Vazhakkai Varuval Raw Banana Fry Recipe

Vazhakkai Varuval is so flavourful and tastes good with rice, lunch meals, chapathi and variety rice dishes like lemon rice, coconut rice and curd rice. . Do try this and let me know how you like it.

About Vazhakkai Varuval

I always love to try new recipes and when I saw this Vazhakkai Varuval Recipe in a chettinad cook book long back jotted down and kept and finally tried it this time. This is spicy, crisp and so flavourful making it perfect to go with rice. The speciality of this dish is that the spices are so aromatic which makes this Vazhakkai Varuval more flavourful and tasty. I love it with Sambar rice and Curd rice. This Vazhakkai Varuval tastes more or less like the ones we taste in marriage functions and we all loved it so much.

Vazhakkai Varuval Ingredients

Raw Banana : Choose slightly tender raw banana for best taste and flavour. Spices : Aromatic spices like fennel seeds, ginger, garlic, pepper along with red chillies are added to grind. Tempering : A basic tadka or tempering is made along with onion. I have used small onion for best flavour, and I would recommend adding shallots or small onion. But if you don’t have then use fiinely chopped big onion. Spice Mix : A spice mix is made by mixing all the spice powderes like red chilli powder, sambar powder, coriander powder etc.

Vazhakkai Varuval 2 Methods

Method 1 : The first method is a bit elaborate one and takes time to cook which I have shared below but tastes so flavourful perfect to go with rice. Method 2: The second method I always end up making when I am crushed for time especially for kids lunchbox. At times if I have no time or feel lazy to cook I make this for lunch along with lemon rice and my day is sorted. I have shared this recipe here for easy reference.

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How make Vazhakkai Varuval

Expert Tips

If you do not want to deep fry then you can shallow fry raw banana and proceed the slight crispness will be missing. Adding small onion gives this dish a nice flavour and crunch do do not miss it. Adjust spicelevel according to your taste and preference. If you choose tender raw banana keep an eye as it cooks faster.

Variations

You can alternatively shallow fry raw banana instead of deep frying. Adjust spices according to your taste, this recipe is medium spicy.

Serving and Storage

Vazhakkai Varuval goes well with rice and sambar or along with lemon rice, coconut rice or any other variety rice. It serves as a great sidedish for curd rice too. You can store this vazhakkai varuval in fridge for 2 days, slightly heat it up while serving. If you feel it is too dry then sprinkle little water and heat it up to get perfect slightly moist Vazhakkai Varuval. Pin

Vazhakkai Varuval | Easy Raw Banana Fry

This Raw Banana Fry is very easy and quick to make perfect to pack for lunchbox. You can even cut, clean raw banana the previous day, marinate with spices and keep it ready for frying the next day.

I usually make this for mittus lunchbox and thats how she started liking this veggie.I never had the plan of posting this but many of my friends and readers asked to post the recipe after seeing this pic, so clicked it today. I usually make raw banana curry or stir fry or podimas. This raw banana fry I just tried it for mittus sake and she just loved it and now this is on demand including amma.

Ingredients

1 medium sized raw banana(vazhakkai)1 teaspoon red chilli powder1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder1/4 teaspoon coriander powder1/4 teaspoon kashmiri chilli powdersalt to taste3 to 4 teaspoon oil