Recipe: Perfect Banana flower with small cowpeas Curry

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Banana flower with small cowpeas Curry. This banana flower stir fry with coconut, spices and red cowpeas is a healthy, tasty Kerala style side dish which is enjoyed with rice along with any other curry or gravy, some suggestions would be to use moru curry, pulissery (coconut yogurt curry), sambar etc. The cowpeas should get cooked but shouldn't turn mushy. Peel and discard a few of the dark, outer layers or else the dish will be bitter.

Banana flower (kesel muwa) or banana blossom is a tasty ingredient for Sri Lankans to cook it as a stir fry or in a curry.

Even we cook this as banana flower pickle or as a seeni sambal.

I usually buy banana blossom (kesel muwa) whenever we visit Little India to buy vegetables.

You can have Banana flower with small cowpeas Curry using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Banana flower with small cowpeas Curry

1. Prepare 250 gm of flower of Banana.

2. Prepare 50 gm of small white Chana.

3. You need 1 of medium Potato chopped.

4. Prepare of For Masala.

5. It’s 2 tbsp of Onion paste.

6. Prepare 2 tsp of Ginger-Garlic paste.

7. It’s 2 of medium Tomato chopped.

8. You need 1 of green Chilli finely chopped.

9. It’s as needed of Dry Masala.

10. You need 1/3 tsp of Panch phutan.

11. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Kashmiri red chilli powder.

12. You need 1/4 tsp of Hing powder.

13. Prepare 1 tsp of Cumin seeds (zeera) powder.

14. You need 1/2 tsp of Coriander powder.

15. You need 1 tsp of Kasoori methi, lightly fried and crushed to powder.

16. It’s 1/3 tsp of Homemade Garam masala.

17. You need 1 tsp of cooking oil.

18. You need 1 tsp of Ghee.

19. It’s As needed of Chopped Green Coriander to garnish.

Among different Sri Lankan recipes to cook banana blossom, this is one of very easy recipe, which is called banana.

I have used small Cowpeas (While Chana) with the the clea and chopped Banana flowers to make the decision Curry. dharshinii eswaramoorthy.

Remove the few outer layers of banana flower and chop it finely by hand.

You can also chop it in a food processor.

Banana flower with small cowpeas Curry instructions

1. Soak the chana in warm water for 2 hours. Clean, wash and boil in a pressure cooker. Chop the Potato..

2. Separate the banana flowers from each other.

Remove the hard parts of each flower as seen on photo.The hard part cause bitterness.

Boil the flowers in hot water. Drain and chop.Take a kadhai. Heat oil. Add panch phutan and hing. Let it sputter.

Fry the Onion paste till translucent. Add ginger-garlic paste, Kashmiri chilli powder, turmeric, salt and chopped tomatoes.

Mix well. Slow down the flame and cover the Kadhai. Cook till the tomatoes are softened and oil is separated..

1. Now add 1cup of water and mix rest of the dry masala. Cook uncovered for 2 minutes in low medium flame.

Add chopped banana flowers, potatoes and boiled chana, cover and cook till it is done. Serve hot by garnishing with chopped coriander leaves with roti, poori or paratha. Thanks..

1. P.S. these two hard part of Banana flower are bitter. As remove them from each flower..

Squeeze out the water completely from the chopped banana flower and keep it aside.

Banana flower is very healthy and can be used in myriad ways in making any recipe.

I generally make a curry with black peas, Banana flower vada and a simple banana flower bhaji with coconut.

I hope this post help you on the method of cleaning and cutting banana blossom easily.

Chop the banana peel finely and place in boiling water with turmeric and salt until tender.