Preparation For : 4 People | Preparation Time : 25 Minuites (Approx)
Ingredients
- Khakaru phula (pumpkin blossoms) -1 dozen
- Chaula chuna (rice flour) -10 tablespoon
- Refined oil -4 tablespoon
- Rasuna (Garlic) – 10 cloves
- Jeera (Cumin seeds )-3 teaspoon
- (Sukhila lanka) Dry chili -2 pcs( as per taste)
- Salt - as per taste
Preparation : Step wise
- Clean the blossoms, remove stem, soak in turmeric water (1 teaspoon turmeric powder+ 2cups water) for 5 mins.
- Make a fine paste of garlic, cumin seeds and dry chili.
- Take out the blossoms from water, keep aside.
- To the rice flour add water, masala paste, salt. Make a semi liquid batter. It should not be very thin.
- Heat oil in a frying pan or tawa, when it is hot deep each blossom into the seasoned rice flour paste and fry.
- Turn it upside down and fry till both sides are golden brown.
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Health & Additional Cooking Tips
Pumpkin blossoms and rice flour contains energy and carbohydrate. If rice flour is not available, soak rice in water for 30 mins, grind it with the masala s to make the batter.
April 25th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Thnaks ILIMA for this delicious receipe.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Another variation for the batter is soaked rice, garlic, whole red chillies and cumin seeds ground to a smooth paste. Besan is added to the paste and Khakharu phula is dipped into the batter and shallow fried. Goes well with rice as a side dish.