Vazhaipoo Paruppu Usili | Vazhaipoo paruppu poriyal | Banana flower stir fry | Plantain Flower Kootu

Cuisine Style: South India | Cooking Time: 20 minutes | To Serve: 7 | Type: Paruppu Usili, Poriyal, Stir fry, kootu

Ingredients

• Vazhaipoo [banana flower] – 2
• Coconut – ¼ cup [grated]
• Onion – 1 [sliced]
• Dry red chilli - 1
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
• Red chilli powder – ¼ tsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp
• Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – 1 tbsp
• Jaggery – ½ tbsp
• Oil – 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed

For grinding [Ingredients]

• Toor dal – 1 tbsp
• Benglal gram – 2 tbsp
• Coconut – 3 tbsp [grated]
• Red chilli – 1
• Salt to taste
• Wash and soak toor dal and Bengal gram for 2 hours. Then coarsely grind with dry red chilli, coconut and salt. Steam in idli cooker for 5 min

Method

• Peel off the petals. And pluck the white flowers. Then hold flower bunch & rub the tip with other hand now you can see the stamens and stigma. Just cut the stigma. Now chop and put it in turmeric powder mixed water.
• Repeat the procedure for all flowers. Then drain excess water and boil for 7 min
• Heat pan with oil add mustard, Bengal gram and urad dal.
• Add onion sauté till soft. Then add dry red chilli and curry leaves.
• Add 2 tbsp coconut, dry red chilli sauté well. Add ground mixture sauté gently
• Add banana flower and salt sauté well. Then add jaggery and remaining coconut mix well. cut off heat and serve hot with rice.
  

How to make Vazhaipoo Paruppu Usili - Step by Step procedure with pictures

Banana flower

Peel off the petals

Pluck the white flowers

Hold flower bunch rub the tip

Stamens and stigma

Cut the stigma

Chop flowers

once chopped, put in turmeric added water immediately

Boil

Perfectly boiled

Grinding ingredients in mixer jar

Coarsely grind & Steam in idli cooker

Heat pan, add oil, mustard, bengal gram and urad dal

add onion & dry red chilli

Add curry leaves

Add coconut & red chilli powder

Add steamed dals mixture

Add boiled banana flower & salt mix well

Add grated coconut & Jaggery

Vazhaipoo paruppu usili-Ready to serve