Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, echore chingri bharta (raw jackfruit - prawns curry). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Echor Chingri (Raw Jackfruit Curry with Prawns) is a traditional bengali cuisine. It goes perfect with steamed rice. It is not only delicious but also easy.
Echore Chingri Bharta (Raw Jackfruit - Prawns Curry) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Echore Chingri Bharta (Raw Jackfruit - Prawns Curry) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have echore chingri bharta (raw jackfruit - prawns curry) using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Echore Chingri Bharta (Raw Jackfruit - Prawns Curry):
- Make ready 1 small raw jackfruit, cubed
- Take 1/2 cup prawns, deveined & cleaned
- Make ready any oil for deep frying
- Take 3 tbsp. mustard oil
- Make ready 2-3 dry red chilies
- Prepare 1 tsp. nigella seeds
- Prepare 1/4 tsp. asafoetida
- Take 2 tbsp. garlic, chopped
- Prepare 1 onion, chopped
- Take 1-2 green chilies, chopped
- Prepare to taste salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 tsp. cumin powder
Echorer Dalna or Green Jackfruit Curry is also a very popular dish of Bengal. We make this preparation with raw jackfruit during the eve of Bengali New year or Poila Boisakh. Though its bit difficult to cut the raw jackfruit, but once you get the taste of this lip smacking dish, you can never. That Bengali style green / raw jack fruit curry - without which Indian summers are incomplete and some old memoirs -.
Steps to make Echore Chingri Bharta (Raw Jackfruit - Prawns Curry):
- Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the chopped jackfruit till light golden brown in colour. Drain and keep aside to cool. Blend into a smooth paste by adding some water.
- Heat 2 tbsp. mustard oil in a pan / kadai and saute the red chilies. Drain and crush them. keep aside. Then fry the prawns till it changes colour. Drain and keep aside.
- Temper the same oil with nigella seeds and saute for a few seconds. Add the garlic and asafoetida and stir fry till light brown.
- Add in the onion and green chilies. Saute till light brown.
- Now add the blended jackfruit mix, salt, turmeric powder, crushed dry red chilies and cumin powder.
- Stir fry on a low flame for 2-3 minutes and add the fried prawns. Continue to cook till dry.
- When done, add the remaining mustard oil and switch off the flame. Toss well.
- Garnish with the crushed fried chilies. Serve as a side dish with rice or chapatis.
Do you remember that kindergarten rhyme Apart from enjoying it as curry- we also makes a one with prawns added to it - Enchor chingri dalna. We naturally moved to "Chingri r Bhorta"… "Bhorta" or any Spiced Mash, is very popular in Bangladeshi cuisine: which is very very similar to Bengali cuisine but with some minor but unique differences. There are simple, heartwarming mashes made with vegetables or seafood. It goes well in malabar leaves curry, raw jackfruit curry, banana blossoms curry,pointed gourd curry, cauliflower curry, cabbage curry etc. I've already shared a recipe of prawn, in which it was cooked with Raw Jackfruit.
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