Crisp at the edges and tender through the middle, Raw Banana Fry (Aratikaya Vepudu) is a Indian main made with simple everyday ingredients in about 25 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 10 minutes
  • Cook time: 15 minutes
  • Total time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 4
  • Category: Main Course
  • Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

  • 3 Raw banana
  • 2 pinches turmeric
  • ¼ tsp mustard
  • ½ tsp Cumin (or jeera)
  • 1 tsp. Urad dal
  • 2 to 3 Green chilies (or ½ tsp red chilli powder)
  • ½ inch ginger
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1 large onion (sliced)
  • 1 sprig curry leaves
  • ½ to ¾ tsp garam masala powder (or as needed)
  • 2 tbsp Oil

Method

Preparation

  1. Wash and peel the skin of banana. Halve it vertically. Slice and add them to a bowl of water.
  2. In a blender, make a fine paste of ginger, garlic and chillis. keep it aside for later use.
  3. To the same jar add onions and coarsely pulse. Set this aside separately.

How to Make Raw Banana Fry

  1. Add oil to a heavy bottom pan and heat it.
  2. Add mustard, cumin, and dal. Fry till the dal turns golden. Then add chili ginger garlic paste. Fry until the ginger garlic turns slightly golden.
  3. Add drained raw banana slices to the pan and sprinkle turmeric.
  4. On a medium high flame, fry till they are almost cooked. To prevent burning, stir constantly. If needed add little more more
  5. Reduce the flame to medium and sprinkle salt. Fry till soft, cooked and tender.
  6. Add the crushed chilli onions. Fry on high till the onions begin to caramelize or brown. Stir constantly.
  7. Sprinkle gram masala and red chili powder if using. Fry on a low flame till they firm up.
  8. Serve raw banana fry hot with rice and rasam or sambar.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.