Vacation

I am off to Goa for 3 days, after 6 months! Have a lot of activities packed in these 3 days! More on that later… till then have a happy weekend!

Mangalore Buns with a twist

In an earlier post I had mentioned my addiction to Mangalore buns, you can see them here and here. What’s better than using up ripe banana’s?

My husband doesn’t like eating whole jeera in the buns and also wanted to make the buns a little healthier, hence crushed the jeera and added honey instead of sugar

So here’s what I did:
Ingredients:
3 yellaki bananas (ripe)
2 cups wheat flour
2 tea spn sugar
2 tbl spn Honey
2 tbl spn curd/ 1/2 cup yogurt
1 tea spn jeera
1/2 tea spn cardamom (seeds)
1/2 tea spn baking powder
salt to taste
oil for deep frying

Method:
Crush jeera and cardamom using mortar-pestle and keep aside.

In a wide plate/pan, mash the bananas. Add jeera-cardomom powder, baking powder, curd/yogurt, honey, sugar and salt. Mix well. Now add 1/2 cup of the wheat flour and mix well to form a dough. Slowly add the remaining dough and form a chapati like batter. If required add some water or flour to get the batter.

Apply a little oil all over the dough. Cover and keep overnite or for 4-5 hours in a cool place. (Bangalore is cool currently, so can leave it out as well )

Take a small piece of the dough and roll into a thick puri. Since the dough may be sticky, apply some oil on dough. Heat oil in a kadai and fry like you do for making puris.

Enjoy it as a good breakfast or as a snack

Note: This version is mild sweet. To increase the sweetness, add more sugar.