Ingredients

For cleaning vazhapoo

• 1 small Banana flower
• 1 cup buttermilk + water (for soaking)

For fried rice

• 2 cups cooked rice (preferably cooled or leftover rice)
• 1 to 1½ cups cleaned and finely chopped vazhapoo
• 1 tbsp oil
• 4–5 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 1–2 green or red chillies
• ¼ cup carrot, cabbage & capsicum
• 1 tbsp Soy sauce
• 2 tbsp Schezwan sauce
• 1 tsp pepper powder
• Salt to taste
• Curry leaves

Instructions

Step 1 – Clean the vazhapoo

• Remove the purple petals one by one.
• Inside each layer, remove the hard stamen and thin plastic-like petal from every floret.