Are you lot wondering what cauliflower leaves await like?? Or may survive where exercise nosotros acquire cauliflower leaves from?? Where are they available??
Well, you lot don't choose likewise far to look..
Remember, every fourth dimension you lot choose abode a caput of cauliflower to cook, at that topographic point are those dark-green things that they sit down on.. Those are cauliflower leaves. Yes, the real same ones that nosotros take away as well as discard without whatsoever farther thought. This recipe that I am bringing to you lot today is 1 that I learnt from my mother. My woman rear does non waste product anything! Absolutely nothing! No sir. And that is what she has inculcated inwards us too.. I promise I tin inculcate that inwards my children too.. The globe would definitely a amend house if nosotros didn't waste product then much! Again coming dorsum to my mother... We are Konkanis which way that nosotros belong to a community where nosotros don't waste product whatsoever utilisation of whatsoever form of orbit equally long equally it is edible . We volition uncovering some way to utilisation it.
This pakora is super unproblematic to brand as well as super delicious. It is pan-fried alongside only a piddling fighting of oil. You tin of course of didactics deep fry it if you lot wish. I never have. It comes out real overnice when pan-fried. For an fifty-fifty healthier option, you lot tin fry it inwards an appe pan. That comes out good too..
Servings: makes or then 6-8 medium sized pakoras
Ingredients:
Leaves from 1 medium cauliflower head: roughly or then 1 cup, chopped.
Rice flour: 1/4 cup( may non bespeak all).
Onion: 1 small, chopped ( optional)
Chickpea flour( besan): 1 tbsp
Red chilli powder: 1/2 tsp
Asofoetida: a pinch
Salt: 1/4 tsp
Oil: ii tbsp for frying
Method:
Wash the cauliflower leaves as well as tender utilisation of the stems thoroughly. Finely chop it. Add it to a bowl.
To this add together chopped onion (if you lot wish), chick pea flour, chili powder, salt, Asofoetida and only plenty rice flour to bind the mixture together into a ball.
Place it on a plate. Make such patties alongside all the residue of the mixture.
Heat ii tbsp petroleum inwards a frying pan/skillet on medium heat. Add the patties to the skillet as well as gear upward on low-medium open fire until it begins to plow golden brown, or then 4-5 mins.
Flip them all as well as gear upward on the other side for some other 3-4 mins. It should survive slightly on the crisp side.
Serve hot alongside rice as well as dal/rasam or consume it only similar that alongside coriander/mint chutney.
Enjoy. I am bringing this to Saucy Saturdays.
Cooking made easy:
You tin brand this pakora alongside close leafy greens. The fox to making this is non adding water. Greens when chopped as well as tabular array salt is added, give out water. This helps moisten the dough. If nosotros add together to a greater extent than water, nosotros volition non survive able to cast the dough.
Tip for Healthy living:
Eating greens is a dandy way to acquire several essential nutrients into your body.Green leafy vegetables are non exclusively a dandy beginning of iron, folate, vitamins K , it is also a dandy beginning of calcium!They provide the much needed dietary fiber as well as assist prevent/control weather condition similar diabetes, blood pressure, obesity as well as high-cholesterol.
References:
http://www.joybauer.com/food-articles/leafy-green-vegetables.aspx
http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthy-kitchen-11/leafy-greens-rated
http://www.vegetarian-nutrition.info/updates/benefits-of-green-leafy-vegetables.php
Food for thought:
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