Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, banana flower dry curry or mocha ghonto. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Hello, everyone Today I am going to show you how to make MOCHA CHINGRIR GHONTO, It's a Bengali traditional dish. A dish which is very close to my heart. Mocha refers to banana flowers or blossoms and is really tasty.
Banana Flower Dry Curry or Mocha Ghonto is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Banana Flower Dry Curry or Mocha Ghonto is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook banana flower dry curry or mocha ghonto using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Banana Flower Dry Curry or Mocha Ghonto:
- Get mocha or banana flower
- Prepare potatoes cut into cubed
- Make ready ginger paste
- Make ready cumin powder
- Get garam masala
- Prepare bay leaves
- Prepare turmeric powder
- Get red chilli powder
- Take green and red chillies
- Prepare dry red chilli
- Prepare salt and sugar
- Make ready mustard oil
- Get ghee
- Prepare coconut grated
- Prepare raisins
Nowadays, we all are so busy that we don't get time to cook complex dish like Mocha-r Ghonto as it is very hard to cut Mocha or Banana Blossom. The easiest way is, you can get the canned mocha. It is available in any Chinese grocery store labelled as Banana Blossom in Water or Brine. Mochar Ghonto - Banana Blossom Curry.
Step by Step to make Banana Flower Dry Curry or Mocha Ghonto:
- To begin making this dish,first discard the purple petals.Take out the flowers from each layer.Remove a thin hard hair like thread with a round head called stigma and a transparent petal and chop them finely.Immerse in turmeric water for half hour or if possible overnight refrigerated.Pressure cook 3-4 whistles and drain water.
- Grate coconut and set aside.Cut potatoes into cubes.Heat mustard oil and sprinkle dry red chilli, cumin seeds and bay leaves.Smear little salt in cubed potatoes and fry in low flame till nearly done.Add ginger paste and grated coconut and fry..
- Now add the boiled banana flower,turmeric,red chilli powder and cumin powder.Also add salt and sugar to taste.Add 1/2 cup water and cook covered till done.Add grated coconut,raisins and ghee and toss.Garnish with green and red chillies.Boiled black chickpeas or lentil dumplings may be added to make it all the more flavourful.Serve hot in lunch with steamed rice.
A traditional Bengali banana blossom curry that is the star of the Bong vegetarian menu. After the mocha flowers are cleaned and chopped into small pieces, you have to keep it submerged in water along with salt and. 'Mocha' in Bengali means Plantain flowers or Banana blossoms. Plantain Flowers have amazing health benefits. They are high source of vitamins and minerals and also Garnish with a teaspoon of ghee. Mochar Ghonto is a dry curry recipe and is often served along with steaming hot rice and ghee.
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