Mocha'r Paturi ( Banana flowers steamed in banana leaves)

Mochar Paturi

A banana plant is one of the most useful plants whose every part is packed with nutrition and health benefits. This humble plant, with its flower, stem, fruit and leaf, can be consumed in different ways for overall wellness. We Bengali's too love preparing delicious recipes using different parts of the plant.

The recipe which I am writing here is made using the flowers and leaves of the banana plant.

Mochar Paturi( Banana flowers wrapped in banana leaves and steamed) is an traditional Bengali recipe where a parcel is made with the help of the leaves of the banana plant stuffed with banana flowers and thereby steamed. While there are several recipes to make an paturi, I have followed an easy yet extremely delicious for your taste buds.

Recipe

Ingredients:

1 full banana blossom

1 big size banana leaf

1 cup grated coconut

2 tablespoon mustard paste(black and yellow seeds mixed)

2 tablespoon mustard oil

1 teaspoon sugar

2 teaspoon green chillis paste

1 teaspoon turmeric powder

Salt to taste

How to cook:

Clean the banana florets of the entire blossom and chop it finely. Now add salt and turmeric powder to half litre water and boil the chopped banana flowers in it. Once boiled, squeeze out the water and keep it aside. Cut the banana leaf into 2-3 squares for making the parcels and keep them aside.

Now a big bowl add the squeezed flowers, mustard paste, grated coconut, green chillis paste, turmeric powder, sugar, mustard oil and salt to taste. You can add chopped chillis as well if you like spicy foods. Mix well. Now brush a little mustard oil in the banana leaves one by one and place small portions of the mixture in the leaves. Fold the sides and make a parcel by tying with threads. Now place a tawa on the gas stove and brush some oil on it and then place the parcels on it. Let them cook on medium flame and then turn the sides. Once the color of the leaves turn brown it is ready to eat. Now take down the parcels from the tawa, open it and serve it with steamed rice.

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