Recipe- Sweet And Crispy Rips Banana Pakoda

Is this a dessert or a snack? or a starter? It is sweet in taste, crispy outside & soft inside. Haha!! So for foodies, it is just super delicious food. If you consume it just before your main course food then it may be considered as a starter but if you consume it after the main course then it is a dessert. I love to eat those pakodas as a light meal in the evening so for me, it is a snack. I used to say this banana based taler bora (Sweet palm fritters) because it is almost similar to taler bora in taste.

Ingredients

4 ripe banana (kathali kela preferable)
120 gm rice flour
30 gm suji/semolina
½ cup sugar
1.5 teaspoon fennel/saunf
2 whole cardamoms, (only seeds)
Pinches of salt
Water as needed
2.5 tablespoons refined vegetable oil

Method

- Mash (use a blender) ripe banana, add rice flour, suji, salt, roughly crushed fennel & cardamom seeds, sugar powder and mix all

- Now add water and make a perfect batter (not so thin and not so thick for making pakoda)

- Then heat oil in a kadai (Indian cooking pot) and pour small piece of batter directly into the hot oil

- Cook each pakoda properly till it turn into golden brown over a medium flame.