Anju Prajapati/Rampur:You must have heard the name of lotus cucumber. This is such a food. Which is being used in our culture for centuries. It is known by many names. Like lotus is popular by the names of cucumber, lotus root and bhasida. You can prepare many types of dishes with this. You will get it easily at all vegetable shops.
The root of Bhasida i.e. lotus flower is cylindrical in appearance and brown in colour. When it is broken, a thread comes out. Its length is two-three feet long and two inches round. Lotus root pakodas have been sold at Thana Civil Lines for almost 70 years. By the way, this 70 years old shop is very famous in entire Rampur. People here have been eating the delicious crispy lotus root pakodas for years.
Same old taste remains
Shopkeeper Jaspreet Kaur told that her father-in-law ran the pakoda stall for about 65 years. Now after his death, she has been making pakodas herself for 4-5 years. Even today the same old taste remains intact. People eat pakodas with great enthusiasm. To make lotus root pakodas, first of all it is peeled and washed thoroughly. Then it is cut into rounds and ground slightly coarsely in a mixer to make a paste. In which it is prepared by mixing gram flour, salt, ginger, garlic, chilli and many other spices. After that, applying water to the pakodas, give them a round shape and fry them in mustard oil on high flame till they turn brown. After that spicy chutney of fresh green coriander is added and served. Lotus root pakodas are sold for Rs 200 a kilo. Apart from this, many types of pakodas like cabbage, potato, chilli and onion are made.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: February 18, 2024, 10:54 IST