Recipe: Appetizing Mocha ghonto

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Recipe: Appetizing Mocha ghonto Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Mocha ghonto. 'Mocha' in Bengali means Plantain flowers or Banana blossoms. Plantain Flowers have amazing health benefits. They are high source of vitamins and minerals and also helps to prevent infections.

Bengali Recipes from Bawarchi.com Mochar Ghonto is a traditional Bengali dish made with Banana flowers or Banana Blossoms.

Mochar is the Bengali name for Banana flowers which are called Kele ka Phool in Hindi, Bale Moothi in Kannada and Vazhapoo in Tamil.

Banana flowers have amazing health benefits as they are loaded with protein, fibre, calcium, iron and minerals like phosphorus, copper and.

You can have Mocha ghonto using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Mocha ghonto

  1. You need of banana flower.

  2. You need of potatoes.

  3. Prepare of boiled chana.

  4. Prepare of ginger paste.

  5. Prepare of cumin powder.

  6. It’s of coriander powder.

  7. You need of black pepper powder.

  8. It’s of turmuric powder.

  9. Prepare of desiccated coconut.

  10. It’s of garam masala powder.

  11. You need of salt and sugar.

  12. It’s of oil and ghee.

But this is one thing I have watched being cooked a hundred times.

Both my family and Sam's family love Mocha.

Just in case you did not know what mocha is, it is the banana blossom.

Mochar Ghonto, also known as Kolar Mocha and Banana Flower Sabzi is a healthy, rich in iron and traditional Bengali food item.

Mocha ghonto instructions

  1. Mix all the imgridients in the boiled mocha.

  2. Heat oil in the pan add the potatoes fry.

  3. Add the mocha and chana.

  4. Cover it and cook.

  5. Finally add ghee and garam masala powder.

This dish brings you the taste of our land; a subtle yet fiery cuisine, rich and traditional in its cores; the Bangla cuisine.

The crop of the land; Mocha or banana, is a very close part of their culture. 'Mocha' in Bengali is the banana blossom or flower.

The banana flower is a large, dark purple-red blossom that grows from the end of a bunch of bananas.

The banana flower is used in several Asian and tropical cuisines as a vegetable. 'Ghonto' is dry curry.

If you are unable to get mocha where you live you can try this out with bean sprouts but you will agree it is a poor substitute for the uniquely Bengali flavors of mochar ghonto.