Taaler Bora (Palm Pakora)

Its festival time.Ganapati Puja, Though its not that much big in Bengal, But we are celebrating Ganesh Puja at our complex. Personally I have seen how people of Hyderabad celebrate this puja for 7 days. Its so lively, like our durgapuja days.But I have not personally seen how Maharastrian celebrate that, obviously only in TV.



Ok, now come to our point.What I prepared in this ganapati puja.Its a sweet dish which again one of Bengals favourite.

Its the season of TAAL(Palm).Yes, I ll share the very famous Taler Bara recipe.Its a really tasty dish whic we can enjoy only in this season in a year.

PALM is a very juicy kind of fruit.When its perfectly ripe then it smells really wonderfull.

Preparation Time: 1 hr
Ingredients:
1 ripe palm
Sugar as per taste
2 cup flower
1 cup suji
pinch of salt
1 cocunut properly shredded
Refined Oil to deep fry( I prefer Soyabean Oil)

Preparation:
First of all we have to take the juice out of the palm.Open the palm, we can see 3 seeds. Sometimes it may be 4 also, but that is rare. Add little water to them and rub by hands properly.Then using a net/Chalni extract the juice from each seed.
Collect all the juice and keep it in a white cotton cloth.And hang for 10 min.Actually it removes the bitterness of PALM.

Palm has a bitter taste in it and I follow this procedure to remove that. I learned this from my mother.
After that take this juice into a bowl. Add maida,suji,enough sugar and pinch of salt.Also add the shredded cocunut. Mix them well.
Check the taste once.May be you have to add sugar, this is a sweet dish.As per your taste make it more sweet.

Now mix properly for next couple of minutes.

Now heat oil in a deep fry pan. After heating the oil, now its time to create the baras. From that mixture create small balls by hand and pour into the hot oil. This way add as many it can take.

Fry the balls till red texture and then soak in a paper to remove extra oil.

Have them hot to feel the crunchy taste.

YUMMY!!!!!

Enjoy PUJA.