VAZHAI POO VADAI

VAZHAI POO VADAI
Ingredients:
1 cup chopped vazhai poo
1 cup channa dal soaked for an hour
2 medium onions finely chopped
3 green chillies finely chopped
1 tsp fennel seeds
½ tsp cumin seeds
2 tsp finely chopped ginger
8 curry leaves finely chopped
3 stalks coriander leaves finely chopped
2 cups of thin butter milk
Salt to taste
Oil for frying.

Method:
Peel the outer skin from the banana flower.
Remove the small white stem inside each flower.
Remove also the small petal like skin.
Cut the flower into small pieces.
Immediately place them in the butter milk.
Otherwise the they will become dark.

Remove 2 tsp of the soaked channa dal.
Now drain the water completely from the dal.
Grind the dal to a coarse paste.
Mix the chopped onion, green chillies, ginger
Cumin, fennel seeds, curry leaves and coriander leaves.
Squeeze out the butter milk from the chopped flowers.
Add the flowers and salt.

Mix everything to form a thich dough.
Make small balls of the mixture and flatten
To make the vadai shape with your hands.
Deep fry them in oil till golden brown.
Serve hot.