Banana flower(poombe or balemoothi) chutney

Fresh banana flower

Banana flower is one of the healthy food source. It is known as Bale moothi or poombe in Kannada language.One can prepare many delicious preparations out of Banana flower.They are rich in fibre and tasty too.Chutney palya, pathrode(pudding) are the some of examples.To prepare banana flower chutney you have to cook it in direct fire.Those who have fire wood oven they can directly dip the banana flower  in burning charcoal till it is fully cooked.Those who don,t have this facility can keep whole banana flower in a container and pressure cook it for 2 signals.The taste will be different but the quality will be same. This chutney  suits good with dosa,rice,ganji(watery boiled rice),chapati,iddly,roti etc
Required ingredients for the preparation of Banana flower chutney
 Banana flower:1
Coconut grated :1 cup
Salt     :as per taste
Jaggery   :1 tsp
Tamarind:a pinch
Black gram(urad)dal:2tsp
Red chilly:1 OR pepper 1tsp
Oil :2tsp
Mustard seeds:1tsp
Garlic:2-3 leaves
Method of preparation of Banana flower chutney

• First cook banana flower as explained above.When it is cool peel the outer layers till you get the whitish inner part.
• Fry Black gram(urad)dal and chilly or pepper with little oil in pan till the dal turns golden brown.
• Grind cooked Banana flower,fried dal mixture,coconut gratings,jaggery,tamarind with little water to form smooth paste.
• Transfer the content in to serving bowl.Add salt to taste.
• Heat oil in a pan.Put mustard seeds and garlic leaves.When mustard seeds starts cracking and garlic well cooked put it over the  chutney and mix well.
• Banana flower chutney is ready to serve.