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Lau Chingri is bottle gourd cooked with shrimps, a delicacy from West Bengal. Lau Chingri is bottle gourd cooked with shrimps, a delicacy from West Bengal. Stay connected to get mouth-watering recipes from Taste of Bengal"Rediscover your taste buds". Lau Chingri (Bottle Gourd Shrimp Recipes) is an Authentic Bengali Recipe.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lau chingri or bottle gourd with shrimps using 14 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lau Chingri or Bottle Gourd with Shrimps:
- Take 1 small lauki (bottle gourd)
- Get 150 gm shrimps
- Prepare 2 tbsp mustard oil
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1/2 tsp cumin powder
- Take 2 bay leaves
- Make ready 1 dry red chilli
- Take 2 green chillies
- Take 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Make ready 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
- Prepare 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
- Get To taste salt and sugar
- Get 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
Instructions: Bottle gourd - Peel the gourd and cut off from both ends. This is a traditional Bengali style chingri mach (prawn) curry. The otherwise boring bottle gourd made interesting with prawns/shrimps. This is an age old recipe and one of the stars of Bengali non-vegetarian kitchen.
Instructions to make Lau Chingri or Bottle Gourd with Shrimps:
- Devein clean and wash shrimps.Smear little salt and turmeric and set aside for 5 minutes.Meanwhile cut lauki and peel the outer skin.Chop into 1 inch sticks.Wash and drain water completely.Heat 1 tbsp oil and fry the shrimps.Set aside.Add 1 more tbsp oil.Sprinkle cumin,fenugreek and fennel seeds.Add 1 dry red chilli and bay leaves.
- Add chopped lauki,shrimps,turmeric,red chilli powder,cumin powder,salt and sugar to taste.If the lauki is tender,it can be cooked directly.Otherwise steam or pressure cook 1 whistle only.Then cook.Lauki should be soft but not mushy.The preparation should be totally dry.If needed sprinkle little water while cooking.Add chopped coriander and toss.Garnish with green and dry red chilli and serve with rice.For vegetarian,green peas can be substituted for shrimps.
The otherwise boring bottle gourd made interesting with prawns/shrimps. This is an age old recipe and one of the stars of Bengali non-vegetarian kitchen. Interestingly, though it is a non-vegetarian dish, it contains absolutely no onion or garlic. Shallow fry shrimps with some salt and turmeric in a fry pan with some oil and keep side. লাউ দিয়ে চিংড়ি Lou diye Chingri+++++Ingredients & Full Recipeউপকরণ.
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