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You might have eaten potato pieces, but have you ever tried raw banana pieces? It also has less starch and is very tasty. If everyone in your house starts making faces at the sight of raw banana, then make these crispy raw banana pieces and feed them. These are crunchy like chips from outside, but slightly soft from inside. Serve these pieces with green chutney. This is a great recipe for evening snacks.

It will not take you much time to make raw banana pieces. If you want to make Tuk for 3 to 4 people, it will take you hardly 25 minutes. All you have to do is blanch the bananas and then fry them until they become crunchy and prepare them by adding some basic spices. So let's see the step by step recipe of Raw Banana Tuk.

Note the ingredients

• You will need 1/2 kg raw banana
• oil for frying
• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp chaat masala
• 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
• 1 tsp dry mango powder
• salt as per taste

recipe for making tuk

• First of all, wash the raw bananas and blanch them, that is, cook them in boiling water for some time, but do not boil them completely.
• Now take out the bananas from water and peel them. Cut all the bananas into pieces of at least 2 inches.

• Fry the banana pieces in medium hot oil until they become light golden and take them out in a plate.
• Now with the help of the bottom of a bowl or glass, press all the banana pieces and flatten them.
• You have to double fry these banana pieces. Due to this, they will become completely crunchy from outside and will remain slightly soft.
• Prepare the masala by mixing red chilli powder, chaat masala, black pepper powder, dry mango powder and salt in a big bowl.
• Add fried pieces to this masala and mix well. These are just ready to serve.

Where is this recipe from?

The recipe of Tuk is mainly considered Sindhi. Traditionally 'Aloo Tuk' is made, but Arbi and raw banana Tuk also taste amazing. If you want to make it in a healthy way, then air-fryer can also be used so that the fat remains less.

Shashi Singh

Shashi Singh is working as a sub editor in TV9 Digital Hindi. Shashi, who hails from Bareilly city of Uttar Pradesh, has graduated in Arts from Bareilly College (Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University) and has done PG Diploma in Integrated Digital Media from 'The Aarohan Media School', an institute affiliated with Amar Ujala. Along with this, he started his career in journalism as a junior content writer from Amar Ujala. She writes on topics like religion, relationships, food, health, and entertainment. He has more than three years of experience in the field of journalism. Along with entertainment, she is also interested in writing politics, crime and news of the country and the world. Apart from this, he has also taken a master's degree in Journalism from 'Tekvan School of Mass Communication'. She is fond of reading books, writing poems and poetry and likes to explore new things.

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