August 2015 - Odia Khana Khazana | Odisha Recipes | Odisha Sweets

The large yellow blossoms produced by pumpkin plants are also well known for recipes and its famous especially in countries like America, India and some northern part of Europe countries.

Many food bloggers have described this yellow flower as "The Edible Flower "

Pumpkin blossoms can be boiled and served as soup, even with egg, pasta or salad recipes and many more.

The most interesting and favorite way which every member of your family will like is to fry it and serve with tomato or chilli sauce.

You can easily grow in your back yard and use them any time you want. Mostly in India, women will cook with deep fry and that is what is our recipe name.

Now let us get into business and prepare our Pumpkin flower chips which is also known as

" Kaddu Pakoda "

Pumpkin blossom : Image source : Google

Things Needed to prepare :

Washed Pumpkin blossoms
Refine Oil - For frying pumpkin blossoms
Salt - One cup of salt - Based on the no. of washed pumpkins you will be frying.
Rice powder - This will make your chips crispy and crunchy
Gram flour - For making paste which will be used in deeping washed Pumpkins
Turmeric & Red chilli powder - To add colour to your chips

Preparation Process :

Bring a bowl and add gram flour , rice powder (1/2 of gram flour ) , one spoon of salt , red chilly powder ( 1/2 spoon), add 1/2 spoon of turmeric powder.
Prepare gram flour paste on a bowl so that every pumpkin can be deeped. Paste must be thick.
Add 1/2 amount of rice powder in the paste and mix it well so that paste is well prepared.
Now deep pumpkins such a way every pumpkin is well covered with thick paste
Put a frying pan on gas/fire and let it be for hot for some time and add good amount of refine oil/sun flower oil or any oil which you are using for frying.
Once the oil is getting hot , start putting pumpkins from the paste bowl and deep in the oil pan.
Leave the pumpkins for 5 min till there is brownish-golden colour appearance.
Now flip all pumpkins to other side so that every side is well fried.
Once pumpkins looks brownish-golden from all over , took out them on a plate
Now its time to serve the fried pumpkins to your waiting members with good presentation ;)
Add chilly sauce and tomato sauce on the presentation which will increase the hunger ;)