Cauliflower Leaves /Stem Pakora ( Fritters)

Are you lot wondering what cauliflower leaves hold back like?? Or may survive where practise nosotros acquire cauliflower leaves from?? Where are they available??
Well, you lot don't choose equally good far to look..
Remember, every fourth dimension you lot choose domicile a caput of cauliflower to cook, at that topographic point are those greenish things that they sit down on.. Those are cauliflower leaves. Yes, the really same ones that nosotros take together with discard without whatever farther thought. This recipe that I am bringing to you lot today is 1 that I learnt from my mother. My woman bring upwards does non waste materials anything! Absolutely nothing! No sir. And that is what she has inculcated inwards us too.. I promise I tin give the sack inculcate that inwards my children too.. The basis would definitely a ameliorate house if nosotros didn't waste materials together with thus much! Again coming dorsum to my mother... We are Konkanis which agency that nosotros belong to a community where nosotros don't waste materials whatever business office of whatever sort of attain equally long equally it is edible . We volition uncovering some way to purpose it.

This pakora is super uncomplicated to brand together with super delicious. It is pan-fried amongst only a petty chip of oil. You tin give the sack of class deep fry it if you lot wish. I never have. It comes out really prissy when pan-fried. For an fifty-fifty healthier option, you lot tin give the sack fry it inwards an appe pan. That comes out good too..

Servings: makes roughly 6-8 medium sized pakoras

Ingredients:

Leaves from 1 medium cauliflower head: roughly roughly 1 cup, chopped.
Rice flour: 1/4 cup( may non necessitate 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 together with tender business office 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.

Do NOT add together H2O spell mixing. After mixing well, using moisture hands, pinch a lemon-sized business office of the mixture together with form it into a pattie.

Place it on a plate. Make such patties amongst all the remainder of the mixture.

Heat ii tbsp fossil oil inwards a frying pan/skillet on medium heat. Add the patties to the skillet together with ready on low-medium flaming until it begins to plow golden brown, roughly 4-5 mins.

Flip them all together with ready on the other side for some other 3-4 mins. It should survive slightly on the crisp side.

Serve hot amongst rice together with dal/rasam or swallow it only similar that amongst coriander/mint chutney.

Enjoy. I am bringing this to Saucy Saturdays.

Cooking made easy:

You tin give the sack brand this pakora amongst close leafy greens. The fob to making this is non adding water. Greens when chopped together with 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 form the dough.

Tip for Healthy living:

Eating greens is a slap-up way to acquire several essential nutrients into your body.Green leafy vegetables are non exclusively a slap-up rootage of iron, folate, vitamins K , it is also a slap-up rootage of calcium!They provide the much needed dietary fiber together with assistance prevent/control weather condition similar diabetes, blood pressure, obesity together with 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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