easy raw banana fry recipe | vazhakkai fry | balekai fry | aratikaya fry
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 15 minutes
- Total time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 3 Servings
- Category: Side Dish
- Cuisine: tamil
Ingredients
- 400 grams raw banana / balekai / vazhakkai / kacha kela / plantain
- ¼ tsp turmeric
- 1½ tsp sambar powder
- ¼ tsp pepper (crushed)
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard
- ½ tsp urad dal
- ½ tsp cumin / jeera
- ½ tsp fennel / saunf
- 1 dried red chilli
- pinch hing / asafoetida
- few curry leaves
- 2 tbsp water
Method
- firstly, peel the skin of 2 raw banana (approx. 400 grams)
- slice the raw banana to slight thick size. you can alternatively cut in cubes.
- add ¼ tsp turmeric, 1½ tsp sambar powder, ¼ tsp pepper and ½ tsp salt.
- coat the spices well to raw banana. keep aside.
- now in a large kadai heat 2 tbsp oil and splutter 1 tsp mustard, ½ tsp urad dal, ½ tsp cumin, ½ tsp fennel, 1 dried red chilli, pinch hing and few curry leaves.
- further, add spiced raw banana slices.
- stir-fry for 2 minutes till raw banana gets coated well with oil.
- spread the raw banana uniformly over kadai.
- now sprinkle 2 tbsp oil.
- cover and cook on medium flame for 10 minutes.
- stir occasionally to prevent raw banana from burning.
- now spread the raw banana again and cook for 2 minutes, without covering to make raw banana fry crisp.
- finally, serve raw banana fry / vazhakkai fry with hot steamed rice as a side dish with rasam.
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.