Phanas Phodi ( Shallow Fried Bread Fruit Slices )

Saraswat community is famous for their unusual variety of side dishes and these shallow fried slices of vegetables are one of them .

We saraswats literally make use of any vegetables to make these phodis as we call it .

Today I have made phodis of Bread Fruit. Havind phodis , Thoya ( watery daal ) and rice is a heavenly combinationa .

Ingredients

1 ..................raw jackfruit ( Bread fruit / Neer phanas )
1/2 cup...........rawa ( semolina )
1 tbsp..............rice flour ( optional )
2 tsp................chilly powder
1/2 tsp..............turmeric powder
1 tsp.................karwari sambar powder
1/4 tsp..............hing ( asefoetida )

salt
oil for shallow frying

Method

Remove the rough skin on the bread fruit and cut it into slices.

Apply little salt and keep aside for half and hour.

Mix all the masala powders with rawa.

Heat the tawa and smear it with oil.

Wash the  slices to remove the saltiness and drain out the water if any.

Roll them in the dry rawa mixture and shallow fry on tawa

Turn after 5 minutes and cook till crisp and done on both sides.

Serve hot with daal rice.