Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lau chingri/ shrimp with ridged gourd. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lau Chingri (Bottle Gourd cooked with Prawns) is a quintessential Bengali delicacy cooked with no onion. This is a typical "Ghonto" (Ghonto is the Bengali. Traditional Bengali Lau Chingri Ghanto Recipe.
Lau chingri/ shrimp with ridged gourd is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Lau chingri/ shrimp with ridged gourd is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lau chingri/ shrimp with ridged gourd using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lau chingri/ shrimp with ridged gourd:
- Get 1 Lau/ ridged gourd medium
- Take 200 g kuccho chingri/ small shrimps
- Prepare 2-3 green chillies
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Take 1 tsp Cumin powder
- Prepare 1 tsp ghee
- Get to taste Salt
- Take to taste Sugar
- Get 2 tsp oil for cooking
- Prepare For tempering
- Prepare 1 red chilli powder
- Make ready 1 bay leaf
- Get 1 tsp whole cumin
- Prepare 1 tsp ginger paste/grated
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. You need small shrimps for this.
Instructions to make Lau chingri/ shrimp with ridged gourd:
- Chopped the ridge gourd as thin possible. Shrimps shell out and cleaned.
- Marinate shrimps and ridge gourd separately with salt and turmeric and keep aside.
- After 10-15 mins ridge gourd leaves water.. so strained water by hands just pressing softly with palm.
- Saute prawn with little oil and keep aside.
- In same pan put remaining oil, add tempering except ginger, when cumin makes crakling sound add ginger along with ridge gourd and cumin powder. Cook medium to low flame untill ridge gourd cooked. Do not put water as ridge gourd leaves water and cooking with it's own water. Add shrimps and stir for some minute in high flame. Add salt if required. Add sugar and ghee closed the lid.
- Serve hot with steam rice.
Lau Chingri is bottle gourd cooked with shrimps, a delicacy from West Bengal. I love authentic Bengali cuisine, most of the recipes are so simple with minimal ingredients, yet so flavourful. It's the same with Lau chingri, the humble bottle gourd gets a complete makeover by the use of shrimps. Lau Ghonto with Bori and Lau Chingri. BottleGourd with Bori and BottleGourd with Shrimp.
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