Banana Blossoms Curry With Prawns/Chingri Mach diye Mochar Ghonto
Banana Blossoms Curry With Prawns/Chingri Mach diye Mochar Ghonto

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Mocha Chingri/ Chingri Mach Diye Mochar Ghonto is a very popular & traditional bengali recipe. This is a traditional homemade Banana Blossom / Flower curry called 'Mocha Chingri' cooked along with prawns in an authentic Bengali style. Banana blossoms improves lactation in nursing mothers.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook banana blossoms curry with prawns/chingri mach diye mochar ghonto using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Banana Blossoms Curry With Prawns/Chingri Mach diye Mochar Ghonto:
  1. Make ready 1 pc Banana blossom/mocha finly chopped
  2. Make ready 250 gm Prwan medium size/chingri Maach
  3. Make ready 1 Potato medium size
  4. Get 1/2 cup Chopped Tomato
  5. Take 3 tbsp Mustard oil
  6. Get 1 tsp Cumin seeds
  7. Make ready 2-3 pc Red chilli whole
  8. Prepare as needed Some spices like cardamom 2-3, clove3-4, cinemon 1, bay leaves 3-4
  9. Get to taste Salt
  10. Prepare 1 tsp Sugar
  11. Prepare 2 tbsp Ginger paste
  12. Prepare 1/4 tsp Cumin powder
  13. Make ready 1/4 tsp Red chilli powder
  14. Make ready 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
  15. Make ready 1/4 tsp Garam masala
  16. Take 1 tbsp Ghee

Growing up in Kolkata and later Shillong, I grew up in places where bananas grew in abundance. And the mocha or the banana blossom was something that occupied prime real estate in the Bengali vegetarian Mochar Ghonto - Banana Blossom Curry. Mochar Ghonto, in Bengali 'Mochar' means 'banana blossom' & 'Ghonto' is roughly a 'mashed stir fry'. Prepping banana blossoms is a labourious activity, but it is worth Prep the banana blossoms, grind a basic Bengali garam masala and make the curry using potato, chickpeas and coconut milk.

Instructions to make Banana Blossoms Curry With Prawns/Chingri Mach diye Mochar Ghonto:
  1. Deep the finely chopped banana blossoms in salted for 30 min.
  2. After that boiled this,drained out all the water and wash for two or three times.
  3. Marinated the prawns with little bit of salt and turmeric and keep it for 5 min.
  4. Heat oil in a pan add 1 tbsp mustard oil and add prawns and fried well and keep it aside.
  5. Then add remaining oil in a same pan and add cumin seeds, red chilli whole, bay leaves and some spices and saute till the fragrent.
  6. Add potato and fried well. Add ginger paste and cumin powder, red chilli powder, salt and turmeric powder and little bit of water and saute.
  7. Add tomato and cover and cook it almost 2-3 min.
  8. Then add sugar and add banana blossoms and mixed it very well.
  9. Add prawns and mixed. Fried all the items on full flame.
  10. Cover and cook it 6-7 min. Then add little bit of water and fried it.
  11. Again cover and cook it 5-6 min.
  12. Add garam masala powder and ghee and serve hot with boiled rice.

Mochar ghonto or banana blossom stir fry is unanimously the star of any lunch menu, yet it is so elusive. Like all Bengali vegetarian dishes, Mochar ghonto too is pure veg recipe sans any onions or garlic. Even though it can gleefully accommodate prawns or shrimps, only the small ones but onions. So I found the easiest way to cook it as it brings out the good flavors. The easiest way is you can get the canned mocha.

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