KELYA DHUNDU--a Sweet Side dish made with small Banana .

Kelya Dhundu is a sweet side dish made with chopped  Banana  pieces .Usually Dundu is prepared with Gullar, which looks like a large Turkey berry.

Some times we can't get this special vegetable.So instead of Gullar we use ripe small banana to prepare this sweet side dish. 

This side dish is also a menu in the Kochi GSB meal in some of the relegious function instead of Gullar dundu.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare this delecious and sweet side dish.

Ingredients:-

Ripe Banana small.- 4 chopped
Tamarind pulp.       - little
Jaggery.                  -1/4cup
Salt.                        -to taste
Rice flour.              - 1 or 2tsp



For Seasoning:-

Coconut oil.      -1tsp
Mustard seeds   -1tsp
Methi seeds.      -6 seeds 
jeera.                 -1/4tsp
Pepper corn.      -6 crushed
Curry leaves .    -1 spring


Method:-

Crush the Pepper corn  and keep aside.

Crush Jaggery and keep aside.

Soak little Tamarind in little hot Water  and extract  thick Tamarind pulp.

In a small vessel smash and mix the Tamarind pulp with Salt and Jaggery thoroughly with your hands.

Heat a pan and add the above mixture and boil  for 1 minute and saute well.

In the small bowl add 1 or 2 tsp Rice flour and add  little Water.Mix the Rice flower in water without any lumps and add this to the boiled mixture and cook for 2 minutes till the mixture  thickens.Switch off the flame.

Chop a small ripe Bananas into thin roundels.Add this Banana roundels into the cooked Tamarind Jaggery mixture and mix well.

Transfer the mixture to a seving bowl.The consistency of the Kelya Dundu mixture is very thick.

Heat Coconut oil in a pan and splutter Mustard seeds Add Methi seeds, Jeera,crushed Pepper and Curry leaves.

Add this seasoning  into the Kelya Dundu mixture in the serving bowl.

Kalya Dhundu is ready to serve as a side dish with Rice and it  is very thick in consistency..