Mochar Ghonto (Traditional Banana Blossom Curry)
Mochar Ghonto (Traditional Banana Blossom Curry)

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The 'Mochar Ghonto' is a traditional Bengali preparation, where the banana flowers are cooked along with potato and aromatic spices. Mochar Ghonto is a dry curry recipe and is often served along with steaming hot rice and ghee. If you like this recipe, you can also try other Bengali recipes such as Mochar Ghonto is a #bengali vegetarian dish with banana blossoms. It is an age-old traditional Indian recipe.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mochar ghonto (traditional banana blossom curry) using 22 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mochar Ghonto (Traditional Banana Blossom Curry):
  1. Prepare 1 Banana blossom or Mocha big-sized:
  2. Make ready 2 Medium-sized potatoes peeled and cubed:
  3. Prepare Deskinned coconut pieces pea-sized, but cut into tiny cubes: handful
  4. Prepare 1 inch Cinnamon stick:
  5. Get 4 Green cardamoms split
  6. Make ready 6 Cloves
  7. Get 1 Bay leaf
  8. Make ready 2 Dried red chillies broken into a few pieces
  9. Prepare 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
  10. Make ready 3/4 tsp Ginger paste
  11. Make ready 1.5 tsp Homemade Cumin paste or powder
  12. Make ready 3/4 tsp Turmeric powder
  13. Take 1 tsp Red chilli powder
  14. Prepare 1/2 (1 bowl) or a handful Brown chickpeas boiled with salt
  15. Make ready 1/4 th of a freshly scraped coconut
  16. Take 1.5 tbsp scraped coconut for the garnish
  17. Prepare As required Oil
  18. Prepare 1.5 tbsp Cow ghee
  19. Make ready 4 Green chillies
  20. Make ready to taste Salt
  21. Prepare 1.25 tsp Sugar
  22. Take 1/2 tsp Garam Masala powder

And the mocha or the banana blossom was something that occupied prime real estate in the Bengali vegetarian menu. 'Niramish Mochar Ghanto' is one of the famous Bengali traditional recipe. You might ace a little difficulty to prepare the 'Mocha' or banana blossom to cook. It is a time consuming process too. It needs more time to prepare the 'mocha' rather for cooking.

Instructions to make Mochar Ghonto (Traditional Banana Blossom Curry):
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Garnish with around freshly grated coconut. Serve the Mochar Ghonto hot with steamed rice.

It is a time consuming process too. It needs more time to prepare the 'mocha' rather for cooking. Now, how to make Banana Blossom Curry (Mochar Ghonto): First sprinkle a little water on the mustard seeds and sugar & then paste it properly. Take small Cardamom, Cloves & Cinnamon separately and grind them together. Now mix the milk with the coconut paste.

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