Prawn steamed in coconut and mustard sauce

Name: Prawn steamed in coconut and mustard sauce
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 2-3 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 200 gm prawns; 1 cup coconut paste; 1 tablespoon mustard paste; 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder; 6 green chillies paste; 4 green chillies; 1/2 cup mustard oil; to taste Salt

Sumita Sarkhel @cook_11753561

Kolkata, India

Prawn is a rich sauce of protein. Therefore we must keep it as the main ingredient in our meal. This is a traditional Bengali preparation of prawn, which is also known as "Chingri Bhapa".

Sumita Sarkhel @cook_11753561

Kolkata, India

Prawn is a rich sauce of protein. Therefore we must keep it as the main ingredient in our meal. This is a traditional Bengali preparation of prawn, which is also known as "Chingri Bhapa".

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Ingredients

40 minutes

2-3 servings

200 gmprawns
1 cupcoconut paste
1 tablespoonmustard paste
1/2 teaspoonturmeric powder
6green chillies paste
4green chillies
1/2 cupmustard oil
to tasteSalt

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Steps

40 minutes

1

In a metallic lunch box add the coconut paste, mustard paste, green chillies paste, mustard oil, salt and turmeric powder.
2

Add the prawns in the mixture and mix everything very well.
3

Cover the box
4

In a kadhai, heat some water and put the box in it by keeping a heavy weight above the box so that no water can enter inside the box.
5

Keep it for about 30minutes.
6

Remove it from the kadhai and uncover the box. Check whether the prawns is fully cooked or not. If not then keep it again for next 10 minutes.
7

Enjoy it with steamed rice.