Aratikaya Chips Curry | Raw Banana Chips Curry | Kache Kela Ki Curry
Recipe prepared by Smt Jhansi Lakshmi
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Article written by Lakshmi Aparna
Raw banana curry is very easy to prepare. This is a side dish for many dal curries and curd rice. This will taste good with steamed rice too. Here are the step by step instructions.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Main ingredient: Raw banana
Serves: 2-3
Course: Main
Ingredients
Raw banana: 1 or 2
Onion slices: 1 medium
Sliced green chillies: 2 or 3
Curry leaves: Few
Turmeric powder: 1/4 tbsp
Salt: As per taste
Red chilly powder: 1 tbsp
Oil: 2-3 tbsp
For taalimpu or tempering
Bengal gram: 1 tbsp, black gram: 1/2 tbsp, dry red chilly: 1, mustard seeds: 1/2 tbsp, cumin seeds: 1/2 tbsp
Procedure
Step 1: Cut the banana into slices.
Step 2: Sprinkle a little salt on pieces. Preheat 2-3 tbsp oil in a frying pan and add the slices. Stay in medium flame
Close the pan for a minute
Flip the chips over and saute for a minute
Add turmeric powder and saute for a minute
Keep them aside
Step 3: Preheat 1-2 tbsp oil, give taalimpu with spices one by one in medium flame
Bengal gram
Dry red chilly, cumin seeds, mustard seeds
Step 4: When mustard seeds make a crackling sound, add sliced onions, curry leaves, green chillies and salt. Saute for a minute
Step 5: Add red chilly powder, saute for a minute
Step 6: Add fried banana slices to it, saute for 1-2 minutes
Q) How do you peel a raw banana without the starch getting stuck in the peeler or the hands?
Applying oil to the hands gets rid of the starches very easily. It will be easy to clean the peeler using boiled water.
Q) What is primary difference between raw banana and a fruit banana?
The starch in the raw bananas transforms in sugars as they ripen and turn yellow.
Q) Are raw bananas useful for weight loss?
Resistant starch is hard to digest and it also makes you feel full regulating the food intake. Also raw bananas have low glycemic index. All these factors help weight loss.
Turn off the flame. Yummy raw banana curry is ready :)
Tastes good as it is with steamed rice or combined with tomato pappu, palakura pappu, mudda pappu, curd rice.
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