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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. #mocharghonto #bananaflowercurry #BongBawarchi Mochar Ghonto Recipe - Traditional Banana Blossom Curry - Bengali Vegetarian Recipe with Banana Flower 'Mocha'.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have mochar ghonto (bengali style banana blossoms curry) using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Mochar Ghonto (Bengali style Banana blossoms curry):
- Prepare 1 Mocha or Banana blossom
- Prepare 1 Potato cubes
- Take 1 Dry red chilli
- Prepare Pinch Turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Cumin powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Garam masala powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Curd
- Get 1 tsp Tomato
- Make ready 1 Ginger Sliced
- Prepare 1/2 cup Coconut, chopped
- Prepare As per taste Sugar and salt
- Take As required Mustard oil
- Make ready For tempering:
- Get 2 Green Cardamom
- Take 1 Bay leaf
- Make ready 1 Cinnamon stick
Mochar ghonto or banana blossom stir fry is unanimously the star of any lunch menu, yet it is so elusive. Like all Bengali vegetarian dishes, Mochar ghonto too is pure veg recipe sans any onions or garlic. Even though it can gleefully accommodate prawns or shrimps, only the small ones but. Mochar Ghonto or Banana Flower or Blossom Curry is another traditional Bengali preparation which is disappearing from our pantry these days.
Steps 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.
Now add some garam masala powder and ghee and lightly mix with it. Mochar Ghonto is ready to be served with steaming-hot plain white rice. 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.
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