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Lau Chingri Or Bottle Gourd & Shrimp Curry

Lau Chingri Or Bottle Gourd & Shrimp Curry

Bottle gourd is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. For this reason, the calabash is widely known as the bottle gourd. Here Is the recipe of famous Bengali Lau Chingri Or Bottle Gourd with Prawn recipe.

Details

Yields

2 serving(s)

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Time

Preperation
30 Minutes

Cooking
30 Minutes

Non-Vegeterian

Services

Cooking Level
Easy

Meal Type
Lunch

Cuisine
Bengali

Ingredients of Lau Chingri

  • Lauki Or bottle gaurd 1 Peeled and chopped
  • Shrimp 8 to 10 cleaned and washed
  • Vegetable Oil 2 tablespoons
  • Bay Leaves 1
  • Cumin Seed 1 teaspoon
  • Green chili 2
  • Salt as per taste
  • Sugar as per taste
  • Tomato (Sliced) 1 medium
  • Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon
  • Cilantro (Chopped) handfull (optional)

Watch how to make this recipe

Directions to make Lau Chingri in steps

Steps

  • Peel the bottle gourd and chop it finely.
  • Marinate prwans with salt & turmeric. Heat oil in a pan and lightly fry the prawns and take them out and put in a bowl.
  • In the same oil add bay leaf, green chili, cumin seeds and fry for a while. Now add the chopped bottle gourd, turmeric & salt and cover it with a lid and simmer the stove.
  • After 20 min open the lid and check if the bottle gourd is cooked or not. If It is cooked add chopped tomatoes, fried prawns & sugar and higher the flame and stir fry it.
  • When all the juice which came out from bottle gourd is evaporated off the stove and serve the lau chingri with steamed rice.

More Pictures to show the delicacy

Lau Chingri Or Bottle Gourd & Shrimp Curry
Lau Chingri Or Bottle Gourd & Shrimp Curry
Before serving you can garnish the curry with handgull of chopped cilantro.
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