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Find results on Seekweb Common in South-East Asian cuisine, banana blossoms (aka banana flower or banana heart) are tear-shaped maroon or purplish flowers hanging at the end of banana clusters. They can be eaten raw or cooked and are used primarily in salads, curries or soups. Fresh banana blossoms are available at most Asian groceries.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have how to prepare banana blossom/flower using 2 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make How to Prepare Banana Blossom/Flower:
- Get Banana Blossom
- Prepare Vinegar or Juice from Two lemons
In Brazil, its culinary use is more concentrated in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais where it is called Mangará. Banana blossom is something that is ignored these days. I have heard mom and grandma discussing that there were times when they used to make it a habit of preparing a dish with banana blossom on a weekly basis and nowadays neither is it freely available nor do people have the time to prepare it. Prepare it does not mean the actual cooking process.
Steps to make How to Prepare Banana Blossom/Flower:
- Wash the entire blossom.
- Start opening the outer leaves one by one. Under each leaf you will find a group of long pale yellow flowers.
- Keep repeating the first 2 steps: open the leaf, collect flowers, discard leaf. While peeling, the leaves will get softer and paler in colour and the flowers will get smaller til all that's left is this.
- Put in a bowl, add cold water, lemon juice or vinegar to avoid discolouring.
- Pick a flower, open, by pulling the feathery plastic like petal back, you'll find the matchstick like stem inside the flower. You have to remove it, otherwise your blossoms will be hard n bitter.
- Open the flower by gently rubbing the end of it in between your fingers and gently push the petals back. Do this for all that you can. The flowers closer to the heart will get smaller and smaller and will get harder and harder to clean. When you can't clean anymore, just separate the flowers.
- Discard these…
- The Flowers.. ready to use in cooking or as Salad.
How To Prepare Banana Flower: Blossom should be firm with petals firmly closed and of a maroon color. Pull off the pistils and the outside petals. Allow to soak overnight in salt water before cooking. This will keep it from turning brown and bitter in your recipe. When ready to cook, squeeze out excess water and pull apart the skinny florets. banana flower recipes
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