Bengali delight- Dry Malpoa

If you have ripe bananas lying around your house,don’t even think of throwing them away.Put them to Great use!!!Whenever there is ripe and soft bananas in my house we make a kind of sweet fritters- called MALPOA. These delicious tasty treats can be eaten morning, noon, or night, as a snack or as dessert.These are very simple to make as well.

Serves-4-5

Ingredients:

1.Bananas-3 ripe

 2.Egg-1

 3.Vanilla essence-1 teaspoon

 4.Cinnamon(Darchini) powder- 1/2 teaspoon

 5.Nutmeg(Jaifal)-  ¼  teaspoon

 6.Sugar- ½  cup(Blend in a mixer to make powder) 

 7.All purpose flour(Maida)- 2 cups

 8.Baking powder- 1 tablespoon

 9.Milk- ½ cup

 Process:

 1.Peel and mash the ripe bananas.

 2.Beat egg, powdered sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

 3.Add the mashed bananas and blend well.

 4.Add the flour and baking powder.  Mix it all together.

 5.Depending on the thikness of the batter we need to add milk.Add the milk and mix it well.

 6.Heat oil in  a pan.  Drop spoonfuls of the banana fritter batter into the hot oiled frying pan. Flip when you see the edges starting to get brown and golden.

7.Serve hot or cold, doesn’t really matter.