Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lau chingri or bottle gourd with shrimps. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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This is a recipe for Lau Chingri - a favorite Bengali dish of bottle gourd with shrimp or prawns, that's easy to cook. Music credits: Shades of Spring Kevin. How to make Bengali Lau Chingri - Bottle Gourd With Shrimp.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have lau chingri or bottle gourd with shrimps using 14 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lau Chingri or Bottle Gourd with Shrimps:
- Take 1 small lauki (bottle gourd)
- Get 150 gm shrimps
- Take 2 tbsp mustard oil
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- Prepare 2 bay leaves
- Get 1 dry red chilli
- Take 2 green chillies
- Get 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Take 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
- Make ready 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
- Get To taste salt and sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
Bottle gourd is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil Here Is the recipe of famous Bengali Lau Chingri Or Bottle Gourd with Prawn recipe. Lau chingri or bottle gourd with shrimps is a traditional Bengali recipe. There are different ways you can cook 'lau chingri'. Some add chopped onion to it, some add cumin and garam masala.
Steps to make Lau Chingri or Bottle Gourd with Shrimps:
- Devein clean and wash shrimps.Smear little salt and turmeric and set aside for 5 minutes.Meanwhile cut lauki and peel the outer skin.Chop into 1 inch sticks.Wash and drain water completely.Heat 1 tbsp oil and fry the shrimps.Set aside.Add 1 more tbsp oil.Sprinkle cumin,fenugreek and fennel seeds.Add 1 dry red chilli and bay leaves.
- Add chopped lauki,shrimps,turmeric,red chilli powder,cumin powder,salt and sugar to taste.If the lauki is tender,it can be cooked directly.Otherwise steam or pressure cook 1 whistle only.Then cook.Lauki should be soft but not mushy.The preparation should be totally dry.If needed sprinkle little water while cooking.Add chopped coriander and toss.Garnish with green and dry red chilli and serve with rice.For vegetarian,green peas can be substituted for shrimps.
I do follow the way my mother-in-law does it. You need small shrimps for this. Lau Chingri from the pages of Gopal Bhnar storybook! Pasta enjoys watching the "Gopal Bhnar" series on TV In general small to medium-sized Prawns or Shrimps are used for Lau Chingri however, I Now add chopped bottle gourd along with little turmeric powder and salt and cover the pan with a lid. About Bottle Gourd/Lau/Lauki The bottle gourd aka calabash, opo squash is a vine grown for its fruit.
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