VAZHATHANDU BHAJIA, BANANA STEM BHAJIA

BANANA STEM OR VAZHATHANDU BHAJJI OR BHAJIA IS QUITE TASTY.  IT CAN BE SERVED AS AN EVENING SNACK.

FEW BENEFITS ARE GIVEN BELOW;

Health benefits of the juice:  Apart from helping to remove the stones from gall bladder, it also helps in reducing the weight, hyper acidity, people who are suffering from constipation, for diabetic patients and effective fro treating urinary tract infections.

Since it is bit time consuming to clean and cut the same, you can cut and store the same in fridge by putting it in the butter milk.  But I recommend always use fresh ones.

Banana stem has got many health benefits, the most important one is to prevent the kidney stone.  If you take juice of the same in the empty stomach, you will be relieved from the trouble of kidney stone.

We can make various dishes out of this.  Since so many days, I wanted to make bhajia out of this.  recently I made sabudana banana stem vada.  we can make poriyal,pachadi, raita etc. out of this.  We also use this for making killu karuvadam.

video is already uploaded. Link is Vazhathandu Bhajia

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Let us look at the recipe now;

Ingredients:

1/4 Cup Besan
1 Tsp Red chilli powder
Salt
Generous pinch of hing powder
A generous pinch of Ajwain or Omam
A pinch of soda
20 discs of Banana stem.
Oil for frying.

Method:

Remove the outer cover of banana stem and cut thin slice of the stem.  Wash and cook the same in water with salt.  Ensure that it is firm at the same time cooked.  Prepare the batter by mixing all the ingredients with little water.  The batter should not be runny. Keep the batter for half an hour.

Heat oil in kadai.  Dip the discs in the batter and put in oil.  Fry the bhajia till it is cooked.

How to serve:

Serve with sauce, chutney, or apply some chutney in pav or bread and stuff it and serve.


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