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Mocha Chingri. Mocha Chingri Recipe, Learn how to make Mocha Chingri (absolutely delicious recipe of Mocha Chingri ingredients and cooking method) This Bengali delicacy makes use of a marvelous vegetable - the banana flower, known as mocha in Bengali. Cooked with shrimps and coconut, it is best served with rice on the side. This Mocha Chingri recipe is Excellent and find more Great recipes, tried & tested.

The recipe of Mocha Chingri needs a lot of patience.

Once your banana blossoms or Mocha (pronounced as Moh-chaa in Bengali) are ready for cooking, make sure that the prawns are deveined and cleaned properly.

After that, the real process begins.

You can cook Mocha Chingri using 20 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Mocha Chingri

1. You need of medium size mocha / banana blossom, cleaned & chopped finely.

2. Prepare of prawns, deveined & washed.

3. You need of mustard oil.

4. You need of bay leaves.

5. It’s of whole dry red chilies.

6. Prepare of cinnamon stick.

7. Prepare of green cardamoms.

8. Prepare of cloves.

9. It’s of cumin seeds.

10. Prepare of potato, cubed.

11. It’s of onion, chopped.

12. It’s of ginger-garlic paste.

13. Prepare of tomato, chopped.

14. It’s of green chilies, slit.

15. You need of salt.

16. You need of turmeric powder.

17. Prepare of sugar (opt).

18. Prepare of coriander-cumin powder.

19. It’s of garam masala powder.

20. You need of ghee.

This recipe needs a generous amount of oil and even little ghee.

Mocha Chingri is an authentic Bengali delicacy, cooked with banana flower and prawns.

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Mocha Chingri step by step

1. Soak the chopped banana blossom in salted water along with a pinch of turmeric powder and juice of 1/2 lime for an hour..

2. Marinate the prawns with a pinch of salt, turmeric powder and red chilli powder for 10 minutes..

3. Wash the soaked banana blossom well and drain. Pressure cook in required quantity of water in which a pinch each of salt and turmeric powder has been added. Drain and mash well. Keep aside..

4. Heat oil in a pan and fry the potatoes till light brown. Drain and keep aside. Fry the marinated prawns till they changes colour and keep aside..

5. Temper the same oil with dry red chilies, bay leaves, cumin seeds, cinnamon, cloves and cardamoms..

6. Add the onion and saute till light brown..

7. Then add the ginger-garlic paste & all the dry spices (except garam masala and salt) mixed with some water. Saute till the oil separates..

8. Add the chopped tomatoes and stir fry till it is mashed..

9. Add the fried potatoes & prawns. Mix nicely and cook on a low flame for 2-3 minutes..

10. Add the boiled mocha (banana flower), salt & green chilies. Give it a stir and cook, covered on a low flame till done. Sprinkle water at intervals if needed..

11. When done, add the garam masala & ghee. Give it a toss and switch off the flame..

12. Serve with hot steamed rice or chapati..

Chingri diya mochar ghonto, an ambrosial dish from Bengali cuisine.

The whiff of earthy cumin tossed in ladle full of pure ghee, the exotic fragrance of bay leaves as it slowly kiss the cumin perfumed ghee, the fiery green chillies tossed and turned several times to ensure that its piquancy has reached to every bits and pieces of finely chopped banana.

Mocha-Chingri r Kofta My husband bought a huge mocha (banana flower) from the local Indian store.

It was way too large for our small family.

After making mochar ghonto, I still had a lot left.