Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, mochar ghonto (traditional banana blossom curry). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
#mocharghonto #bananaflowercurry #BongBawarchi Mochar Ghonto Recipe - Traditional Banana Blossom Curry - Bengali Vegetarian Recipe with Banana Flower 'Mocha'. Mochar Ghonto Recipe, a traditional Bengali preparation of the banana blossom which is a star of the Vegetarian Bengali menu. Today I will show you how I make Mochar Ghonto.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have mochar ghonto (traditional banana blossom curry) using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mochar Ghonto (Traditional Banana Blossom Curry):
- Prepare Banana blossom or Mocha big-sized:
- Make ready Medium-sized potatoes peeled and cubed:
- Make ready Deskinned coconut pieces pea-sized, but cut into tiny cubes: handful
- Take Cinnamon stick:
- Take Green cardamoms split
- Take Cloves
- Prepare Bay leaf
- Prepare Dried red chillies broken into a few pieces
- Get Cumin seeds
- Make ready Ginger paste
- Take Homemade Cumin paste or powder
- Prepare Turmeric powder
- Take Red chilli powder
- Make ready or a handful Brown chickpeas boiled with salt
- Make ready th of a freshly scraped coconut
- Prepare scraped coconut for the garnish
- Prepare Oil
- Take Cow ghee
- Make ready Green chillies
- Take Salt
- Make ready Sugar
- Take Garam Masala powder
Mochar Ghonto or Banana Flower or Blossom Curry is another traditional Bengali preparation which is disappearing from our pantry these days. They convinced me, our pantry is full of veggies too. It really made me think twice and I came up with the idea of bringing out few of our traditional veggie. Mochar ghonto or banana blossom stir fry is unanimously the star of any lunch menu, yet it is so elusive.
Steps to make Mochar Ghonto (Traditional Banana Blossom Curry):
- Prepare the banana flowers prior in advance. Separate all the inner florets neatly arranged inside each purplish-maroon petal. Discard all the thick maroon petals, until you almost reach the core where the petals aren’t red anymore. As you approach the core, the petals become interlocked. As these petals are comparatively much softer, we will chop off the whole little cone very finely, which we obtained from the inside part of a mocha.
- After removing the unwanted parts from each flower, these flowers are chopped finely and soaked immediately (to prevent blackening) for a few hours in a dish of water with salt and turmeric powder. Soaking helps in getting rid of bitterness. This water is strained after at least three hours and discarded. The banana flowers are now transferred to a pressure cooker with some water and salt. Let it have three whistles on a simmered flame.
- Heat oil in a pan. When the oil is hot, reduce the flame and add the bay leaf, dried red chillies and the whole Garam masala (cinnamon, cloves and green cardamoms). Add the cumin seeds and wait until the colour changes to light brown. Add the potatoes and fry it till golden brown. Add the brown chickpeas. Using water, make a paste of the cumin powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, salt and ginger paste.
- When the aroma of the spices emanates from the pan (i.e., after around 2 min of cooking), add the cooked and semi-mashed banana flowers or mocha. Add chilli powder, salt and sugar. On a high flame, cook it for around 15 min, sautéing continuously, until most of the water dries out.
- Open the lid. Sauté continuously, adding fried coconut pieces, sugar and the ghee. Also add the garam masala. Cook until little oil/ghee leaves the sides of the pan. Check for the salt. In case more salt is needed, add at this stage and cook for 2 min, until well-mixed. Mochar ghoto is slightly on sweeter side, so check the sugar and adjust as per taste.
- Garnish with around freshly grated coconut. Serve the Mochar Ghonto hot with steamed rice.
Like all Bengali vegetarian dishes, Mochar ghonto too is pure veg recipe sans any onions or garlic. Even though it can gleefully accommodate prawns or shrimps, only the small ones but onions. Mochar Ghonto is a traditional Bengali dish made with Banana flowers or Banana Blossoms. Mochar is the Bengali name for Banana flowers For Mochar Ghonto, boiled banana florets and potatoes are cooked along with coconut and spices. Mochar Ghonto is usually quite dry and tastes.
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