How to cook nana flower

Patty in Wisc · 12-31-2009, 01:56 PM

I went to grocery to buy New Year dinner (lobster & king crab) & saw a bunch of banana flowers in the produce section. First time I ever saw one! What do you do w/ them? How do you cook them? How do you eat them?

Bob · 12-31-2009, 02:11 PM

They sell them all the time at the Asian market I go to. Here's one I tried last year:Banana Flower Soup Recipe: Preparing a Delicious Sri Lankan Soup with Coconut and Shrimp

Tough to make anything bad with shrimp and coconut though.

There's tons of recipes on the internet. Most of them Indian or Thai it seems.

Patty in Wisc · 12-31-2009, 03:06 PM

Thanks Bob, I'll look them up

Abnshrek · 12-31-2009, 04:28 PM

Sounds like something that will put hair on one's chest (for men) Indian and Thai.. hot stuff :^)
Was the flower good Bob?

lorax · 12-31-2009, 05:36 PM

Patty - here's the rule of thumb. Soak the flower bud overnight in salt water, then slice it into thin rounds, salt it again lightly, and press it like eggplant (between paper towels under heavy weight for at least 30 minutes.) After that, you can use it in any recipe that calls for celery.

I like to use the rounds along with eggplant, zucchini, and tomato for a tropical take on Ratatouille. It's also excellent in stir-fries of all stripes, and particularly good to provide the crunch in Encocados (coconut-peanut curry, an Ecuadorean delicacy normally made with fresh octopus or shrimp).

If you skip the soaking and salting steps, it doesn't matter what you cook - it will be flavoured like pure bitter doom.

Patty in Wisc · 12-31-2009, 05:52 PM

Thanks Lorax, I just might try that!

Rmplmnz · 12-31-2009, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Bob

They sell them all the time at the Asian market I go to. Here's one I tried last year:Banana Flower Soup Recipe: Preparing a Delicious Sri Lankan Soup with Coconut and Shrimp

Tough to make anything bad with shrimp and coconut though.

There's tons of recipes on the internet. Most of them Indian or Thai it seems.

Too funny..we occasionally sell blooms (most get composted) to a local Asian market...every time we go there the manager asks if we have any. We sell over 300 pounds of Carambolas to the same market every year.

Thanks for the recipe!

Bob · 12-31-2009, 09:31 PM

There are tons online. The first one I tried ... horrible ( see lorax tips) . Once you get a feel for them as a cook and find out what you like they're very palatable to say the least.

Wish I had that many I could use as compost though....... I'd settle for the first one!

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