Thursday, February 7, 2008

Breakfast??

What do ppl eat for breakfast everyday? I get bored thinking abt what should I make today!!

I call my mom everyday in the morning, and she has her usual question "What did u eat?", some days if i have really managed to get up early in the morning and actually made soemthing(!), I recount every detail to her excitedly, even giving her tips on how to make it :-D.
And then on some days, when I have actually done nothing, my answer is like a gruff hmm, haan, yes I ate something and I try to change the topic as soon as possible.
Today was one of those days :-(

But as I left today, I saw some blackened overripe bananas lying around, and my mind immediately flew thousands of kilometers to a place in south Karnataka called Karkala, and a wonderful eatery called "Ashoka hotel". Oh, how I love the buns you get there!!! These are not the "english" buns you must have imagined, these are the hot,delicious, fluffy, slightly sweet, amazingly soft when you chew them, banana buns!
Yes, buns made out of ripe bananas, and I have decided I am going to make them tomorrow for sure (ahem..)
The recipe goes like this , which is how my mom makes it : Crush the bananas, mix with flour(my mom uses regular wheat flour, maida can also be used), sugar, salt, some curd, jeera and baking powder. If you have a food processor, you can mix the dough in it (its less messy). Keep
this dough overnight, and in the morning fry them in oil like pooris, and you have your buns ready.
If I do make them tomorrow, I will try to uplaod some pics.

1 comment:

gauri said...

it was wonderful to read about the banana buns...evoked a sense for what you must have enjoyed in karnataka...:D