Vazhakoombu means Banana Flower.
Its rich nutritious dish and is very tasty.
This thoran is prepared using finely chopped Banana Flower with black-eyed beans. Its a dry dish.
INGREDIENTS:
- Blackeyed Beans(Van payar) - ½ cup
- Finely chopped Banana Flower - 2 cup
- Grated coconut - 1 cup
- Cumin seeds- ¼ tsp
- Garlic pods - 2 nos
- Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
- Chilly powder - 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
- Urad Dal - 1 tsp
- Red chillies - 3 nos
- Salt to taste
- Coconut Oil - 1 tbsp
- Curry leaves - A few
PREPARATION METHOD:
- Cook Beans in a Pressure cooker with water for 3 -4 whistle.
- Put chopped Banana flower in water for 15 minutes.
- Rinse and squeeze Banana flower from water.
- Cook Banana flower along with the cooked beans, Turmeric powder and Salt.
- Crush Coconut, Cumin seed, Chilly Powder and Garlic.
- When the banana flower is cooked well and water dries up, add Coconut mix and cook for 2 minutes.
- Remove from fire.
- Heat Oil in a Pan.
- Add Mustrard seeds and Red chillies into it, allow to Splutter.
- When it starts to splutter, add the Urad dal and fry it.
- Add Thoran and Curry leaves and stir for a minute and remove from fire.
Very tempting... Perfectly done...Thanks for linking to my event !!
ReplyDeleteExpecting more recipes from you :)
Cheers,
Sharanya
Sharans Samayalarai
Hi Lekshmi,
ReplyDeletePlease do add the event logo and announcement link to your posts which you have linked earlier to my event. This is a reminder for that otherwise I wont be able to add your entries in the round up..
http://vigsha.blogspot.com/2012/08/onam-sadhya-grand-feast-event.html
Cheers,
Sharanya.