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Healthy Food Recipes - Vazhaipoo Vadai (Banana Flower Vada)

Posted on: 02/Feb/2015 3:50:57 PM
Ingredients
  • Vazhai poo (Banana Flower cleaned) – 1 cup
  • Channa Dal (Kadala Parupu) – 1 cup
  • Red Chilli – 2 nos
  • Rice Flour – 1 spoon (Optional)
  • Onion – 1 nos
  • Fennel Seeds – 1 spoon
  • Ginger – a small piece
  • Curry leaves – a few 
  • Coriander Leaves – a few
  • Salt – To taste
  • Cooking Oil – for deep fry
Method of Preparation
  1. Soak channa dal in water for an hour before preparation of vada.



  2. Clean Vazhai poo thoroughly and chop it in to small pieces. Add 1 spoon of curd to a bowl of water immerse the chopped banana flower in it.



  3. Drain water from channa dal and grind it in a mixer along with ginger (remove its skin off) and red chilli, salt, fennel seeds to a coarse paste without adding water.



  4. Then transfer it in a mixing bowl and add chopped Vazhai poo, onion, curry leaves and coriander leaves and mix well.
  5. Drain water completely from banana flower and then add it for mixing.



  6. If the dough is tight enough for preparing vada, then leave it.
  7. If the dough is little bit light and watery, then add 1 spoon of rice flour into it. Also rice flour will grant a crispy flavour to the vada.
  8. Then make small balls from the dough. 
  9. Spread each ball using hand either on a plastic sheet or banana leaf greased with the oil. 
  10. Then deep fry it, in a tawa of cooking oil. Always keep the stove in low flame, while deep frying the vada.



  11. Hot Vazhai Poo Vada is ready to serve!



Tips:
  • Be cautious while buying the banana flower from shop: see the colour of the red petals of banana flower; if it is in dark maroon colour then it will taste good.
  • Instead of red chilli, you can very well use green chilli also.
  • Instead of directly adding the chopped banana flower into the flour, it is always better to grind the banana flower in a mixer for about two rounds (to a coarse particles) and add it to the channa dal flour. 
  • While grinding the dough for channa dal vada, it should be always a coarse state, conversely the Urad dal vada should be in fine paste.
Health Benefits of Banana flower :
  • Banana flower is very healthful for woman, as it strengthens the uterus.
  • It is very beneficial for diabetes patients, because it aids in maintaining the stable blood sugar level.
  • It is very good for pregnant women.
  • It aids in boosting the secretion of breast milk.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath