How to clean Vazhaipoo / Plantain flower

Before starting to chop the flower and make dish out of it these are the steps needed to be followed . Will post few recipes soon. 

            Apply oil to your hand this helps to prevent your hand from becoming black . Take a bowl of water and mix little buttermilk into that and set aside , once you chop vazhaipoo add it to this water + buttermilk mixture , this helps preventing the chopped flower turning into black ..

          Remove each red petals (Picture 2) and take the bunch of flower separately and spread it in news paper (Picture 3) once done with full flower , take a bunch of flower and rub the top gently on your palm ,  you will see the bud like stamen and (Picture 6) and a small petal (Picture 5) remove both the parts (Picture 7 and 8)and then finally chop the flower and add it to the water + buttermilk mixture .  

Paneer Paratha

Ingredients needed: 

For Roti/Chapathi :

• Wheat flour 
• Water
• Salt
• Oil

For Stuffing:

• Paneer
• Chili powder
• Salt
• Coriander leaves (Opt.)

Method: 

                In a bowl, grate paneer to this add chili powder + salt and if adding coriander leaves , then finally chop it and add it to the grated paneer and mix it well and set aside.

In a separate bowl mix Wheat flour + salt and with required amount of water mix it well and make soft dough ..take a small ball size of the dough and make it like a cup and place a spoon of paneer stuffing and close the edges and then dust it with wheat flour and roll it in a roti ...once done, heat a tawa and fry rolled roti / chapathi and add little oil if needed and cook it well till done. 

Serve hot with pickle and curd or goes well with dal tadka.