Chingrir Jhol
Chingrir Jhol
Chingrir(Prawn or Shrimp) is one of my most favorite seafood. I love this in any form of cooking. My mom cooks prawn or shrimp in every possible way. She says "It is such a versatile item that can be cooked with minimum ingredients and will receive the maximum taste, if you add chingri in any vegetable it will change the taste and makes it a mouthwatering dish". In monsoon a special kind of prawn are available in Kolkata, which is indeed a very rare variety or shrimp family, called 'Dhanbune chingri'. Means this type of chingri can be found in paddy field only. This kind of chingri grows eggs between their legs and they tastes so good. Mom cooks this 'Dhanbune chingri' with Plantain or Drumsticks(kanchakolka or sojne danta). This is a very easy recipe, which can be cooked on daily basis. We usually cook Pranws in rich and spicy way, but prawn itself is a rich item, and it's not possible to have such a heavy thing on regular basis, so my Granny used to cook this <strong>Chingrir Jhol</strong> along with lots of vegetables for weekday lunch and it's so light so you can never feel heaviness after having this. I'm going to share my Granny's recipe of '<strong>chingrir jhol</strong>' which my mom has adopted and forwarded to me , and this can be cooked any white shrimps, not with golda though. This 'Chingrir Jhol' should be served with steamed rice & kagji lebu.
I still can remember, during monsoon, this Dhanbune Chingri used to available in the market, and my mom used to buy this and got the drumsticks too, but it always been little costly as monsoon is not drumstick season, but still she bought and prepare the special 'Chingrir Jhol' and whenever she used to cook this, I supposed to have some extra rice than the other days. Now Dhanbune Chingri is a rare item in the market, still when I visit Kolkata my mon tries to bring the special variety of chingri and makes her special 'Chingrir Jhol' for me. This is called mom's love.
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Ingredients for Chingrir Jhol
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Preperation steps for Chingrir Jhol
Take a medium size pan, add the cleaned prawns, add 1 cup of water, little salt and turmeric and boil it for 2 to 3 minutes.
Now take a pan or wok, heat oil in it till smokes, temper the oil with panch foron and crushed chilies, and fry for few seconds. Keep an eye on it, the panch foron gets burnt easily.
Add vegetables like potato, drumsticks, plantain and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Fry everything for 1 to 2 minutes.
In the meantime take a small bowl, add the ground spices like cumin, coriander, turmeric and add 2 to 3 tablespoons of water and mix to make a paste.
After frying the vegetables add the spice paste to the pan along with some sugar(optional) and little salt.
Coat the vegetables with the spice paste and fry for 30 seconds and then add the boiled prawns along with the water too(this boiled prawns water will increase the taste of the curry), warm water.
Cover the pan and simmer the gas to cook the vegetables. It'll take at least 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes check if the vegetables are cooked enough or not, keep cover if not, uncovered and higher the gas if the vegetables are cooked and boil the curry for couple of minutes.
Check the salt, add if required.
Turn of the stove after 2minutes.
Enjoy the light Prawn curry with steamed rice & gondhoraj lebu.
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