Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, echore chingri bharta (raw jackfruit - prawns curry). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Echor Chingri (Raw Jackfruit Curry with Prawns) is a traditional bengali cuisine. It goes perfect with steamed rice. It is not only delicious but also easy.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have echore chingri bharta (raw jackfruit - prawns curry) using 13 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Echore Chingri Bharta (Raw Jackfruit - Prawns Curry):
- Prepare 1 small raw jackfruit, cubed
- Take 1/2 cup prawns, deveined & cleaned
- Get any oil for deep frying
- Make ready 3 tbsp. mustard oil
- Take 2-3 dry red chilies
- Get 1 tsp. nigella seeds
- Prepare 1/4 tsp. asafoetida
- Make ready 2 tbsp. garlic, chopped
- Prepare 1 onion, chopped
- Take 1-2 green chilies, chopped
- Take to taste salt
- Get 1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 tsp. cumin powder
Echor Chingri Kalia or Jackfruit Shrimp Curry is one of the most traditional bengali dish. In Bengal we call Jackfruit as echor or The Echor Chingri Kalia or Jackfruit Shrimp Curry is very tasty and easy to make. In India we can find raw Jackfruit during summer season, but in US often it is very hard to. That Bengali style green / raw jack fruit curry - without which Indian summers are incomplete and some old memoirs -.
Steps to make Echore Chingri Bharta (Raw Jackfruit - Prawns Curry):
- Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the chopped jackfruit till light golden brown in colour. Drain and keep aside to cool. Blend into a smooth paste by adding some water.
- Heat 2 tbsp. mustard oil in a pan / kadai and saute the red chilies. Drain and crush them. keep aside. Then fry the prawns till it changes colour. Drain and keep aside.
- Temper the same oil with nigella seeds and saute for a few seconds. Add the garlic and asafoetida and stir fry till light brown.
- Add in the onion and green chilies. Saute till light brown.
- Now add the blended jackfruit mix, salt, turmeric powder, crushed dry red chilies and cumin powder.
- Stir fry on a low flame for 2-3 minutes and add the fried prawns. Continue to cook till dry.
- When done, add the remaining mustard oil and switch off the flame. Toss well.
- Garnish with the crushed fried chilies. Serve as a side dish with rice or chapatis.
Do you remember that kindergarten rhyme Apart from enjoying it as curry- we also makes a one with prawns added to it - Enchor chingri dalna. Shrimp Coconut Curry ( Chingri Malay Curry ). We naturally moved to "Chingri r Bhorta"… "Bhorta" or any Spiced Mash, is very popular in Bangladeshi cuisine: which is very very similar to Bengali cuisine but with some minor but unique differences. There are simple, heartwarming mashes made with vegetables or seafood. It goes well in malabar leaves curry, raw jackfruit curry, banana blossoms curry,pointed gourd curry, cauliflower curry, cabbage curry etc.
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