Echor Chingri

Name: Echor Chingri
Total time: 3600 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: Echor or Jackfruit -(1); cubes Potato; Prawns; pinch Turmeric powder; to taste Salt and sugar; tsp Cumin powder -1; tsp Coriander powder -1; Tomato; cloves Garlic; Onion; leaf Bay; sticks Cinnamon; Dry red chilli; Mustard oil/Ghee to cook; Garam masala powder

Tina Chakraborty let's Cook @cook_17667653

Kolkata

A popular Bengali dish that is popular all over Bengal. Cooked in a gravy of prawns it tastes wonderful with rice.
#vegetariandish

Tina Chakraborty let's Cook @cook_17667653

Kolkata

A popular Bengali dish that is popular all over Bengal. Cooked in a gravy of prawns it tastes wonderful with rice.
#vegetariandish

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Ingredients

1 hour

4 servings

Echor or Jackfruit -(1)
cubesPotato
Prawns
pinchTurmeric powder
to tasteSalt and sugar
tspCumin powder -1
tspCoriander powder -1
Tomato
clovesGarlic
Onion
leafBay
sticksCinnamon
Dry red chilli
Mustard oil/Ghee to cook
Garam masala powder

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Steps

1 hour

1

Rub mustard oil in palm. Cut jackfruit into cubes. Then boil water in kadai. Put the jackfruit cubes in the water. Boil it till the jackfruit cubes becomes soft and tender. Then drain out the water. Also boil potatoes.
2

Take tomato, onion and garlic cloves. Chop them into pieces. Put in a grinder and blend into fine paste.
3

Take prawns. Wash them and cut into halves. Sprinkle salt and turmeric powder on the prawns. Fry them and set aside.
4

Now temper the same oil with bay leaf, cinnamon sticks and dry red chilli.
5

Then add the masala paste in the same oil.
6

Saute for a while. Add the chopped potatoes and jackfruit cubes slowly in the pan. Cook till the masala paste coats the jackfruit cubes and potatoes.
7

Add salt, turmeric powder, cumin powder and coriander powder. Cook for few minutes more. Add water. Cook for few minutes more but don't cover.
8

Sprinkle garam masala powder and finish cooking. Transfer to a bowl and serve with hot rice.