http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/archives/2008/02/02/flavors-of-life-pumpkin-blossom/ Cooking with Consciousness ~ Indi(r)a's Recipe and Photo Weblog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/archives/2008/02/02/flavors-of-life-pumpkin-blossom/#comment-713160 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:43:14 +0000 http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/archives/2008/02/02/flavors-of-life-pumpkin-blossom/#comment-713160 Hi, This brings memories of childhood in a town, not very far from a metro. Maa, a natural at growing plants would grow a vegatable garden and a few fruit trees. Our large terrace would be covered most of the time with pumpkin or broad beans creeper. The 'male' pumpkin flower (it is easy to identify them from the 'female') would be less lucky as unlike the 'female' flower, they wither away. So I would wait for Maa to pluck the male ones, every alternate day. After removing the stack , spread the petal into two halves, she would dip them in a besan (chickpea flour based dip) and make Kumro phool bhajaa (pumkin flower pakora). This is one of the many humble traditional vegetarian dishes from the kitchens of Bengal. Hi,
This brings memories of childhood in a town, not very far from a metro. Maa, a natural at growing plants would grow a vegatable garden and a few fruit trees. Our large terrace would be covered most of the time with pumpkin or broad beans creeper. The ‘male’ pumpkin flower (it is easy to identify them from the ‘female’) would be less lucky as unlike the ‘female’ flower, they wither away. So I would wait for Maa to pluck the male ones, every alternate day. After removing the stack , spread the petal into two halves, she would dip them in a besan (chickpea flour based dip) and make Kumro phool bhajaa (pumkin flower pakora). This is one of the many humble traditional vegetarian dishes from the kitchens of Bengal.

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