kerala pazham pori recipe /banana fritters /ethakka appam
Ingredients
- Nendram pazham /Kerala raw banana - 1 well ripened
- All purpose flour /maida - 1/2 cup
- Dosa batter - 3 tbsp
- Salt a pinch
- Sugar - 2-3 tbsp
- Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
- Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
- Refined/groundnut oil to fry
Instructions
- Take a bowl add dosa batter then add sugar, baking soda, salt then add cardamom powder.
- Add maida and add water to mix up the batter inbetween add turmeric powder also and mix to form a batter that is lightly thin than idli maavu batter.
- In-between peel the bananan slit into half in length wise section and half them.
- Then slide each one as thick pieces.
- Now heat up the kadai with oil till it is piping hot.
- Now dip each piece of the fruit in the batter and put it in oil.
- Cook till they become golden(adjust the flame and don’t let it burn).
- Take out in a tissue and serve a teatime snack.
Notes
The heat should be in medium high not too high that it burns the batter.
Turmeric powder gives the exact golden colour, you can add even yellow food colour instead.
If you are not using dosa batter then add the rice flour instead.
For half cup of maida you can add 2 tbsp of rice flour.
You can cut into roundels also and do this snack.
Turmeric powder gives the exact golden colour, you can add even yellow food colour instead.
If you are not using dosa batter then add the rice flour instead.
For half cup of maida you can add 2 tbsp of rice flour.
You can cut into roundels also and do this snack.