Banana Flower Tikki (Mochar Boda)

Ingredients.

1. One full banana flower
2. Medium sized potato-4 nos(boiled and mashed)
3. Grated ginger-1tsp
4. Turmeric powder-1 tsp
5. Roasted cumin powder-1tsp
6. Chat masala powder- 1/2 tsp
7. Amchur powder-1tsp
8. Roasted peanut(broken into small pieces)- 2tsp
9. Coconut powder-2tsp
10.Garam masala powder-1/2tsp
11. Salt to taste.
12. Refined oil for shallow frying.
13.Green chillies chopped-1/2tsp

Method

First clean and boil the banana flower adding 1tsp salt and 1/2tsp turmeric powder in a pressure cooker for 2whistles.Strain and squeeze all the water content from the banana flower.
Add all the ingredients except oil to the banana flower.shape them into tikki form and shallow fry in a medium to low flame.Turn over and cook it both sides until brown in colour.Serve hot with chutney or sauce and sprinkle some chat masala(optional) on tikkis.

Note-Banana flower is generally a little bitter in taste,so there may be slight bitterness in the final product.Its advisable to know the proper way of cleaning the banana flower first.Will elaborate on this in my blog