Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, pazham nirachathu / stuffed plantains. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Today also i am posting another famous snack from Malabar "Pazham Nirachathu" / Stuffed Plantain. This is a very tasty and inevitable snack prepared for This snack is prepared by stuffing a mixture of coconut , sugar, cardamom, cashews , raisins and sugar. Slit open the plantains and stuff the filling.
Pazham Nirachathu / Stuffed Plantains is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Pazham Nirachathu / Stuffed Plantains is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have pazham nirachathu / stuffed plantains using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pazham Nirachathu / Stuffed Plantains:
- Prepare 3 - Ripe Kerala Plantain (not too ripe)
- Get 1 and 1/2 cups - Grated coconut
- Make ready 1/2 cup -Sugar (add more if you need)
- Get 5-6 - Cardamom pods crushed
- Take 2 Tbsp - Cashew nuts roughly chopped
- Prepare 2 Tbsp - Raisins
- Take 1 and 1/2 Tbsp - Ghee
- Take for frying - Oil
- Take 1/4 cup - All purpose flour/ Maida
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Prepare to make a thick paste - Water
Pazham nirachathu is a very tasty and inevitable snack in the Malabar iftar cuisine. Its prepared by stuffing ripe plantain with coconut - nut mixtures and then dipped in a Maida batter and fried. I can assure you that your family and Kids will love this snack. Pazham nirachathu is a very popular Malabar Snack,Made with plantain.banana stuffed with sweet coconut filling then fried. make a gap in the slit using fingers.take a portion of the coconut filling then gently fill coconut filling in to the slit,push the stuff inside the banana as much as you can.
Steps to make Pazham Nirachathu / Stuffed Plantains:
- Heat ghee in a frying pan, add the chopped cashew nuts until golden brown. Transfer them to a paper towel.
- Add the raisins, let them puff up like cute little balls. Remove them to the paper towel before they get charred. Keep aside.
- To this ghee add the grated coconut, saute for 2-3 minutes add sugar and crushed cardamom. Mix the cashew nuts and raisins and keep the filling aside.
- In a bowl mix maida, salt and water to make a thick paste to cover the slits of the banana.
- Now peel the plantains. Make a shallow slit lengthwise in the center of the plantain. The depth of the slit should be made until it reaches the center of the plantain.(Do not cut open the slit.). Now make another slit nearer to that, about 2 inches width. Remove the piece from the banana.
- Now using spoon, fill in the prepared coconut mixture into that gap. Press them tight using your fingers. Now cover it with the piece that you have removed from the plantain.Seal the gap with the maida paste. Repeat the same with the other plantains.
- Heat oil in a kadai/ non-stick pan for frying on a medium flame. Fry the stuffed plantains, until golden brown. Carefully flip the sides in between. Drain them on a kitchen towel. Sere it hot with a cup of tea / coffee..
- Notes : Do not use too ripe plantains, as it will absorb too much oil and hard to hold. Instead of coconut, we also use a mix of scrambled eggs, sugar, cardamom and nuts-raisins
Hot and crispy stuffed plaintain or nendrapazham which is a quite a popular recipe. It taste so delicious when served with hot chai. I already have a version of banana fritters and pazham pori in this blog. This one is a different version of it with stuffing. I love this version more than the old one.
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