Raw vegetable banana pakoda

Certain vegetables add good taste to the pakodas along with usual onion.  In the south it is a very common feature of having variety of vegetables in pakodas like bhindi, potato, raw banana, baingan etc.

Ingredients:

2 Raw bananas, 2 green chillis, 1 onion, ½ tsp ajwain seeds (oregano), ½ cup besan (gram flour) salt to taste, ½ cup chopped coriander and a pinch of baking soda and oil for frying.

Preparation:

1. Wash, peel and make very thin slices of the bananas. 
2. Chop the onion and chillis finely. 
3. In a bowl put flour, chopped onion, chopped coriander, chillis, ajwain, baking soda, salt and little water to make a thin paste. 
4. Heat oil in a frying pan and dip each of the banana slices first into the flour batter and then drop into the oil and fry till golden brown.

Serve hot and crisp with sauce/chutney.

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