a small pinch of dough into the oil if it raises immediately then the oil temperature is just perfect
• Drop the vadai in oil and cook in medium flame. You can fry 4-5 at a time. Fry both sides until golden and crisp or until the inside gets cooked well. 

Notes

• You can also add Roasted Bengal Gram powder instead of raw rice flour. This is used for making the vadai more crisp.
• Instead of pressure cooking the vazhaipoo you can steam it in a idly cooker.
• Make sure u don’t add any water while grinding. the water in dal and vazhaipoo itself will be enough.