Thursday, May 3, 2007

Plantain( Artikaya, Kacha Kela) Barada

Ingredients

Chena Besan (Lental flour) 2 cups
Water 2 cups
Onion 1 big diced into 1 inch pieces
Plantain 1 dice into 1 inch cubes
Red chili powder to taste
Salt to taste
Coriander 1 cup finely chopped
Oil 4-5 table spoons
Jeera seeds ½ a teaspoon
Mustard seeds ½ a teaspoon
Curry leaves 5-6
Hing 1 pinch

  1. Heat a wide pan, non stick preferably, add oil, as the oil get hot add Cumin seeds, mustard seeds and curry leaves, let the mustard seeds crackle, then add chopped onion and plantain cubes ,fry them till the plantain ½ cooked .
  2. Now to the above pan add measured water, salt and red chili powder. Let it boil.
  3. Once you see the water is boiling, sprinkle Chena basan flour ,cover the pan with a lid and should not stir at all ,till almost all the liquid is gone.
  4. Wait till almost all the liquid is gone from the pan, you should see only very little liquid at the bottom of the pan, now you can stir. After you stir, the brada will look like small balls much like chena besan crumbles.
  5. Then put the lid again and let it steam for 5 min or till the raw chena besan flavor is gone.
  6. Finally finish the dish with finely chopped coriander (cilantro) for garnish and most of all great cilantro flavor.

3 comments:

$ha$h! said...
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$ha$h! said...

Thank you for the excellent dish..i was supposed to ask my mother abt it...but I din have access to her at the time of my cooking..so i searched on the net and got urs...
ne ways am including a lil variation here...am gonna use potato instead of plantain like my mother's style..

Unknown said...

many manmy thanks for your plaintain barada....i wil surely try it..
i would be more happy if u can tell me if u know the recipe for cucumber(dosakaya) barada
thank u