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Banana Blossom's Florets

Crispy fritters

Crunchy fritters

Banana flower or Banana blossom are the blossoms from a banana tree. They're a completely edible delicacy.

To prepare banana floret fritters we prepare besan/gram flour batter by mixing other spices and dip the florets in the batter one by one and deep fry them.

The fact is each part of banana tree is used for various purpose.

For example:

Banana leaf used for cooking, wrapping and food serving.
Banana stem has high water content - it's juice cures kidney stone and are also used to prepare salad , curry etc.
Banana fiber are used to tie flowers together etc.
Banana fruit ripe ones are used to perform pooja (in Hindu religion) and raw ones are used to prepare curry etc.

Ingredients

Banana flower florets - 1 fistful
Besan(gram) flour - 2 to 3 tbsp.
Corn flour - 1 tbsp.
Water - as required
Salt - ½ tsp
Spicy chilly powder - ½ tsp
Kashmiri chilly powder - ¼ tsp (optional)
Asafetida powder (hing) - ¼ tsp
Cumin seeds - ¼ tsp

Note : Here we are preparing 2 types of batter. Same ingredients but with different consistency.

Method (YouTube video - 2min 16sec)

How to clean banana flower/blossom

Take 1 Banana blossom and peel it's cover and separate the cover and flower till you see white portion(refer the video above).
You can prepare chutney out of the white portion. In Kerala they prepare it's chutney called chammanthi.
You can make chips/fries of those floret's(tiny flower).
You can make chutney from banana flower peel/cover.

How to clean the florets

Take a floret

Remove a nail like structure

Remove hard stick like structure

Now the floret is ready to use

Note: Clean the floret and place them in water. Otherwise it will turn black.

After cleaning the floret's place them in water and let it rest for 5-10 min.
Drain the water and add ½ tsp salt mix well, keep aside and start preparing batter.
In a mixing bowl, add 2-3 tbsp gram/besan flour, 1 tbsp corn flour, ½ tsp spicy chilly powder, ¼ tsp kashmiri chilly powder, ¼ tsp cumin/jeera seeds.
Pour little water and mix well. You can make thick or semi thick consistency.

With thick batter you can get crunchy fritters
With semi thick batter you can get crispy fritters

Squeeze out the salt water from the florets and dip it one by one in the batter.
Drop it in hot boiling oil, once the kadai gets half full reduce the flame and flip and fry till gold in color.
Ready to serve as snacks or along with rice. Enjoy...!

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