This snack is made with banana flower (vazhai poo) and is served with tea or coffee.
Vazhai Poo Vadai
Course: SnacksCuisine: Indian, TamilDifficulty: Medium
Servings
20
servingsPrep time
2
hours30
minutesCooking time
30
minutesThis snack is made with banana flower (vazhai poo) and is served with tea or coffee.
Ingredients
Vazhai Poo (Banana flower) – 1 No
Bengal Gran Dhal – 2 cups
Red Chillies – 4 Nos
Asafotida powder – a pinch
Sombu (aniseeds) – 1 teaspoon
Fresh ginger – small piece
Onion – 1 No
Green chillies – 2 Nos
Curry leaves – few
Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
Oil – for deep frying
Buttermilk – ½ cup (for soaking the florets)
Directions
- Soak bengal gram dhal for two to three hours.
- Chop onion, green chillies and curry leaves finely.
- Remove the big skin (bract) and take out the florets found underneath. In the florets, you will find a string in the middle and a rubbery skin outside. Remove both from each floret. Then chop all the florets into tiny bits and put in water mixed with butter milk. This will avoid discoloration of the florets.
- Wash well and put the chopped florets in a vessel and add little salt and mix well. Keep it aside.
- Wash and drain the water completely from soaked dhal. Mix soaked dhal, red chillies, ginger, sombu, asafoetida and salt together and grind to a coarse paste. Remove it.
- Take out a handful of florets and squeeze out the excess water and add it to the dhal paste. Add chopped onions, green chillies, curry leaves and mix well.
- Heat oil in a kadai. Take out a lemon size dough and flatten it. Deep fry in oil till it become golden brown.
Simply superb. I make curry out of banana flowerlets, but this was great
Thank you Jammi.
Once again this recipe also came out well and crunchy too.
Thanks for the recipe, do you recipe for vazhapoo curry.
Thank you Akila for your feed back. For Vazhaipoo curry, please check here https://www.kamalascorner.com/2007/08/vazhai-poo-banana-flower-poriyal.html
Amma, I tried Vazhayi poo Vadai & Carrot Sago Payasam. Both came out simply superb.. Now I’m a regular visitor of your site
Thank you Jyothi for trying my recipes and your kind feedback on this.