Vazzaipoo Thengai Pulippu Peratal

Vazzaipoo or Banana Flower as mentioned before in few of my recipes has so much of medicinal properties. It is a real good additive to a women's nutrition chart. Pealing them of and cleaning them might be a time consuming task but, the end result is a nutritious one. The dish which am going to open up is a quick, tasty, minimal spices. Can be eaten along with rice, any form of bread or instead can be eaten as such.

Serves 4
Ingredients:
Vazzaipoo/Banana flower - 1 medium
Coconut grated/Thengai thiruval - 3tbs
Mustard - 1tbs
Asafatida -1
Green chilly -1
Curry leaves - 1 arc
Lemon - small
Salt - 1 tbs
Water - 100ml
Oil - 1tbs
Water to soak - 250ml

Method/Vidhiee:
1. Rub hands with any oil to avoid grease of flower sticking your hand.
    Peel of the outer layer of banana flower pluck the long stretching flowers.
2. Put them in water or if you have buttermilk put them in. This is to avoid oxidation.
3. Take each flower pluck of the bulb structured string inside each flower and throw off. You may find one or two max.
4. Next you can find a transparent small feather like sheet down each flower. Pluck it  and throw it.
5. After doing the same process for each flower. Chop finely and put them back inside water.
6. Chop off green chillies and cut open the lemon into 2.
7. In a pan add asafatida, splutter mustard seeds, curry leaves, green chillies.
8. Saute them well. Now add the finely chopped Vazzaipoo or banana flower after squeezing of water.
9. Saute them well add water. Boil the chopped flower till it turns soft.
10. Let the water evaporate completely.
11. Add salt and mix well.
12. Add coconut over the vazzaipoo mix well.
13. Make sure water is completely evaporated. Squeeze the lemon.

Mix well and serve hot!!

Apple Mango Milkshake

Usual Mango milkshake but quick and addition of few new ingredients. Check out.

Serves 4
Ingredients
Mango fruit/Mambazyam/Paka amm - 1 big
Apple - 1
Honey - 4tbs
Raw pasteurized milk - 1/2ltr chilled
Dalchini powder/Cinnamon powder - 1 pinch (Optional)
Ice cubes as preferred

Method/Vidhiee:
1. Take out the pulp of mango and put them in blender.
2. Peal the skin of apple and cut them into cubes. De-seed them and put them along with mango.
3. Blend them in the blender till they get thick.
4. Now add milk and honey.
5. Whip them well in blender leaving few interval seconds so that froth forms.
6. Add ice cubes and dalchini pinch.Whip twice.

Serve chill during hot afternoons. Its a heavy milkshake which would keep you on for at least 3-4hrs.

Pomo Dates MilkShake

The scorching heat of Chennai made me to search for options than the regular juices and milkshakes.

Serves 4
Ingredients:
Pomegranate/Madulai/Anar - 1 big
Brown seedless dates/Perunchpazam - 4
Honey - 3tbs
Water - 250ml
Chilled pasteurized milk - 1/2ltr ( You can add normal fat milk and not full fat milk. If you prefer low fat milk then please do not add water)
Crushed ice cubes - as preferred

Method/ Vidhiee:
1. Cut open the pomo and deseed the pomos from the skin.
2. Caution be careful of not having a single white skin of pomo or it would turn bitter milkshake :)
3. In a blender add the pomos and dates.
4. Run them so that they get crushed.
5. Add water and honey. Blend again.
6. If you do not prefer the small grains of pomo then strain them and add again to blender.
7. If, you are ok with the grains then next process is to add the milk.
8. Whip the mixture leaving few seconds interval so that froth forms.
9. Add the crushed ice cubes or normal cubes and blend again.
Yummy Pomo Date Milkshake is ready. Enjoy it :)

1st Anniv :)

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