Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, lau chingri/লাউ চিংড়ি. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lau Chingri/লাউ চিংড়ি is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Lau Chingri/লাউ চিংড়ি is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lau chingri/লাউ চিংড়ি using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lau Chingri/লাউ চিংড়ি:
- Make ready 1 large green bottle gourd
- Get 150 g small prawn/shrimps
- Take 2-3 pieces green chilli
- Make ready 1-2 bay leaves
- Take 1 dry red chilli
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp cumin seeds
- Make ready 1 tbsp turmeric powder
- Prepare 3-4 tbsp mustard oil/vegetable oil
- Get 2-3 tbsp sugar
- Take to taste Salt
- Get 2 tbsp finely chopped cilantro(optional)
Steps to make Lau Chingri/লাউ চিংড়ি:
- Clean the fish very well and marinate them with 2/3 tbsp turmeric powder and salt.
- Peel the skin of the bottle gourd and finely chop it. Slit the green chilli.
- In the kadai heat oil and add bay leaves, dry red chilli and cumin seeds and saute for 30 seconds. Then add the fishes and fry for 40 seconds. In the meanwhile flip over the fishes once. The flame should be medium.
- Now add the chopped bottle gourd. Remember if the gourd is very green then it can be added directly otherwise it should be boiled once before added.
- Then add salt and turmeric powder and mix them very well. Cover the kadai with a lid and cook until the gourd is getting soft. Check often in the meanwhile so that it will not burn.
- When the gourd is soft enough add sugar and mix well. As it is a recipe so all the excess water should be dried. Lastly add the chopped cilantro and mix them very well. Switch off the flame and serve it hot with steamed rice. It is a very authentic bengali dish.
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