Recipes using Flowers

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    Drum Stick Flowers Curry

    Ingredients:

    1 cup cleaned drum stick flowers
    4 tab sp coconut
    10 - 12 small onion
    2 - 4 green chilies
    Salt

    for seasoning:

    2 sp oil
    1 sp mustard seeds
    1 sp udad dal

    Method:

    In a pan make seasoning.
    Put chopped green chilies and onions.
    Stir for a while.
    Add the flowers and salt.
    Add little water and close the lid.
    Cook till the flowers are cooked.
    Add grated coconut and mix well.
    Remove and serve with hot rice andsambar.
    This is good for health.
     
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    Drum Stick Flowers Kootu

    Ingredients:

    1 cup Drum stick flowers
    10 small onions
    2 - 4 red or green chilly (optional)
    1/2 cup cooked moong dal
    2 sp Kuttu podi
    salt
    Ghee to make seasoning
    1 sp mustard seeds
    1 sp udad dal

    Method:
    Wash and clean drum stick flowers.
    In a deep pan pour ghee and make seasoning.
    Add washed drum stick flowers and fry well.
    Add cut onions and green chilly or red chilly.
    Add cooked dal and mix well.
    Add salt and kuttu podi.
    Allow it to boil for a while.
    Stir well and remove from the fire.
    Serve with hot rice or chappati.
     
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    Drum Stick Flowers Vadai

    Ingredients:

    4 cups drum stick flowers
    1/2 cup Thur dal
    1/2 cup channa dal
    2 - 4 green chilly
    2 - 4 red chilly
    1 sp sonf - fennel seeds
    1/2 sp asafetida
    2 tab sp fresh coriander leaves
    Salt
    Oil to fry

    Method:

    Soak all the dals for about 1 hour.
    Grind them with other ingredients, with out the flowers.
    Now cut the flowers and add with the ground dough.
    Heat oil in a pan and make vadas.
    Serve with any chutney.
     
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    Plantain Flower Parapu Usili

    Ingredients:

    1 fresh plantain flower (clean and cut and put it in thin butter milk)
    1 cup channa dal - soak in water for 30 min.
    1/2 cup thur dal - soak in water for 30 min.
    10 - 12 red chilly
    1 sp asafetida
    Oil to fry
    1 sp mustard seeds
    1 sp uduad dal
    1 sp turmeric powder
    Salt

    Method:

    Grind the dals and red chilly togather and keep aside.
    In a pan pour oil and make seasoning.
    Add cut flowers and salt. fry well.
    Add asafetida powder.
    Now add ground dal mixture and mix well.
    Sim the flame.
    Stir now and then.
    Let the curry become crisp.
    For this curry you have to pour more oil to make the curry tasty.
    This is a all time favourite curry that is 'parapu ussali' in my house.
    Remove the Ussalai serve with rasam rice.
    Good combination with rasam rice.

    Note: You can steam the ground dal to use less oil. You can use french beans or 'kothu avarai' for making this ussalai.
     
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    Plantain Flower Vadai

    Ingredients:

    1 fresh plantain flower - clean and cut - put in thin butter milk
    1 cup thur dal - soak for 30 min
    4 - 6 red chilly
    1 sp sonf
    salt
    oil to fry

    Method:

    Soak dal and grind with salt, sonf and red chilly.
    Cook cut plantain flowers.
    Add them in ground dal mixture; with out water.
    Mix well and make it a thick dough.
    If you feel it is watery you can add rice flour with that.
    Make vada and serve hot.
    Your delicious 'Vazhapoo vadai' is ready.
     
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    Plantain Flower vada 2

    Ingredients:

    1 fresh plantain flower - clean and cut - put in thin butter milk
    1 cup channa dal - soak for 30 min
    1 - 2 onion
    4 - 6 red chilly
    curry leaves
    1 sp sonf
    salt
    oil to fry

    Method:

    Soak dal and grind with salt, sonf and red chilly.
    In a pan pour some oil and fry cut onion and cut plantain flowers.
    Add them in ground dal mixture.
    Mix well and make it a thick dough.
    If you feel it is watery you can add rice flour with that.
    Make vada and serve hot.
    Your delicious 'Vazhapoo vadai' is ready.

    Note: If you want to make it like bonda, you can put it like that.
     
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    Plantain Flower Bonda

    Ingredients:

    1 fresh plantain flower - clean cut - put in thin butter milk
    1/2 coconut
    1/2 cup Puttu kadalai
    4 - 5 red chilly
    2 Onion
    4 - 5 Garlic
    2sp Sonf
    Salt
    Oil

    Method:
    Grind coconut, puttu kadalai, onion, garlic, red chilly, salt and sonf.
    Mix finely chopped plantain flowers.
    Make like balls and fry them in oil.
    Serve with chutney.
     
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    Plantain Flower pakoda

    Ingredients:

    1 plantain flower - clean - cut and put in thin buttermilk
    1 cup besan flour
    2 to 3 sp rice flour
    2 - 3 sp red chilly powder
    2 sp sonf - make it powder
    2 tab sp puttu kadalai - make it powder
    1/2 sp cooking soda
    Salt
    Oil to fry

    Method:

    Mix all the ingredients except plantain flowers.
    Make a thick dough and now mix finely chopped plantain flowers.
    In a pan heat oil and make pakodas.
    Fry them till golden brown.
    Remove from the fire and serve with chutney or tomato ketchup.
     
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    Plantain Flower Thuvial

    Ingredients:

    1 fresh plantain flower - clean - cut and put it in thin buttermilk.
    1/2 cup coconut
    4 tab Udad dal
    2 tab channa dal
    1 sp tamarind paste
    4 - 6 red chilly
    oil
    salt

    Method:

    In a pan pour some oil and fry red chilly and dals.
    Then add finely chopped plantain flowers.
    Grind all with coconut, tamarind paste and salt.
    Your yummy Plantain flower thuvial is ready.
    Serve with hot rice and ghee.
     
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    Veepam Poo Rasam / Neem Flower rasam

    It is a very good rasam. It is one of our all time favorite. I have already gave this recipe so I am giving the link here.

    Neem flower rasam

     

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