How to clean vazhaipoo or banana flower

How to clean vazhaipoo (plaintain flower).

Here, in this post i will explain you how to clean vazhaipoo (banana flower). vazhaipoo is mostly used to prepare usili or vadai.

but we need to know how to clean the vazhaipoo before we used to prepare for dish..here we go with the simple steps:

note: scrub little salt in your hands so that it will avoid making ur hands black.

1. take a banana flower (vazhaipoo) and remove the outer skin

2. take one of the floret from the flower as shown below:

In the above picture, i marked which are the portions we need for cooking and which needs to be removed. Once it is done, the floret is cleaned and its now ready for cooking.

here i removed the stem like part and plastic like petal which we dont need at all..

here is the final cleaned vazhaipoo (banana flower)

Chop the cleaned veggie flower very finely and add it in diluted buttermilk to prevent from color changing.

thats it... you can now go ahead to prepare great dishes with this veggie flower..

Click here to see my recipe on vazhaipoo ( banana flower) paruppu usili

cookingly yours,
ram

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