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Mocha Chingri is a very popular Bengali traditional recipe, cooked with banana flowers and prawns. In the video, I have tried my best to explain the process. Banana Flower (Blossom) With Prawn Curry. While Mocha Chingri has a generous amount of prawns or shrimps in the same dish, the Macher Matha diye Mocha is cooked with fish heads of Prep the banana flowers the previous day itself.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mocha chingri gonto (banana flower with prawn) using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mocha Chingri Gonto (Banana Flower with prawn):

1. Prepare medium sized banana flower (Mocha)
2. Prepare small prawn (Chingri)
3. Get potato cut in a small square
4. Prepare chopped tomato
5. Prepare ginger paste
6. Get grated coconut
7. Prepare cumin seeds
8. Make ready bay leaf
9. Get green chillies
10. Make ready Turmeric powder
11. Take kasmiri red chili powder
12. Take cumin powder
13. Make ready coriander powder
14. Get garam masala powder
15. Make ready sugar and salt to taste
16. Make ready Mustard oil
17. Get ghee

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. Mocha or Banana flower is one vegetable which is cooked in a Bengali household on any special occasion, but removing the individual stalks and then removing the veins also from each of the stalks is a very cumbersome process and requires a lot of time and effort. Banana flower is one of the natural sources of high iron.

Steps to make Mocha Chingri Gonto (Banana Flower with prawn):

1. Remove the Petals and florets from banana flower. Take out the pistil and calyx. Chopped florets and add in cold water and wash it.
2. Boil the florets with little bit of turmeric powder and salt till almost cooked. Then drain the water and mashed the florets and keep it aside.
3. In a bowl marinade the prawn and potatoes with turmeric powder and salt.
4. Heat a pan with oil and fry the prawns till golden colour and also fry the potato till golden colour and keep it aside.
5. In a same pan temper cumin seeds and bay leaf. Then add chopped onion and ginger paste and Cooked till onion translucent. Then add chopped tomato and cooked it for 2-3 minutes. Add chili powder turmeric powder cumin powder coriander powder along with salt and sugar and mix well till the rawness of the spices is gone. And masala leaves the side of the pan.
6. Add mashed florets and mix it well then add grated coconut mix it well with masala.
7. Add the prawns and potatoes cook it for another 10-15 minutes.add garam masala powder and ghee.Cook for 2-3 minutes more. Switch off the flame
8. Serve hot with steamed rice

Mocha or Banana flower is one vegetable which is cooked in a Bengali household on any special occasion, but removing the individual stalks and then removing the veins also from each of the stalks is a very cumbersome process and requires a lot of time and effort. Banana flower is one of the natural sources of high iron. Originated in rural Bengal, this heirloom recipe is an exceptional side dish. Mochar Ghonto, also known as Kolar Mocha and Banana Flower Sabzi is a healthy, rich in iron and traditional Bengali food item. This dish brings you the taste of our land; a subtle yet fiery cuisine, rich and traditional in its cores; the Bangla cuisine.

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