Ingredients

• 1 - banana bud (ripe and encasing sweet tasting flowers)
• 1 cup - coconut milk
• 1/2 cup - oil
• 1/2 tsp - poppy seeds, ground and made into paste
• 1.5 tsp - cumin powder
• 4 - green pepper
• 1 cup - onion (chopped)
• 1 tsp - panch phoron
• 1 tsp - coriander seeds, ground and made into paste
• 1 - bay leaf
• Turmeric as per required
• Salt to taste

How to Make Narikel Mocha

• Free all flowers from the bud. Chop them well after picking out the sticks and transparent petals from them. Boil them in a pan with turmeric and drain out the water.
• Heat oil in a deep bottom pan.
• First fry onion until it turns brown.
• Set aside the fried onion.
• Pour in green pepper, poppy-seed paste, part of coconut milk and panch phoron.
• Fry them dry with all spices.
• Add the picked, chopped and boiled banana flowers.
• Stir them thoroughly. Add salt to it.
• Pour in the rest of the coconut milk. Cover the pan.
• Cook it over low heat for 10 minutes.
• Sprinkle onions and serve hot.