Recipes - Banana -Grape Pulissery
- Ashwathi Appukuttan
- Kerala / Mangalore
Ingredients:
1 Ripe Nendran Banana
¼ cup grapes (black)
¾ cup grated coconut
½ cup curd
2 green chillies
¼ ” ginger
½ tsp. turmeric powder
1 tsp. cumin (jeera)
Salt as per taste
1 cup water
Seasoning:
2 tbsp. coconut oil
1 tsp. mustard
1 long red chilly
½ tsp. methi seeds (fenugreek)
Few curry leaves
Method:
Peel and cut banana into 1” pieces. Grind coconut along with cumin,1 green chilly and small piece of ginger into a fine paste. Slightly whip curd in the blender and set aside.
In a thick bottomed vessel cook banana pieces and grapes along with 1 green chilly, little chopped ginger, turmeric powder, salt and water. Cook it on medium flame.
When banana is cooked and soft, add ground coconut paste and stir for 2 minutes on low flame. Now add curd, stir for a minute and put off the flame.
Seasoning:
In a pan heat coconut oil and splutter mustard. Brown methi seeds, broken red chilly and curry leaves. Pour this over the banana pulisseri.
Serve hot with brown or white rice.
Note: Pulissery could be made with Pumpkin, Lady Finger, Mango and Brinjal.