Soft, fluffy, and sweet Banana Puris, popularly known as Mangalore Buns are the breakfast or popular teatime snack around Mangalore – Udupi regions of Karnataka. It is made out of overripe bananas. One more delicious dish can be prepared using the over ripe bananas ! other than Banana Rotti, Banana Idli..
Here is step by step instructions with pictures to "How to make Banana Buns / Mangalore Buns Recipe "
Ingredients
- 2 ripe Bananas
- around 3.5 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup yogurt/curd
- 1.5 tsp salt
- pinch of baking Soda
- Oil to fry
Instructions
- Keep 2 Bananas ready.
- Peel the Bananas and mash it thoroughly, (by hand or use a blender)
- Add sugar, baking soda and yogurt and mix it thoroughly.
- Mix it until the sugar melts and it becomes paste like this.
- Now slowly add all purpose flour/maida to the banana paste and mix it. Continue adding the flour until you get the medium hard dough(like chapathi dough) consistency.(It may take 3 to 3.5 cups)
- Once you get the consistency, cover it and keep it for 6 to 8 hours or overnight.
- After keeping the dough for 6 to 8 hours, knead it again and take a small lemon size dough and make a ball like this.
- Keep enough oil in a pan on medium heat to deep fry the buns
- Dip the dough ball in the flour and roll it using a rolling pin like this.
- Don't roll it to thin circle, it has be thick like this.
- Once the oil is hot enough, add the prepared poori/bun, press it gently.
- Once it puffs up, flip it and let it fry on the other side.
- Fry it until both sides turns golden brown.
- Remove the buns using the perforated ladle on to the colander.
Follow the above procedure to make more Buns.
- Fluffy, soft and sweet Banana Puris/Mangalore buns are ready , you can just eat as it is or serve with chutney.
