Banana Flower is a very healthy vegetable full of fibre and loads of goodness. One prominent reason why this vegetable is not used in cooking much is that, for some it is a very cumbersome process to cut this vegetable as its time consuming, and for others they simply don't know how to use it....In our days, it's all grannies and mommies duty to take up this labourious task, I wonder whether the next generation would even come to know such vegetable exists. Let us not stop using this healthy vegetable because we don't know how to use it...I have attempted to show how to cut this wonder vegetable, so it can help anyone who wants to know how to cut this vegetable. Next time you see a banana flower, just go grab it and cut as shown below and cook it in multiple ways as you want and enjoy it's both good taste and good health.
How to Cut Banana Stem:
1. The banana stem comprise of many petals (Dark Red/Maroon colour), peel each of the petals one by one.
2. Inside each petal, there are many florets (white in colour), which should be detached/plucked from the petals.
3. Each florets has a stamen in the middle and a small covering (looks slightly glossy), which needs to be removed. This is done by holding each floweret's tip of the stamen and pulling it towards you, this breaks both the stamen and the covering from the florets.
Collect all the florets like this from each and every petal, until you reach the core of the vegetable, where you will not find any more petals and only bunch of small tender florets remains, It is ok to use the tender florets as it is, without removing the stamen, as there would be hardly any stamen in it, as you reach the core of the vegetable.
Once all the florets are collected as mentioned above, cut them to an inch size or any desired length you want and drop them in the bowl of buttermilk water. This helps the florets from discolouration.
Now the chopped banana flower is ready for your cooking!!!!
Tips:
If the Banana flower is very fresh, when you remove the petals the florets will be very creamish/whitish in colour and looks very tender and fresh. If the flower is not very fresh, the florets will have slight brown colouration. As long as it is not too dark, you can use it for cooking.
How to Cut Banana Stem:
1. The banana stem comprise of many petals (Dark Red/Maroon colour), peel each of the petals one by one.
2. Inside each petal, there are many florets (white in colour), which should be detached/plucked from the petals.
3. Each florets has a stamen in the middle and a small covering (looks slightly glossy), which needs to be removed. This is done by holding each floweret's tip of the stamen and pulling it towards you, this breaks both the stamen and the covering from the florets.
Once all the florets are collected as mentioned above, cut them to an inch size or any desired length you want and drop them in the bowl of buttermilk water. This helps the florets from discolouration.
Now the chopped banana flower is ready for your cooking!!!!
Tips:
If the Banana flower is very fresh, when you remove the petals the florets will be very creamish/whitish in colour and looks very tender and fresh. If the flower is not very fresh, the florets will have slight brown colouration. As long as it is not too dark, you can use it for cooking.
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