Easiest Way to Tips Tasty Lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry

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Lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry. Lau Chingri (Bottle Gourd cooked with Prawns) is a quintessential Bengali delicacy cooked with no onion and no garlic. This is a typical "Ghonto" (Ghonto is the Bengali term depicted for a mushy vegetable dish cooked with a little bit of ginger, ghee, and sugar, at least this is how it was referred by Bengali food Writer Prajna Sundari Devi). Lau Chingri is a quintessential Bengali side dish, enjoyed quite often during summer days."Lau" is bottle gourd and "Chingri" is shrimp and the combination works beautifully with very minimal spices.
Put a lid and cook the curry till the veggies are cooked well.
Bottle gourd is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be consumed young as a vegetable, or mature, dried, and used as pots, utensils.
I will be posting some recipes using bottle gourd like 'Dudh Lau', 'Lau dea Bhaja Moonger Dal' and 'Lau Shukto', which are very very easy and suitable recipe for summer!
You can have Lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry
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You need 1 bottle of gourd chopped.
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Prepare 2 of large potatoes cut into cubed.
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You need 200 gms of shrimps.
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You need 1 of bay leaf.
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You need 1 teaspoon of ginger paste.
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Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder.
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You need 1 teaspoon of cumin powder.
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It’s 1 teaspoon of sugar.
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Prepare to taste of Salt.
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You need 2 tablespoons of mustard oil.
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You need 1 teaspoon of panch phoron.
Here is the recipe of famous Bengali dish 'Lau Chingri' Or 'Bottle.
Lau Chingri or Shrimp with bottle gourd is an quintessential Bengali dish.
It's has the earthy flavor of cumin and ginger minus onion and garlic.
Some people might call it 'lau ghonto'.
Lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry step by step
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Blanch the potato and bottle gourd in little bit of salt water..
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Heat oil in a deep bottom pan add panch phoron and crackle for few minutes then add bay leaf and ginger paste..
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Saute them for few minutes then add shrimps and all spices powder and fry it for few minutes..
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Then add the boiled potato and bottle gourd and mix it well cover it and simmer till the bottle gourd losses all water and cooked..
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Serve this delicious dish along with only Steamed Rice for a satisfying weekday meal..
This dish is on the sweeter side and it can be made with Chingri/Shrimp/Jhinga or we can use 'bori' or dried lentil dumplings.
But believe me these shrimps just take this you to the next level of.
Bottle gourd is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe.
For this reason, the calabash is widely known as the bottle gourd.
Here Is the recipe of famous Bengali Lau Chingri Or Bottle Gourd with Prawn recipe.