
Bengali Daab Chingri Recipe

Ideal For
Lunch
Food Type
Non-VegIngredients
How To Cook
- 10 King Prawns
- 1 Medium Onion
- 1 tsp Panch Phoron
- 4 Green Chilis
- 1 ½ tsp Turmeric
- 20 gm Wheat Dough
- 1 Large Tender Coconut
- 3 tbsp Mustard Paste
- 3 Garlic Cloves
- 2 tbsp Kachi Ghani Mustard Oil
- Salt to taste
- Chop garlic, green chilies and onion. Scrape out the coconut flesh and put it to grind. Note- Grind until it’s a flesh paste.
- Heat oil in a pan over medium flame and add panch phoron to it. Add the chopped green chilies, onions and garlic cloves.
- Take out the mixture in a large bowl and add mustard paste, turmeric, salt and coconut flesh paste. Add the prawns to the mixture and mix well.
- Cut the bottom of the coconut shell to make it stand properly inside the pressure cooker
- Put the prawn mixture in the shell and cover the top with wheat dough.
- Add some water in the pressure cooker and place it in the pressure cooker. Close the lid and cook over medium flame for 3 whistles. Note– The level of water should be half the size of the coconut shell.
- Let it steam for 10 minutes. Remove it from the flame. Then let it be in the cooker for 10 more minutes.
- Take it out and remove the wheat dough seal. Serve hot with steamed rice.
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