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Raw Banana/Vazhaikai Varuval/Fry

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Raw banana 2 big ones
Onion 1 thinly sliced
Tomato 1 thinly sliced
Ginger garlic paste 1 spn
Fennel seeds powder 1 spn
Chili powder 1 spn
Turmeric 1/2 spn
Sambar powder 1 spn optional
Salt as required
Oil 3 spn
Mustard seeds 1 spn
Hing 1/2 spn
Curry leaves few

Peel the skin and cut the banana into slices..
Boil water..
Add the banana pieces with little salt..
Cook only 50%..
Drain the water and keep aside..

Heat oil in a pan..
Add mustard seeds..
Add hing..
Add curry leaves..
Add onions fry until brown..
Add ginger garlic paste fry until raw smell leaves..
Add spice powders saute again..
Add Tomatoes and salt..
Fry until mushy..
Add little water..
Cook until oil separate from gray..
Add the cooked banana pieces..
Flip until the masala coat well with banana..
Cook until banana becomes crispy..
Serve hot..

Wheat Banana Appam

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Banana 2 riped
Powdered Sugar 1 cup
Wheat flour 1 cup
Cardamom powder 1/2 spn or vanilla essence 1/2 spn
Milk 1/2 to 3/4 cup
Baking powder 1/4 spn
Ghee or melted butter 2 to 3 spn

In a mixing bowl add peeled banana..
Mash it with a fork..
Add sugar mix again..
Add wheat flour,baking powder, cardamom powder and milk..
Mix it into pancake consistency..
Take a paniyaram pan ..
Add little ghee in each portion..
Pour the batter..
Cook in medium flame for 1 minute..
Flip it.. cook it for one more minute..
Cook until both side turn golden brown..
Serve hot with honey…
Can make it a pancake too..

Banana Cake 🍰

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Banana 2
Eggs 3
Sugar 1 cup
Flour 1 cup
Baking powder 1 spn
Salt a pinch
Butter 1 stick
Vanilla essence 2 spn

Smash banana first
Add sugar and butter
Beat well until sugar melts
Add eggs beat well for 2 mins
Add flour , baking powder, salt, vanilla essence
Beat well until it turns into smooth

Preheat oven 350 deg
Grease baking tray with butter
Pour the batter into baking tray
Bake for 35 to 40 mins
After its done make it cool
Remove gently from the baking tray

Serve yummy yummy cake 🍰

Raw Banana Fry (Vazhaikai Varuval)

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Raw banana 2
Oil 3 spn
Chilli powder 2 spn
Fennel seeds powder 1 spn (sombu podi)
Garam masala 1 spn
Turmeric 1/2 spn
Hing 1/4 spn
Salt as required
Curry leaves few

Peel the banana skin and cut into cubes
Heat oil in a pan
Add all spice powders and salt
Fry in low flame for few mins
Add in diced raw banana
Add curry leaves
Mix well
Cover and cook in medium flame until 70% cooked
Open ad fry until it becomes golden brown and little crispy

Yummy banana fry ready to serve …

Banana Bread came out awesome in air fryer..

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All purpose flour 1/2 cup
Wheat flour 1/4 cup
Salt 1/8 spoon
Baking soda 1/4 spoon
Ripped banana 2
Egg 1
Sugar 1/2 cup
Oil 1/4 cup
Yogurt plain 1/4 cup
Vanilla essence 1/2 spoon
Brown sugar 2 spoon optional

Mix flours and salt baking soda keep aside.
Mash banana well
Add other ingredients one by one . Beat well. Add the flour mixture beat well.
Pour it in cake bowl
Air fryer settings 310 for 30 minutes.. check with tooth pick.. add 5 more minutes if needed..
Cool before serving
Yummy banana bread ready..

Banana Halwa

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Banana 5 to 6
Sugar 1 cup
Ghee 6 to 7 spn
Cornflour 2 spn optional
Water 2 spn
Cashew raisins 2 spn

Mix cornflour with 2 spn of water and keep aside..
Peel the banana and mash it well.. or put it in mixi and make it as fine paste..
Heat a pan
Add a spn of ghee
Roast cashew and raisins and keep aside..
In the same pan add mashed banana..
Cook well for 5 to 6 minutes until the banana color change..add sugar in this stage..
Let it melt completely..
Add the cornflour water mix well..
Add ghee little by little stir continuously..
At one stage ghee will separate from halwa..
Turn off and transfer into a serving bowl..
Corn flour is purely optional.. it gives a glossy texture to the halwa..
Use nonstick pan for good results..
Yummy banana halwa ready…

Raw banana chips in Airfryer

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Raw banana 1 thinly sliced
Chilli powder 1 spn
Salt as required
Hing 1/4 spn
Oil 2 spn (i used olive oil)

Mix all ingredients in a bowl..
Air fry 300 deg for 10 minutes..
Flip or shake it..
Keep again 300 deg for 10 more minutes..
Adjust temperature and time depends on your airfryer..
Crispy yummy banana fry ready..
Keeping medium temperature helps nice crispy texture.. otherwise it may burn..