Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mochar ghonto (bengali style banana blossoms curry). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The 'Mochar Ghonto' is a traditional Bengali preparation, where the banana flowers are cooked along with potato and aromatic spices. Mochar Ghonto is a dry curry recipe and is often served along with steaming hot rice and ghee. If you like this recipe, you can also try other Bengali recipes such as.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mochar ghonto (bengali style banana blossoms curry) using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mochar Ghonto (Bengali style Banana blossoms curry):
- Prepare 1 Mocha or Banana blossom
- Make ready 1 Potato cubes
- Prepare 1 Dry red chilli
- Make ready Pinch Turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Cumin powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Garam masala powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Curd
- Take 1 tsp Tomato
- Make ready 1 Ginger Sliced
- Prepare 1/2 cup Coconut, chopped
- Get As per taste Sugar and salt
- Take As required Mustard oil
- Take For tempering:
- Make ready 2 Green Cardamom
- Prepare 1 Bay leaf
- Take 1 Cinnamon stick
Today's recipe of mochar ghonto is one such wondrous delicacy which is an authentic Bengali preparation too! Mochar Ghonto Recipe, a traditional Bengali preparation of the banana blossom which is a star of the Vegetarian Bengali menu. And despite being a hardcore non-vegetarian, each time home, I eat more Bengali vegetarian dishes than non-veg, courtesy the old-timey ladies in my life. And since I'm feeling generous, let me share some of those vegetarian gems that come from the mine that is a Bengali 'ranna-ghor'.
Instructions to make Mochar Ghonto (Bengali style Banana blossoms curry):
- First, the crucial step is peeling off the blossoms. First, rub some oil on the hand. Then peel off the layer and cut out the floret. Chop them and soak then in the water. Add turmeric powder in the water and soak it overnight.
- Next morning drain out the water. Put the chopped mocha in the pressure cooker. Also, add the potatoes and pressure cook it for 2 whistles. Take it out and let it cool.
- Now take the tomato, ginger and chop them. Put them in a grinder. Add the chopped coconut. Blend into a smooth paste. Also, add the red chilli in it.
- Take a pan. Add mustard oil. Put the bay leaf, green cardamom and cinnamon sticks. As flavour comes out, add the potatoes.
- After few minutes of tossing, add the mocha.
- Saute them for a while. Add the masala paste of tomato, ginger and coconut. Mix them. Cover it for few minutes.
- Add salt, turmeric powder and cumin powder. Cook for few minutes more.
- Add curd and mix it.
- Add water as much needed. Add the garam masala powder, cook it for few more minutes then transfer to a bowl and serve hot.
See great recipes for Mochar Ghonto (Bengali style Banana blossoms curry) too! Banana Blossom / Flower has a lot of health benefits as it contains vitamins and minerals. Mochar Ghonto, in Bengali 'Mochar' means 'banana blossom' & 'Ghonto' is roughly a 'mashed stir fry'. Prepping banana blossoms is a labourious activity, but it is worth every bead of sweat. This recipe is our take on the famous Bengali delicacy.
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