Recipe: Perfect ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS

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Recipe: Perfect ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS
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Recipe: Perfect ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS Delicious, fresh and tasty.

ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS. Pumpkin Flower Fritters Recipe is super easy to follow. Odia style Kakharu Phula Bhaja is a delicacy that you will surely enjoy with your loved ones. A tempting dish straight away from my mom's kitchen.

These pumpkin flower fritters is an easy and quick recipe.

To use in this recipe, only male flowers that are harvested from the pumpkin plant are used to cook.

This is since the female flowers of pumpkin will grow to be the edible pumpkins.

You can cook ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS

  1. You need of Pumpkin flowers.

  2. You need of rice soaked for at least 30-40 minutes.

  3. It’s of Garlic cloves.

  4. It’s of Green Chillies.

  5. It’s of Cumin seeds (Jeera).

  6. Prepare of turmeric powder (Haldi).

  7. It’s of oil for shallow fry(I prefer mustard oil).

  8. Prepare of Salt.

  9. It’s of Water to make batter.

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.

Only the male flowers are plucked for fritters and the female ones are left as they are capable of growing.

ODIA KAKHARU PHULA PITHA / PUMPKIN FLOWER FRITTERS instructions

  1. Grind the soaked rice, cumin seeds,garlic, green chilli in a blender to medium consistency. It shouldnt 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..

Odia cuisine exudes simplicity and delectability both at the same time and there couldn't have been a better proof than "Kakharu Phula Bara" or the Pumpkin Flower Fritters.

One of the most loved side-dishes cooked in an Odia kitchen, it is yet another example of how humility can win over a thousand hearts!

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.