Shrimp Croquettes Or Chingrir Chop

Breadcrumb:

  Take 4 white bread slices, cut the brown edges, roughly tear them and put into a dry grinder.

  Grind for 30 seconds, and you will get freshly made breadcrumb.

Making The Filling :

  Take the cleaned shrimps, marinate with turmeric and salt and keep aside.

  Take a small pan, heat and dry roast  cumin and coander seeds, let it cool down completely and grind to make coarse powder. This powder called 'Bhaja Moshla'.

  Heat mustard oil in a pan, add cumin seeds and fry for few seconds. Now add chopped onion, chopped chilies, grated ginger and garlic and fry till everything become nice golden in color.

  Sprinkle some water to prevent the mixture get burnt. Now add turmeric, salt, sugar and marinated shrimps.

  Fry for a while. Add mashed boiled potatoes and mix everything all together. Check salt and sugar. Add the garam masala powder, bhaja moshla, ajwain and mix with the potato shrimp mixture.

  Let the mixture to cool down completely. When everything will be comletely cool down, make small balls out of the shrimp potato mixture.

Making The Chops :

  Take a medium bowl, add besan, egg white, salt, turmeric and mix. Now add little water at a time. The batter will be thinner than pakoda batter.

  When you will get the right consistancy of the batter stop adding water and keep aside.

  Pour the maida on a flat plate, and roll the shrimp potato mixture balls on the maida.

   Dip each ball/chop into egg batter and roll into bread crumb. Now the Chops/Croquettes are ready to deep fry.

  But I used to keep chops into refrigerator for 3-4 hours or overnight befor frying. In this way the binding becomes nice. Usually I make the chops 1 day before frying.

  Now heat enough oil into a deep frying pan, when the oil is medium hot, add 2-3 chops at a time and slowly fry them till the chops are nice golden brown.

  But remember, fry them in medium or lower hot oil, otherwise they won't be crispy. Take the fried Chingrir Chop out of the oil, sprinkle black salt on them and serve hot with ketchup and chopped onion cucumber. You may serve with Kasundi(bengali mustard sauce).

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