Kumro Phool Bora aka pumpkin flower fritter

Name: Kumro Phool Bora aka pumpkin flower fritter
Total time: 900 s
Yield: 4 people
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 6 Pumpkin flower; 4 tbsp besan; 1 tbsp rice flour; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp chilli powder; 1 cup vegetable oil

ayndrila dutta @titlis_homekitchen

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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This is a crunchy crispy bora makes a perfect side dish with steamed rice and dal (lentil curry) in lunch. Pumpkin is called kumro, flowers are called phool and fritters are bora in Bengali. Kumro phuler bora (pumpkin blossom fritters) recipe is an extremely quick and easy one. After cleaning the flowers, it is only a matter of few minutes with very simple basic ingredients which include Bengal Gram Flour or Besan and Rice Flour and some basic spices to make the batter. It is followed by frying the flowers after removing the inner parts and then coating in the batter

ayndrila dutta @titlis_homekitchen

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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Ingredients

15 minutes

4 people

6Pumpkin flower
4 tbspbesan
1 tbsprice flour
1 tspsalt
1/4 tspbaking soda
1 tspchilli powder
1 cupvegetable oil

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Steps

15 minutes

1

Wash Kumro Phool or Pumpkin Flower under running water. Using a knife remove the sepal or the green part beneath the petals.
Now give the flower a vertical slit and remove the stamen and pistil (male and female parts of the flower) from inside. Wash the joined petals lightly with water for further use.
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Now take Besan, Rice Flour, Baking Soda, Chili Powder and Salt in a bowl and mix properly using a spoon.Keep a cup of water handy to make a thick batter.Add 4-5 tablespoon of water to the mixture and start mixing with the spoon to make the batter and keep on adding water if required until a thick batter is formed.
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Now heat sufficient Refined vegetable oil in a kadai.Coat a piece of pumpkin flower with the batter. Start frying in medium flame until the fritter turns golden brown from one side. Turn the fritter to other side and fry that side too. Enjoy with rice and daal (recipe in link)

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ayndrila dutta @titlis_homekitchen

on November 26, 2021 09:11

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

A research chemist by profession and love simplicity. My passion for cooking and art makes me explore new things and I love pursuing them. Being a chemist, it provokes me to do experiments in my kitchen too.Follow my insta handle @titlis_homekitchen