Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pazham nirachathu / stuffed plantains. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pazham Nirachathu / Stuffed Plantains is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Pazham Nirachathu / Stuffed Plantains is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pazham nirachathu / stuffed plantains using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pazham Nirachathu / Stuffed Plantains:
- Take 3 - Ripe Kerala Plantain (not too ripe)
- Prepare 1 and 1/2 cups - Grated coconut
- Take 1/2 cup -Sugar (add more if you need)
- Prepare 5-6 - Cardamom pods crushed
- Make ready 2 Tbsp - Cashew nuts roughly chopped
- Get 2 Tbsp - Raisins
- Take 1 and 1/2 Tbsp - Ghee
- Get for frying - Oil
- Take 1/4 cup - All purpose flour/ Maida
- Take 1 pinch salt
- Make ready to make a thick paste - Water
Steps to make Pazham Nirachathu / Stuffed Plantains:
- Heat ghee in a frying pan, add the chopped cashew nuts until golden brown. Transfer them to a paper towel.
- Add the raisins, let them puff up like cute little balls. Remove them to the paper towel before they get charred. Keep aside.
- To this ghee add the grated coconut, saute for 2-3 minutes add sugar and crushed cardamom. Mix the cashew nuts and raisins and keep the filling aside.
- In a bowl mix maida, salt and water to make a thick paste to cover the slits of the banana.
- Now peel the plantains. Make a shallow slit lengthwise in the center of the plantain. The depth of the slit should be made until it reaches the center of the plantain.(Do not cut open the slit.). Now make another slit nearer to that, about 2 inches width. Remove the piece from the banana.
- Now using spoon, fill in the prepared coconut mixture into that gap. Press them tight using your fingers. Now cover it with the piece that you have removed from the plantain.Seal the gap with the maida paste. Repeat the same with the other plantains.
- Heat oil in a kadai/ non-stick pan for frying on a medium flame. Fry the stuffed plantains, until golden brown. Carefully flip the sides in between. Drain them on a kitchen towel. Sere it hot with a cup of tea / coffee..
- Notes : Do not use too ripe plantains, as it will absorb too much oil and hard to hold. Instead of coconut, we also use a mix of scrambled eggs, sugar, cardamom and nuts-raisins
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