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

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Mochar Ghonto is a delicious and dry curry recipe and is often served along with steaming hot rice and ghee. They are beneficial for nursing mothers as it is believed to increase breast milk. The magnesium in the banana blossom makes it a 'happy' flower as it is believed to reduce anxiety and. #mocharghonto #bananaflowercurry #BongBawarchi Mochar Ghonto Recipe - Traditional Banana Blossom Curry - Bengali Vegetarian Recipe with Banana Flower 'Mocha'. Mochar Ghonto or মোচার ঘন্ট is a Bengali vegetarian dish with banana blossoms.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook 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 Banana blossom or Mocha big-sized:
  2. Make ready Medium-sized potatoes peeled and cubed:
  3. Make ready Deskinned coconut pieces pea-sized, but cut into tiny cubes: handful
  4. Take Cinnamon stick:
  5. Take Green cardamoms split
  6. Take Cloves
  7. Prepare Bay leaf
  8. Take Dried red chillies broken into a few pieces
  9. Take Cumin seeds
  10. Make ready Ginger paste
  11. Make ready Homemade Cumin paste or powder
  12. Take Turmeric powder
  13. Make ready Red chilli powder
  14. Prepare or a handful Brown chickpeas boiled with salt
  15. Prepare th of a freshly scraped coconut
  16. Make ready scraped coconut for the garnish
  17. Prepare Oil
  18. Get Cow ghee
  19. Make ready Green chillies
  20. Take Salt
  21. Get Sugar
  22. Make ready Garam Masala powder

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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.

Mochar Ghonto, in Bengali 'Mochar' means 'banana blossom' & 'Ghonto' is roughly a 'mashed stir fry'. This is my grandma's recipe and is the…» Mochar Ghonto or Banana Flower or Blossom Curry is another traditional Bengali preparation which is disappearing from our pantry these days. They convinced me, our pantry is full of veggies too. It really made me think twice and I came up with the idea of bringing out few of our traditional veggie. Mochar ghonto or banana blossom stir fry is unanimously the star of any lunch menu, yet it is so elusive.

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