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Plantain Flower Recipe

Indications

  • It reduces 'pitta' and 'Kapha'; increases 'Vata'
  • It is said to be a 'Sattvik' diet (recommended by swami Chandrasekarendra Saraswati)
  • It is astringent in taste
  • Sweet after digestion
  • Cold in potency
  • Easy to digest
  • Drying

It relieves the following -

  • Bleeding piles
  • Diabetes
  • Leucorrhoea
  • Pitta - Kapha diseases
  • Stomach ulcers
  • Cough
  • Peripheral neuritis
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Sanskrit name: Kadali pushpam

Botanical name: Musa paradisiaca

Tamil name: Vazhai poo

English name: Plantain flower

Method of Preparation

Soak Bengal gram for 15 minutes. Then add cumin seeds and pepper to it and grind it for few seconds. Take away the style of the plantain flower. Then chop it to pieces and clean it in running water. Cook for 5-7 minutes. Add some turmeric powder while boiling. Decant the water. In a pan, add sesame oil and season with mustard seeds and asafoetida. Add ground Bengal gram, pepper, and cumin seeds and sauté it for few minutes. Then add the cooked plantain flowers and salt. Sauté it for few minutes. Garnish with curry leaves.

Glossary

Satvic diet - A diet that induces positive thoughts and harmonizes body and mind.


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Comments

Edsantiago - Jul 28, 2010

Nice information. I will use the recipe in cooking some of my snake gourd harvests. thanks.
ED SANTIAGO, Philippines


Shascam - Jul 18, 2010

Easy, Tasty & Healthy

raj_ns - Apr 12, 2010

Hi, the amount of coconut is not clear in the recipe-the units are missing. is it 1/2 TBS?
otherwise excellent stuff!

Sarahscifi - Feb 01, 2010

It seems like all the flavours are competing with one another - andasafoetida is an aquired taste. I will persevere and eat it because I love beetroot, but I don't think i will make it again, sorry!

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