Recipe: Delicious Pumpkin Flower Fritters

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Recipe: Delicious Pumpkin Flower Fritters Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Pumpkin Flower Fritters. Pumpkin flower fritters aka kakharu phula bhaja (in odia) / kumro phool bora (in bengali) are very tasty and very popular in Odisha as well as West Bengal. These fritters can be easily and so quickly made at home. Basically the pumpkin plant has two variety of flowers : male and female.

The first time I tried them I was a bit reluctant, I have to admit it.

They are just the Pumpkin flowers deep or pan-fried in.

Pumpkin Flower Fritters Recipe The batter is mostly prepared with soaked rice, the traditional way of doing it.

You can have Pumpkin Flower Fritters using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Pumpkin Flower Fritters

  1. You need of pumpkin flowers.

  2. Prepare of For batter–.

  3. You need of besan.

  4. Prepare of rice flour.

  5. It’s of ginger-green chilli, grated.

  6. Prepare of turmeric powder.

  7. It’s of salt.

  8. It’s of cumin seeds.

  9. You need of crushed carom (ajwain) seeds.

  10. You need of cooking oil.

The coarse texture of rice brings a crispiness to the dish.

It will give a nice smooth texture.

Pumpkin Flower Fritters Pumpkin flower fritters or kaddu ke phool ke pakode is a relishable snack as well as an inviting side dish.

Pumpkin flowers are rich in iron, folate, calcium as well as vitamin A, vitamin C, phosphorous, magnesium and potassium.

Pumpkin Flower Fritters instructions

  1. As shown in the photo remove the outside hair of pumpkin flowers. Wash the flowers carefully, lightly. Removed base parts could be used in the fitter after chopping. Open each flower..

  2. In a mixing bowl take all the ingredients of batter. Add water to make thin batter. Mix well..

  3. Stack 4 opened flower one above the other. Dip in the batter and close the flower. Repeat this process for all 5 fritters..

  4. Heat oil in a kadhai. Shallow fry the pumpkin flowers, both sides, on low to medium flame.

Serve hot with sauce or enjoy it as a side dish..

These crunchy fried pumpkin flowers make a great summer starter.

It's been a week since we arrived in Italy for our summer holidays.

Thanks to the weekly work of my sister and her husband my dad has a great vegetable garden.

In Italy you have to pick up your vegetables during the first part of the morning or you risk to melt in the sun!

So, yesterday I woke up early and went in the garden, my.