Recipe: Delicious Pumpkin Flower and leaves Fritters

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

Pumpkin Flower and leaves 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. Main ingredients: pumpkin flowers, gram flour, baking powder,red chillie powder,cumin seeds powder, dhania powder.

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.

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.

You can cook Pumpkin Flower and leaves Fritters using 6 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pumpkin Flower and leaves Fritters

  1. Prepare of Gram flour.

  2. You need of Pumpkin flower and.

  3. You need of Baking soda.

  4. You need of Onion seeds.

  5. It’s of Salt.

  6. Prepare of Oil.

These fritters can be easily and so quickly made at home.

Remove flesh and purée with a mixer, food processor, or potato masher.

Place in fridge to cool thoroughly.

In a large bowl, add pumpkin purée, flour, ricotta cheese, eggs, salt, and pepper.

Pumpkin Flower and leaves Fritters step by step

  1. Mix besan, baking soda and salt in a bowl.

  2. Next add some onion seeds and mix it well.

  3. Next add water slowly and mix..

  4. Mix it and make a smooth bater..

  5. Next cleand and wash the pumpkin flowers..

  6. Now dip and coat the pumpkin flowers in bater..

  7. And fry the flower in heated oil..

  8. Fry the flower until it turns golden brown from both the sides. Next wash and clean the pumpkin leaves and repeat the process to fry it..

  9. Next take the pumpkin leaves and repeat the process to fry it..

  10. Deep fried the pumpkin leaves in low flame..

  11. When its done take it out and serve hot..

Red pumpkin is a popular vegetable eaten in Bihar and perhaps almost everywhere in the world.

The pumpkin slices, leaves and flowers - all are used to make fritter or bachka in Bihar and Jharkhand.

Bachka is also known by various other names in Bihar such as pakoda, chakka, jhuri, tarua etc.

These crunchy fried pumpkin flowers make a great summer starter.

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