VazhaiPoo(Banana Flower) Vadai

I love eating banana flower.They are very good for health,but kids don't like the version of poriyal or Usli.All kids love vadai with the tomato sauce as the side dish.It is very easy to make and tastes very good.Usually when I purchase the banana flower I make poriyal with half of it and reserve the remaining for the vadai.This goes very well with rasam sadham .It also serves as  a very good snack item for the kids when they return from their schools.

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Vazhai Poo(banana blossom) Paruppu Usili

This is an authentic dish at Brahmin houses.When i got married to Hari and went to one of my hubby's relative house they served this dish.That was the first time i tasted usili and just loved it.Later I collected the recipe from lakshmi maami and also got few hints from my Sister in law.This is my favourite dish and everyone in my family loves eating this including my 2 year old kid.The cleaning of the flower is time consuming.So I clean the flower the last night,pack it in an air tight container and refrigerate it.It will last for 2 days too.This dish tastes like puttu.Eating banana flower will overcome the constipation problems.Usual Usli consumes more of oil.But considering the health factor I had reduced the amount of oil and also steam cooked the dal and hadn't deep fried.The original recipe calls for deep frying the grinded dhal.But steam cooking the dhal doesn't alter the taste!!!The detailed procedure of cleaning the flower and the cooking method is being given.