Name: Vazhakkai Podi | Raw Banana Powder recipe by Neeru Srikanth at BetterButter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 3
Ingredients: Plantain 1; Toor Dhal– ½ cup; Urad dhal – ½ cup; Tamarind – ½ lemon size; Hing cake – 2-3 small pieces; Dry Chili – 4; Oil – 1 tsp; Salt – to taste

Ingredients Serving: 3

Plantain 1
Toor Dhal– ½ cup
Urad dhal – ½ cup
Tamarind – ½ lemon size
Hing cake – 2-3 small pieces
Dry Chili – 4
Oil – 1 tsp
Salt – to taste

Instructions

Wash the raw banana and roast it in the fire directly over the gas.
Once all the sides are roasted, allow it to cool completely.
Peel the skin and chop it into small cubes.
Take a pan add oil, hing, drychili and roast. Keep this aside and let it cool completely.
In the same pan add toor dhal and fry for 2 mins. You will have some oil left from the previous fried items itself.
On top of the toor dhal, add Urad dhal,tamarind and fry until a nice aroma comes. Let this mix gets cooled.
Blend all the ingredients including salt and except the raw banana into a coarse dhal powder. Take out and keep it aside.
Add the chopped raw banana and grind for just once or twice until the raw banana gets crushed.
Mix it with the remaining dhal powder and give one more blend in the mixer and transfer it to a bowl for serving

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