Dates Ladoo ~A Blog Hop & An Award

Variety is the spice of life and Blog Hop adds to it.

As this is where you try out dishes from your partner’s blog to suit your palate the idea is Radhika’s brain child.

How does Blog Hop add to variety? Well I go through my partner’s posts in greater detail so in this sense I am coming to know newer likeminded people. All of us are connected through our love for food and serve a better variety with love.

Raw Banana Paratha

Back to basics is running breads and is being hosted by PJ. And I wanted to send something. What better than a raw banana paratha. I know this is one of my shortest posts but today is the last day and I have left it for the last possible moment.

Ingredients:

3 cups atta

2 tsp jeera/ cumin seeds powder

2 tsp coriander powder

2 tsp red chilli powder(adjust as per taste )

1 tsp  haldi

1 tsp kalonji(optional)

1 raw banana

Coriander

Oil

Salt

Method:

1.     Peel and boil the banana in the cooker for 2 whistles.

2.     Let it cool completely. Now grate it.

3.     Mix all the ingredients using a teaspoon or two of oil with a little water to form a smooth but elastic dough.

4.     Let it rest for atleast half an hour.

5.     Make balls and roll out into parathas. ( I got 16)

6.     Heat a griddle/ tava and fry the parathas on both sides. Use oil if you need generally I use oil for every alternate one.

7.     Serve with curds, tomato chutney.

Sending to Back to Basics

And veggie /fruit of the month

Archana

Raw Banana/Plantain Palya

Amma used to make this veggie for us out of raw bananas.

 I do not remember what all went on it all I remember is eating this delicious raw banana cubes with curd rice.

In my attempt to recreate this magic I tried making big cubes out of my raw bananas .  There were about 2 cups of cubes.

Raw Banana/Plantain Curry

This month I have two events running both close to my heart.
Back to roots where you can repost your own recipe with new pictures and send it to me and the other is Priya’s Veggie/Fruit of the month-Raw Bananas hosted by me.

Raw Bananas or plantains as they are called are high in starch content. So they can replace potatoes in most cases. Get the hint?