PAZHAM PORI, RIPE BANANA FRITTERS, RIPE PLANTAIN FRITTERS

Pazham pori or Banana fritters are made with Ripe  Nendran Pazham.  This banana is available plenty in Kerala and this is a lovely snack enjoyed with a cup of tea.  In every tea shop, it is available.  This banana is very healthy as it contains potassium, Dietary fiber, Vitamin C.  The raw ones are used for making chips, sliced, sun dried and made powder out of,  it is given to small children as baby food (in place of farex etc.).  It can be cut into 3-4 pieces, boiled and served for breakfast.  (it is called pazham nurukku).

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Let us look at the recipe now:

Ingredients:

1.  3/4 cup maida (all purpose flour)
2.  3 tbsp rice flour
3.  2 tsp milk
4.  2 tsp sugar
5.  a pinch of cardamom powder
6.  a pinch of salt
7.  oil for deep frying.
8.  a pinch of baking powder (optional)
9.  1/2 cup water + 1 tsp
10  a pinch of turmeric powder
11. 1 Ripe Nenthran pazham (Ripe Nendran banana)

Method:

1.  In a wide bowl, mix the maida, sugar, milk, salt.
2.  Add water and make a batter out of it.
3.  Ensure that there are no lumps in int.
4.  Add the turmeric powder, cardamom powder and mix well.
5.  cut both the ends of banana and peel off the skin.
6.  Cut into two pieces and slice each piece into four. 
7.  Heat oil in a kadai.
7.  dip the pieces in the batter and fry them till light golden brown.
8.  Serve hot with a cup of tea//coffee.

You can make 8-10 pieces of Pazham pori out of this.

I had some left over batter so i added little bit salt, chilli powder and sliced one raw banana, dipped it in the batter and fried.  that was also tasty.

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