VAZHAIKAI PODI
Preparing vazhaikai podi is as easy as eating a ripe banana! Raw banana cooks very fast and once you keep the 'podi' ( powder ) handy, a delicious vazhaikai podi can be dished out in no time. There are various recipes using different ingredients for preparing the podi, but I love my mother's podi the best.
INGREDIENTS
Raw bananas - 2 ( medium size )
Tur dal - 4 tbsps
Red chillies - 6
Asafoetida - one small piece
Salt - 1 1/2 tsps
sesame oil - 2 tsps
Mustard seeds -1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - a few
METHOD
1. Wash and cut the raw bananas across into 2 inch thick pieces.
2. Add enough water just to cover the cut vegetable and cook till tender.
3. Drain and cool the cooked bananas.
4. Heat a drop of oil in a pan and add asafoetida.
5. Add tur dal and red chillies and roast till it emanates a pleasant aroma.
6. Cool and coarsely powder the roasted ingredients.
7. Remove the peel and crumble the cooked banana.
8. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds.
9. When the mustard seeds splutter add the curry leaves and decrease the flame.
10. Add the crumbled banana , the dal powder and salt and mix well,and switch off flame.
Enjoy the hot and spicy vazhaikai podi with rice and a dollop of ghee, just as you would enjoy chutney and rice.
Or relish it with rasam rice or curd rice.
This post goes to "Healing Foods - Banana" event at Krithi's Kitchen!
Preparing vazhaikai podi is as easy as eating a ripe banana! Raw banana cooks very fast and once you keep the 'podi' ( powder ) handy, a delicious vazhaikai podi can be dished out in no time. There are various recipes using different ingredients for preparing the podi, but I love my mother's podi the best.
INGREDIENTS
Raw bananas - 2 ( medium size )
Tur dal - 4 tbsps
Red chillies - 6
Asafoetida - one small piece
Salt - 1 1/2 tsps
sesame oil - 2 tsps
Mustard seeds -1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - a few
METHOD
1. Wash and cut the raw bananas across into 2 inch thick pieces.
2. Add enough water just to cover the cut vegetable and cook till tender.
3. Drain and cool the cooked bananas.
4. Heat a drop of oil in a pan and add asafoetida.
5. Add tur dal and red chillies and roast till it emanates a pleasant aroma.
6. Cool and coarsely powder the roasted ingredients.
7. Remove the peel and crumble the cooked banana.
8. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds.
9. When the mustard seeds splutter add the curry leaves and decrease the flame.
10. Add the crumbled banana , the dal powder and salt and mix well,and switch off flame.
Enjoy the hot and spicy vazhaikai podi with rice and a dollop of ghee, just as you would enjoy chutney and rice.
Or relish it with rasam rice or curd rice.
This post goes to "Healing Foods - Banana" event at Krithi's Kitchen!
