This is a bengali delicacy.
Ingredients:
• Daab (Un riped or Tender Coconut with a layer of kernel in it) - 1 Big
• Coconut water or Daab water
• Jumbo Prawns (cleaned and unskinned)- 500 grms
• Mustard Oil - 1 cup
• Mustard Powder - 2 tsp
• Onion paste - 4 tbsp
• Garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Ginger paste - 2 tsp
• Green chillies (fine paste) - 5 to 6
• Poppy seeds (grounded) - 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - 2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 2 tsp
• Homemade curd - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Flour for making dough
• Charmagaj (Melon seeds) - Grounded into a paste 3 tbsp (Optional)
Method :
1. Cut out the top of the big green coconut with a fine knife in a small round shape (2 inch diameter) and keep the cut out part aside. Make sure the green coconut is full of kernel (Please note that if your green coconut does not have a soft kernel inside then while cooking the curry add coconut paste into the mixture. Without this there will not be any taste at all).
2. Pour the coconut water in a separate bowl.
3. Add salt, turmeric powder and red chilli powder to the uncooked prawns and keep it in a cool place for an hour.
4. In a pan pour mustard oil and lightly saute the prawns for not more than 2 minutes. Let it cool.
5. In that same pan add onion paste and saute. Add ginger-garlic paste, grounded poppy seeds and keep stirring. Add green chilli paste, a pinch of turmeric and red chilli powder.
6. Add the curd and stir. You can also add Charmagaj paste to add volume and taste.
7. Add salt and sugar and stir till the mixture turns into a paste. At last add the coconut water. Cook for a few more moments.
8. When done, pour the entire mixture over the prawns and mix it well.
9. Make a soft dough out of a cup of flour.
10. Pour the entire prawn curry mixture into the big green coconut, place the cut out lid back into the coconut and seal the mouth with the dough.
11. Take a 5 litre size pressure cooker and fill it half with water. Place the entire coconut inside and close the lid and cook for 15 to 20 minutes until steam comes out. (In case have a microwave: Place the entire coconut inside the microwave. And cook at medium range for 10 minutes.)
12. When done take the coconut out and cut open the lid.
13. In a serving dish pour out the entire curry (gravy and all) and serve hot. You can eat it with plain rice, polau or luchis.
Ingredients:
• Daab (Un riped or Tender Coconut with a layer of kernel in it) - 1 Big
• Coconut water or Daab water
• Jumbo Prawns (cleaned and unskinned)- 500 grms
• Mustard Oil - 1 cup
• Mustard Powder - 2 tsp
• Onion paste - 4 tbsp
• Garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Ginger paste - 2 tsp
• Green chillies (fine paste) - 5 to 6
• Poppy seeds (grounded) - 1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - 2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 2 tsp
• Homemade curd - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Flour for making dough
• Charmagaj (Melon seeds) - Grounded into a paste 3 tbsp (Optional)
Method :
1. Cut out the top of the big green coconut with a fine knife in a small round shape (2 inch diameter) and keep the cut out part aside. Make sure the green coconut is full of kernel (Please note that if your green coconut does not have a soft kernel inside then while cooking the curry add coconut paste into the mixture. Without this there will not be any taste at all).
2. Pour the coconut water in a separate bowl.
3. Add salt, turmeric powder and red chilli powder to the uncooked prawns and keep it in a cool place for an hour.
4. In a pan pour mustard oil and lightly saute the prawns for not more than 2 minutes. Let it cool.
5. In that same pan add onion paste and saute. Add ginger-garlic paste, grounded poppy seeds and keep stirring. Add green chilli paste, a pinch of turmeric and red chilli powder.
6. Add the curd and stir. You can also add Charmagaj paste to add volume and taste.
7. Add salt and sugar and stir till the mixture turns into a paste. At last add the coconut water. Cook for a few more moments.
8. When done, pour the entire mixture over the prawns and mix it well.
9. Make a soft dough out of a cup of flour.
10. Pour the entire prawn curry mixture into the big green coconut, place the cut out lid back into the coconut and seal the mouth with the dough.
11. Take a 5 litre size pressure cooker and fill it half with water. Place the entire coconut inside and close the lid and cook for 15 to 20 minutes until steam comes out. (In case have a microwave: Place the entire coconut inside the microwave. And cook at medium range for 10 minutes.)
12. When done take the coconut out and cut open the lid.
13. In a serving dish pour out the entire curry (gravy and all) and serve hot. You can eat it with plain rice, polau or luchis.
Nice Recipe. See my version of Daab Chingri below.
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