Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
I prefer eating real simple these days; simple food not laced with too many rich spices or garlic and onion seems to have become my favourite. Lau Chingri recipe (from the pages of Gopal Bhnar storybook)! Lau Chingri (Bottle Gourd cooked with Prawns) is a quintessential Bengali delicacy cooked with no onion and no garlic.
Lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry:
- Make ready 1 bottle gourd chopped
- Prepare 2 large potatoes cut into cubed
- Take 200 gms shrimps
- Make ready 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 1 teaspoon ginger paste
- Take 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- Get 1 teaspoon sugar
- Take to taste Salt
- Prepare 2 tablespoons mustard oil
- Get 1 teaspoon panch phoron
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. I do follow the way my mother-in-law does it.
Instructions to make Lau aloo chingri / bottle gourd potato & shrimp curry:
- Blanch the potato and bottle gourd in little bit of salt water.
- Heat oil in a deep bottom pan add panch phoron and crackle for few minutes then add bay leaf and ginger paste.
- Saute them for few minutes then add shrimps and all spices powder and fry it for few minutes.
- Then add the boiled potato and bottle gourd and mix it well cover it and simmer till the bottle gourd losses all water and cooked.
- Serve this delicious dish along with only Steamed Rice for a satisfying weekday meal.
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