Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, banana blossom appetizer or mochar chop. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Serve the hot mochar chop / banana blossom appetizer with kasundi (Bengali mustard sauce) or any sauce of your choice. And whereas, the cutlet is nicely coated in breadcrumbs before deep frying in oil and this mochar chop is following the later one. Mocha is basically Banana Blossom or banana flower.
Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook banana blossom appetizer or mochar chop using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop:
- Take 1 cup banana flower(mocha) chopped and boiled
- Take 2 potatoes boiled
- Make ready 1 onion chopped
- Take 1 tsp ginger paste
- Take 1 tbsp gramflour
- Take 2 tbsp cornflour or maida
- Make ready 1 cup breadcrumbs
- Make ready 1 tbsp roasted peanuts
- Get 2 green chillies chopped
- Make ready 1/4 th tsp red chilli powder
- Make ready 1/4 th tsp garam masala
- Take 1 tbsp coriander chopped
- Make ready As needed oil for frying
- Get To taste salt and sugar
Banana flower is known as mocha in Bengali which is very unique in nature. Mochar Chop (Banana Blossom Cutlet) Posted by Rinku Sinha Burma It is a flavourful and healthy Bengali delicacy and can be served as an appetizer with Kasundi or any chutney of your choice. Mochar chop or Banana Blossom Croquette is a delicacy from the land of Bengal.
Instructions to make Banana Blossom Appetizer or Mochar Chop:
- Discard the purple petals of banana flower or mocha.Take out all the flowers inside each layer.Peel and remove the hard stick like stigma with round head and a transparent petal in each flower.Now chop the flowers finely and soak in a turmeric and salt solution for few hours or overnight.Discard this water if it tastes bitter.Pressure cook the chopped flowers with 1.5 cups water upto 2 whistles.Release pressure and strain out all water or dry up.Boil cubed potatoes and mash and mix both.
- Add ginger paste,gramflour,breadcrumbs,chopped green chillies,coriander,red chilli powder, garam masala and half crushed peanuts.Knead to form a dough.Heat 2 tbsp oil and lightly fry the onion.Add the mashed dough and toss all.Divide into round balls and flatten slightly.Make a slurry of cornflour.Dip each chop or cutlet in it and double coat in breadcrumbs.
- Refrigerate for an hour before frying.Heat 1.5 cups refined oil in a pan and deep fry the chops till golden brown.Serve hot delicious mochar chop/cutlet with tea or as a starter in parties with hot and sweet tomato sauce and sliced onion.
It is also known as Banana flower croquette which is an authentic recipe of Bengal. Banana flower is known as mocha in Bengali which is very unique in nature. Even when we talk about mocha, we (Bengalis) become sentimental as this vegetable is being cooked from ages. "Mocha" is the bengali name of "banana blossom". "Mocha" is the reason, my Ma often had nasty black stains on her hands. She hardly bothered to apply oil on her hands before cutting it. Unlike me, it was never a task for her.
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