Vazhaipoo Usili

Recipe : Vazhaipoo paruppusili
Shared by : Hemalatha Jayaraman
Dated : 08/12/2014

Ingredients : 
Banana flower 1,
 tuvar dhall, channa dhall - half tumbler each,
 red chillis 8, salt to taste. 
Soak dhalls for an hour. 

Meantime clean the banana flower taking out all the sticks that show up (we call it kallan in Tamil) when you rub the separate bunches inside with palm. To avoid palms getting sticky, we can apply some gingelly oil in palms and continue cleaning

Cut the cleaned banana flower fine and put in a vessel with some water and buttermilk thus avoiding it to turn black Grind the soaked dhalls with red chilli's and require salt coarsely and keep the batter in idli plates inside the cooker without placing weight for 10 minutes. Boil the cut banana flower with some salt till done. Cool the boiled batter and make it into powder form gently with a spoon. Take some gingelly oil in a kadai, season with hing. mustard seeds and curry leaves. Add the boiled banana flower and shall and mix well. After 5 minutes when both blend well switch off the stove.



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