Recipe: Appetizing Aloo Chingri Dalna (Bengali Style Prawn Recipe with Potato)

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Aloo Chingri Dalna (Bengali Style Prawn Recipe with Potato). Simple ingredients, great flavors to please everybody and an unforgettable taste. Explore one of our recipes to try tonight! Today's Alu Phulkopir Dalna – potato and cauliflower curry, is a similar dish where addition of some succulent prawns transfers it from a vegetarian delight to a non-vegetarian dream of Chingri Aloo Phulkopi'r Dalna.

The 'Dalna' in Bengali Cooking is a gravy dish where the gravy is thicker and richer where in a 'Jhol' the gravy is soupy and runny.

For every Jhol there is an equivalent 'Dalna' recipe in Bong kitchen.

So if there is a 'Alu-Fulkopir Jhol/Dum' there is the 'Alu-Fulkopir Dalna'.

You can have Aloo Chingri Dalna (Bengali Style Prawn Recipe with Potato) using 14 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Aloo Chingri Dalna (Bengali Style Prawn Recipe with Potato)

1. It’s of medium sized prawns.

2. Prepare of turmeric powder (for marination).

3. It’s of salt (for marination).

4. Prepare of medium sized potato, cut into small cubes.

5. It’s of mustard oil.

6. You need of cumin seeds.

7. Prepare of bay leaf.

8. Prepare of tomato Paste.

9. It’s of Salt to taste (for gravy).

10. Prepare of turmeric powder (for gravy).

11. You need of cumin powder.

12. It’s of red chilli powder.

13. It’s of garam masala powder.

14. Prepare of chopped coriander leaves.

Today's 'Chingri Aloo-Fulkopir Dalna' is… Chingri Maach Diye Aloo Phulkopir Dalna (Cauliflower and potato curry with Prawn ) So I had never had this in life.

Each time we get prawns at home my dad wants me to make this and each time I side-track the request, because, well I never had it!!

Add water in between to adjust the level of curry.

Aloo Chingrir Shorshe bata diye Jhal is typically served with the curry on the thinner side.

Aloo Chingri Dalna (Bengali Style Prawn Recipe with Potato) step by step

1. Remove all the shells from the prawns, devain them, clean them thoroughly and then marinate them with salt & turmeric powder.

2. Take the oil in a microwave safe bowl & put it inside the microwave. Heat the oil at high power for 1 minute.

3. Then add the bay leaf and cumin seeds into the oil and put the bowl back into the microwave & heat it at high power for 1 minute.

4. Then add the potatoes, cover the bowl & microwave it at high power for 3-4 minutes.

5. Now add the prawns, cover again and microwave for 3 minutes.

6. Then remove the bowl & add the tomato paste.

7. Add the turmeric powder & salt.

8. Then add the cumin powder & red chilli powder.

9. Mix everything very well, then put the bowl inside the microwave and microwave it for 2 minutes.

10. After that remove the bowl & stir everything well.

11. Now pour some water to make a thin gravy or in Bengali we call it as jhol'.

12. Then put the bowl into the microwave & cook it uncovered for 1 minute.

13. Then cover the bowl & microwave it for another couple of minutes.

14. Lastly mix the garam masala powder & chopped coriander leaves with the dalna & its ready to serve.

15. Serve the dalna' with steaming hot rice.

However, you may adjust the level based on your preference.

Bongs love their Luchi along with a bowl full of Aloo Phulkopir Dalna and this dish is completely different from famous North Indian "Aloo Gobhi". "DALNA" is a typical Bengali vegetarian gravy dish. "CHANAR DALNA", "DHOKAR DALNA" etc are also equally famous and both the recipes are already there on my blog.

The curry also contains pumpkin (kumro) and potatoes in chunky cubes, which get juicy with the flavourful jhol.

This is a Bengali-style dalna (curry), so it contains the usual suspects—whole garam masala.

Aloo Kumro diye Chingri Macher jhol / Prawn curry with potato and pumpkin In schooldays I envied my mother for staying home in the noon.