Banana Fritters / Pazham Pori

This banana fritter is well known in Kerala by the name “Pazham Pori”. Its everyones favourite snack and especially in my house. It gets over within few minitues of its preparation no need to invite anyone to come and have it. All the members will be in the kitchen only during its preparation.

For this recipe we need riped plantians, which are dipped in batter and deep-fried. Lets proceed with our recipe here.

Ingredients:

2 nos. Ripe Banana plantains

½ cup All pourpose flour or Maida

2tspn Sugar

1/3^rd tspn Turmeric powder

1 tspn Cummin seeds or Jeera

Salt as per the taste

1cup to 3/4^th cup Water for making the batter

Oil for deep frying

Method:

 1.   Peel the bananas and slice them lengthwise into half and then slice each half into thin slice.

 2.   In a mixing bowl add all purpose flour, sugar, turmeric powder, cumin seeds, salt and water. Blend it nicely with the help of water nicely to form a semi thick batter like of idli batter.

 3.   Heat the oil in kadai for deep frying.

 4.   Once the oil is hot, dip the slices of banana in the batter to evenly coat them and then put them in hot oil. Fry them until they become golden brown in color.

 5.   Remove them from the oil and keep them on kitchen paper towel to    remove any excess oil.
 6.   Serve them hot at teatime, Iftar or any occasion.

NOTE:

• For this recipe always use Kerala bananas (Nendra pazham).
• If the bananas are too ripe then reduce the quantity of sugar otherwise the plantains will start sticking to each other while frying which becomes very difficult for frying them.
• Slice the bananas depending upon the size of its thickness and length.