How to Cook at dinner Aloo Chingri Dalna (Bengali Style Prawn Recipe with Potato)

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Aloo Chingri Dalna (Bengali Style Prawn Recipe with Potato). 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 nuances of the dalna is explained in the Alu Potol er Dalna here. I make this potato cauliflower dish along similar lines.

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!!

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.

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

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

1. Prepare 6-7 pieces of medium sized prawns.

2. Prepare 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder (for marination).

3. You need 1/4 tsp of salt (for marination).

4. You need 1 of medium sized potato, cut into small cubes.

5. It’s 2 tsp of mustard oil.

6. Prepare 1/2 tsp of cumin seeds.

7. Prepare 1 of bay leaf.

8. Prepare 1 of tomato Paste.

9. Prepare To taste of Salt to taste (for gravy).

10. Prepare 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder (for gravy).

11. It’s 1/2 tsp of cumin powder.

12. Prepare 1/2 tsp of red chilli powder.

13. Prepare 1/4 tsp of garam masala powder.

14. Prepare 1/2 tsp of chopped coriander leaves.

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'.

Today's 'Chingri Aloo-Fulkopir Dalna' is… Bengali Aloo Phulkopi / Aloo Gobi Matar (No Onion No Garlic Recipe) / Potato Cauliflower Curry.

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Aloo Chingri Dalna (Bengali Style Prawn Recipe with Potato) instructions

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.

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.

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.

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