Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop
Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, banana blossom appetizer or mochar chop. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

mochar chop or banana blossom appetizer As I was gently removing the outer bracts to extract the inner flowers, moments slowly drifted me towards my childhood days. It's basically mochar cutlet as we Bengalis generally identify the chop as dipped in a gram flour batter before frying it in oil. And whereas, the cutlet is nicely coated in breadcrumbs before deep frying in oil and this mochar chop is following the later one. Mocha is basically Banana Blossom or banana flower.

Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have banana blossom appetizer or mochar chop using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop:
  1. Take 1 cup banana flower(mocha) chopped and boiled
  2. Take 2 potatoes boiled
  3. Get 1 onion chopped
  4. Make ready 1 tsp ginger paste
  5. Make ready 1 tbsp gramflour
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp cornflour or maida
  7. Get 1 cup breadcrumbs
  8. Take 1 tbsp roasted peanuts
  9. Get 2 green chillies chopped
  10. Make ready 1/4 th tsp red chilli powder
  11. Get 1/4 th tsp garam masala
  12. Prepare 1 tbsp coriander chopped
  13. Get As needed oil for frying
  14. Take To taste salt and sugar

It is a flavourful and healthy Bengali delicacy and can be served as an appetizer with Kasundi or any chutney of your choice. Take a large plate, pour the boiled banana flower along with the boiled water and let it cool down completely. Mochar ghonto or stir fried banana blossoms is a classic bengali dish whereby the chopped blossoms are stir fried in hot oil with bay leafs, garam masala and handful of shredded coconut and chickpeas. The magnesium in the banana blossom makes it a 'happy' flower as it is believed to reduce anxiety and alleviate your mood.

Instructions to make Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop:
  1. Discard the purple petals of banana flower or mocha.Take out all the flowers inside each layer.Peel and remove the hard stick like stigma with round head and a transparent petal in each flower.Now chop the flowers finely and soak in a turmeric and salt solution for few hours or overnight.Discard this water if it tastes bitter.Pressure cook the chopped flowers with 1.5 cups water upto 2 whistles.Release pressure and strain out all water or dry up.Boil cubed potatoes and mash and mix both.
  2. Add ginger paste,gramflour,breadcrumbs,chopped green chillies,coriander,red chilli powder, garam masala and half crushed peanuts.Knead to form a dough.Heat 2 tbsp oil and lightly fry the onion.Add the mashed dough and toss all.Divide into round balls and flatten slightly.Make a slurry of cornflour.Dip each chop or cutlet in it and double coat in breadcrumbs.
  3. Refrigerate for an hour before frying.Heat 1.5 cups refined oil in a pan and deep fry the chops till golden brown.Serve hot delicious mochar chop/cutlet with tea or as a starter in parties with hot and sweet tomato sauce and sliced onion.

Mochar ghonto or stir fried banana blossoms is a classic bengali dish whereby the chopped blossoms are stir fried in hot oil with bay leafs, garam masala and handful of shredded coconut and chickpeas. The magnesium in the banana blossom makes it a 'happy' flower as it is believed to reduce anxiety and alleviate your mood. The 'Mochar Ghonto' is a traditional Bengali preparation, where the banana flowers are cooked along with potato and aromatic spices. Mochar Ghonto is a dry curry recipe and is often served along with steaming hot rice and ghee. Mocha or Banana Blossom is used as a nutritious food item in Southeast Asia.

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