BANANA FLOWER CURRY

Once upon a time, my dear hubby used to grow banana trees in the backyard. The trees never got to bearing ripe banana fruits since frost use to hit them pretty hard. But we always got the huge banana flowers and my mom gave me this recipe.
Here is a very good link which shows how to clean banana florets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhCYK5U52VA

Ingredients
1. Banana core finely chopped + cleaned banana florets (remove center filament with black head and the small wing which automatically comes away when you remove the black headed filament)– chop finely.(You could try soaking in curd. I did not.)
1 sound in cooker (add water just enough to cover)
Now drain water and keep aside
2. 4 red chilies, 1 cup onion (preferably small onion), 1tbsp jeera – grind well in mixer
3. Small Indian lemon size puli – dissolve in water

Procedure
Heat 4 tbsps of nalennai,
Add the mixture from step 2 and puli water from step 3 boil till the raw smell goes away
Sauté banana core florets till well cooked