RAW BANANA FRY (BALEKAI RAVA FRY in Kannada)

Raw banana fry is an easy side dish that tastes delicious. This is a mildly spiced South Indian style banana fry made with unripe bananas or plantains and a few spices. A no onion no garlic and vegan recipe that makes for an excellent side dish with South Indian meals. This has several healthy nutrients too.

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Ingredients:

· Raw Banana

· Tamarind

· Chili powder

· Turmeric powder

· Hing

· Salt

· Rava

· Oil

Method:

· Wash the raw bananas and cut into halves. Peel the skin and the cut the top and bottom portion. Cut the raw banana into slices.

· You can make 4 slices from each banana.

· Add tamarind, hing and salt to the raw banana slices and keep it aside for 10-12 minutes.

· Take a small plate, mix rava, turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt.

· Heat a frying pan and spread oil on it.

· Coat the sliced raw banana in rava and arrange the rava coated slices on the frying pan one by one.

· Spread oil from the sides of the pan. Cover and cook on medium flame.

· In between, sprinkle 1 tsp water by hand over the raw banana slices, cover and cook to speed up cooking.

· After few minutes, flip to the other side, spread oil once again and fry for few more minutes.

· You can poke the centre with a knife or spoon, to check whether the raw banana is cooked and if it gets cut easily then it’s done.

· Enjoy this with any curry of your choice as an accompaniment.