Cari banane

Ingredients

• 29 green (unripe) bananas
• 3 large tomatoes
• 2 onions
• 7 cloves garlic
• 1½ inch ginger
• 11 curry leaves
• Thyme leaves (~4 sprigs)
• Parsley leaves
• Coriander leaves
• Spring onions
• Masala powder
• Roasted cumin powder
• Haldi powder

Preparation

• Rinse curry leaves and thyme leaves and remove them from sprigs.
  
• Peel bananas and rinse under water.
  
• Immerse tomatoes in boiling water for 1 min, then immediately in cold water. Peel and crush by hand.
  
• Paste: Crush 1 onion, all the ginger and all the garlic together in a mixer grinder to make a paste.
  
  
• Garnish: Finely cut coriander leaves, parsley leaves and spring onions.
  

Procedure

1. Heat oil in frying pan.
2. Add salt and bananas to oil and fry. Remove bananas once fried.
3. Add thyme leaves, curry leaves and cut onion to oil.
4. Add salt and fry until onions change colour slightly.
5. Add crushed tomatoes, onion-ginger-garlic paste, haldi powder and cumin powder to pan.
6. Leave to cook for a while then add water (since bananas will absorb water).
7. (Cook some more time and add more salt if needed.)
8. Add fried bananas to pan.
9. Cook till sauce becomes a bit dry.
10. Turn off flame and garnish with coriander leaves and spring onion.
11. Serve hot.
12. Enjoy your cari banane!