Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lau chingri or bottle gourd with shrimps. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really 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 must prepare a few ingredients. 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)
- Take 150 gm shrimps
- Get 2 tbsp mustard oil
- Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
- Take 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Take 1 dry red chilli
- Take 2 green chillies
- Make ready 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Get 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
- Prepare 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
- Make ready To taste salt and sugar
- Prepare 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.
Instructions 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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