Name: Lentils and Plantain Flower Kolas recipe by Subhashni Venkatesh at BetterButter
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: Chopped Plantain / Banana flowers 2 cups; Finely chopped onions 1 cup; Finely chopped green chillies 2 tea spoons; Grated Ginger 1 tea spoon; Bengal gram / Kadalai Paruppu 2 cups; Toor dhal 2 tbsp; Urad dal 1 tbsp; Fennel seeds / Saunf / Sombu 2 tea spoons; Red Chilies 3; Salt to taste; Finely chopped curry leaves and coriander leaves; Oil 3 tbsp

ABOUT Lentils and Plantain Flower Kolas RECIPE

The healthy Plantain flowers, when mixed with soaked lentils and spices, give awesome taste. Usually, these Kolas are deep fried where as here I have shallow fried them by making them in Appe pan to make it more healthy.

Ingredients Serving: 6

Chopped Plantain / Banana flowers 2 cups
Finely chopped onions 1 cup
Finely chopped green chillies 2 tea spoons
Grated Ginger 1 tea spoon
Bengal gram / Kadalai Paruppu 2 cups
Toor dhal 2 tbsp
Urad dal 1 tbsp
Fennel seeds / Saunf / Sombu 2 tea spoons
Red Chilies 3
Salt to taste
Finely chopped curry leaves and coriander leaves
Oil 3 tbsp

Instructions

The individual flowers should be taken out and the projected part of the flower should be rubbed gently.
Then remove the stamen part of the each flower out.
Then collect the flowers and chop them finely and put them in buttermilk water.
Add 1 tbsp of buttermilk in water and this prevents the vegetable from becoming black
Soak all the dhals given and red chilies in water for two hours. Drain the water and grind them very coarsely with required salt.
Add the chopped onions, Vazhaipoo, Green chillies, ginger, fennel seeds, coriander leaves and curry leaves and mix well.
Heat the Appe Pan (Kuzhipaniyara Pan) and fill each crater with half tea spoon of oil and spread it well.
Take lemon size balls of the Vada mix and place them one by one in the Appe pan.
Let them get fried well on all sides in medium flame. Just roll them around to enable them to get evenly fried.
If needed sprinkle some oil. Once they become golden brown balls take them out and serve hot.

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