ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS
ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, odia kakharu phula pitha / pumpkin flower fritters. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Indian Style Spicy Pumpkin Blossom or Kakharu Phula Bhaja or Kumro Phul Boda is made with fresh pumpkin or squash blossoms ,which are dipped in a spiced batter and shallow fried until golden brown. This Indian Style spicy Pumpkin Blossom Fritter recipe is served as a side dish.so do try this.. Odia Kakharu phula bhaja Recipe by mrunalinee

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook odia kakharu phula pitha / pumpkin flower fritters using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS:
  1. Take 10-12 Pumpkin flowers
  2. Make ready 4-5 tablespoon rice soaked for at least 30-40 minutes
  3. Prepare 2 Garlic cloves
  4. Prepare 2 Green Chillies
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds (Jeera)
  6. Take pinch turmeric powder (Haldi)
  7. Get as required oil for shallow fry(I prefer mustard oil)
  8. Take as needed Salt
  9. Get as required Water to make batter

These fritters can be easily and so quickly made at home. Basically the pumpkin plant has two variety of flowers : male and female. Now soak the pumpkin flowers one by one in the rice paste and put them on the 'tawa'. After one minute turn each slice upside down and fry.

Steps to make ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS:
  1. Grind the soaked rice, cumin seeds,garlic, green chilli in a blender to medium consistency. It shouldn't be a very smooth paste nor should not be runny. It should be a little granular.
  2. Add salt, a pinch of turmeric powder and mix well. Set aside.
  3. Cut out lower part/sepal of the flower, except the petal and clean them well under running water and Pat dry using tissue/paper napkin
  4. Heat oil in a nonstick pan/tawa on a medium flame.
  5. Take one flower at a time, dip in batter shake off excess batter and place on the pan.
  6. Repeat this step for the rest of the flowers. Cook till they crisp on one side.it would take roughly 2 mins
  7. Then flip the other side and cook. drizzle little oil as and when required.. Fry till both sides of the pumpkin flower are crisp.
  8. Kakharu Phula Pitha/Bhaja is ready to be served hot.

If a little bit more oil is required add it, and allow all the flowers to be fried well till they turn golden brown. Your Kakharu Phula Bhaja is ready to be served. Pumpkin blossoms and rice flour contains energy and carbohydrate. Once the lower side is cooked, it is to be turned and the other side cooked. My only taste of the cuisine was "The flavours in our versions, even in the dishes we share with other states, like muri and jhol, and our pithas (rice cakes bhaja (fritters of whole pumpkin flowers), jahni posta (ridge gourd cooked in a poppy.

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