Oriya Kakharu Phula Bhaja or Pumpkin Flower Fritters Recipe is a popular Odissi traditional recipe of Odisha and West Bengal. These pumpkin flower fritters is an easy and quick recipe.
Kakharu Phula Bhaja
We eat all parts of the pumpkin plantstem as kakharu danka rai, fruit kakharu in many items like dalma, bhaja, leaves in rai patra poda and flower as pithau inOdia cuisine. The fries recipe of pumpkin flower serve as a tasty side dish. So do try this easy recipe in pumpkin flower season.
Equipment
- 1 Iron or Non-Stick Tawa
Ingredients
- 10 pcs pumpkin blossoms(Kakharu Phula)
- 1 cup rice (Arua chaula)
- 1 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
- 1 tsp Green Chilli (Kancha Lanka)
- 4 cloves garlic (rasuna)
- 1 tsp ginger (ada)
- 1 tsp turmeric powder (haladi gunda)
- 2-3 tsp Cooking oil
- salt to taste (luna)
Instructions
- Soak rice in water for about half-an-hour.
- Remove the stem, ovary and all inner parts of pumpkin blossoms.
- Keep whole petal of each flower intact.
- Then wash them thoroughly.
- Then prepare the rice paste with soaked rice , cumin seeds, garlic, green chili and ginger with a small amount of water to a grinder/ mixer. Grind it to a coarse paste like dosa batter.
- Transfer the paste into a container and add turmeric powder and salt to taste, mix well. Keep it aside.
- Heat the iron tawa or non-stick tawa, Spread ro sprinkle little oil to the tawa.
- Dip the flowers one by one in the batter and sallow fry the flowers on medium flame.
- Sprinkle oil in the upper side of the flowers in the tawa.
- After one minute turn them upside down and fry.
- Allow all the flowers to turn golden brown and crispy.
- Your Kakharu Phula Bhaja is ready to be served as side dish