Kolar Bora (Bengali Banana Fritters)
Kolar Bora aka Bengali Banana Fritter is a crispy sweet snack/ dessert prepared with ripe bananas.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 15 mins
- Yield: 20 Fritters 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: Bengali
Ingredients
Units
Scale
- Paka Kola/ Ripe Banana: 2-3 (depending on the size of the banana)
- Scrapped Coconut: 1 cup
- Atta/ Whole-wheat Flour: 1 Cup (and some extra to make the consistency right)
- Rice Flour: 2 Tbsp.
- Gur/ Jaggery: 1 Cup (grated)
- Salt: 1/4 Tsp.
- Oil: for deep frying
Instructions
- Mash bananas using a masher or your hands. It is better to use over-ripe bananas to make bora.
- Add scrapped coconut, whole wheat four and rice flour and also salt to the lump-free banana mash.
- Add Jaggery as well.
- Mix to make a thick batter.
- If the batter turns out to be slimy add some more wheat flour to adjust the consistency.
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Once properly heated, keep the flame on the lower side.
- Now pour a dollop of the batter using a spoon or your fingers.
- You can fry 5-6 fritters per batch depending on the size of the pan.
- Fry the Bora from both sides until it is crisp and deep brown in color.
- Strain from the oil and place over tissue paper to soak excess oil
- Serve the Fritters in room temperature instead of hot as it consists of jaggery.
- You may store the fritters in an airtight container for 3-4 days.
Notes
You may use sugar instead of Jaggery.
I do not like to flavor the fritters with cardamom or other flavoring agents as I prefer the natural aroma of Banana and jaggery in my Kolar Bora. You may for sure add some cardamom powder if you wish to.
Nutrition
- Calories: 132
- Sugar: 11.2g
- Sodium: 489mg
- Fat: 6.1g
- Saturated Fat: 1.8g
- Carbohydrates: 18.9g
- Fiber: 0.9g
- Protein: 1g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
