Ingredients

• 4 - raw bananas
• 2 tbsp - rice flour
• 1 pinch - asafoetida
• 1 pinch - turmeric powder
• 1 tsp - salt
• 2 tbsp - gingili oil
• 1 tsp - cumin seeds
• 1/2 cup - chopped onions
• 1/2 cup - freshly grated coconut
• 1 tbsp - chopped green chillies
• 1 tbsp - freshly grated ginger
• 2 tbsp - chopped coriander leaves
• Oil for roasting

How to Make Raw banana bhakri

• Cut the raw bananas into two or three pieces. Cover with water and cook with the peel, till soft.
• Peel the cooked bananas and blend in a mixer along with turmeric powder, asafoetida and salt.
• Add the rice flour and gingili oil and run the mixer for a few more seconds so that it comes together like a dough.
• Transfer it into a bowl and add the chopped onion, grated coconut, green chillies, ginger, cumin seeds and coriander leaves.
• Knead all the ingredients together and leave it covered for a while.
• Grease a banana leaf or butter paper and place a ball of the banana dough on it.
• Wet your fingers and pat the sticky dough into a moderately thick and round bhakri.
• Invert the leaf onto a greased and heated tava and gently peel it off when the bhakri sits on the tava.
• Drizzle with oil and gently cook till the bhakri is done.
• Flip it on the other side and cook on medium flame.
• Pour one more spoon of oil around the edges and cook till the bhakri gets the golden tiger stripes on both sides.
• Top it with a blob of butter and serve the Baalekai Bhakri immediately with your favourite vegetables.
• Recipe courtesy: Chitra Amma's Kitchen
• http://chitra-ammas-kitchen.blogspot.in/