While using Banana blossom in cooking, the hard part is cleaning and preparing it. It usually takes at least one hour to do. I have given some step by step tutorial on the procedure. I hope that this post will be useful for beginners. The blossom has many petal and within each petal you can find a bunch of florets resembling the bananas. The first task is to separate the petals and remove the florets. After removing the florets, we can move on to the next step.
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| The size of florets vary as we go inside. The pinker florets are on the top most layer. |
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| Open out the floret as shown |
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| Remove the inner vein and separate the fibres. Discard other parts. |
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| These are little smaller than the pink ones and you will not be able to open it easily. |
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| Open it as shown. |
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| Remove the vein and the transparent part. |
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| Cut out the stem and discard it |
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| This is smaller than the previous florets and you cannot open it |
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| Catch the vein between fingers and pull it out |
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| Cut out the stem |
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| These are the tiniest florets |
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| Just cut the stem |
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| This is the inner most part and this can be used as it is in cooking or can be chopped to small pieces. |
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| This is one full blossom after cutting. |
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