Sunday, October 12, 2008

Balehannu chapathi | Banana Chapathi : Left over magic

 

Because of Singapore's weather, the shelf life of banana is very less. Within 3-4 days, the bananas get ripened & cannot be consumed. So.., what could be done to use this completely ripened bananas?? There are many recipes that take ripened banana as an ingredient like banana dosa, buns (Mangalore buns), mulka, appa. I'll post all the above mentioned recipes, but now, I'm publishing a different & a very easy recipe whose main ingredient is ripened banana.

If you are thinking that the chapathi/roti becomes sweet.., you are wrong. It doesn't become sweet, but will have flavor & aroma of banana. You can have it with any palya, gojju or curry.

This is again learnt from my co-sister & here it goes...............



Ingredients: (Makes about 20 chapathis)
2-3 ripened bananas (over ripened)
3 cups whole wheat floor | atta
2 tbsp sugar
a pinch of cardamom powder
salt according to taste.
ghee/oil for greasing



Method:
  • Mash the bananas completely & add salt, sugar and cardamom powder to it.
  • Keep adding the wheat flour to the mashed bananas & mix the wheat flour with the bananas.
  • Dont add water at this stage, just mix the mashed bananas with the flour. 
  • Add little water at a time to make a stiff dough. The banana will ooze out water, hence do not add too much water at a time. I'm stressing again, make a stiff dough. Once the dough rests for 30 mins, the dough will become soft.
  • Set aside for 30 mins.
  • Knead the dough again, and divide it into lemon sized balls.
  • Dust the surface and roll out the chapathis using a rolling pin.
  • Roast the chapathi on a medium-high heat on a hot griddle. Smear some ghee and roast the chapathis on both the sides until golden brown.
  • Banana rotis, chapathis are ready to serve.
  • Serve with any curry, palya, chutney of your choice.

5 comments:

  1. Interesting Recipe ri..Never thought of adding it to chapathi flour!!

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  2. Hi there...came here bloghopping and realised that you're in Singapore. Good to find some kannadigas here in Singapore.

    And you're so right about bananas getting spoilt in a day or two here. This is an interesting recipe.

    Try maadi nodutini. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Definitely an interesting recipe, chapati sweet aagi irlilva, hongone soppella sigathaalli neevu thumba lucky, naanu singapore ge bunbidbeku ansuthe!!, I will definitely give this a try, I do sometime have ripened bananas at home

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  4. Hello, a wonderful wonderful blog u have there. This is a great help to people who started cooking recently coz my worry these days is what new thing to prepare for the next meal. Thanks a ton lady :). And do keep up the good work.

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  5. Thank you all

    @fullmoononearth: Thanks a lot for your kind words. Made my day :D

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