Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chapor ghonto. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chapor Ghonto is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chapor Ghonto is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Chapor Ghonto, a vegetable mishmash gets an elevation by addition of lentil patties. Ghonto refers to any vegetable mish-mash. The lentil patties added in this dish are purposely irregular in shape and pressed with hand while shallow frying. These round shaped lentil patties are patted and pressed with fingers while making these so the name Chapor Ghonto. In Bengali 'Chapor' means 'to pat'.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chapor ghonto using 19 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chapor Ghonto:
- Get 1 & 1/2 cup chana daal / bengal gram
- Get 1 cup potato
- Take 1 cup Pumpkin
- Prepare 1/2 cup Brinjal
- Make ready 1 cup Ridge Gourd
- Make ready 1/2 cup Taro root
- Prepare 1 cup Dried Yellow Peas
- Prepare 1 tbsp Ginger
- Take 1 tbsp Mustard seeds
- Take 1 tbsp Poppy seeds
- Prepare 2-3 tbsp Fresh grated coconut (optional)
- Get 2 Bay leaves
- Get 2 Dry red chillies
- Get 1 tsp Panch Phoran Masala
- Take 2 Green Chillies
- Take 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- Take 1 tsp Salt
- Take 1/2 tsp Sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp Mustard oil
A vegetarian delight, Chapar Ghonto is a mishmash of fresh vegetables enriched with lentils patties to try this Durga Puja. An assortment of spices is perfectly blended with vegetables and cooked in quintessential Emami Healthy & Tasty Kachchi Ghani Mustard Oil which is rich in vitamins A, D & E. Go ahead and try this mouthwatering Bengali dish and pair it with steamed rice. Prompted by our friends going to a pujo spread buffet at a local Indian restaurant, I decided to make a pujo spread of our own.
Instructions to make Chapor Ghonto:
- Soak the lentils for at least 3 hrs. Wash well and drain.
- Make a paste with a little turmeric powder, green chilies, ginger and a pinch of salt. Add as little water as possible while grinding.
- Heat mustard oil in a heavy bottomed pan.
- Place the lentil paste on the pan by pressing it with fingers and make sure they do not have any definite shape. Shallow fry the rest of the lentil paste and keep aside. These are the 'Chapor'.
- Make a paste of poppy seed and black mustard seeds and a green chilli.
- Cut the vegetables in cubed.
- Heat mustard oil in a deep pan, when the oil is hot add the eggplant pieces and fry till brown, keep aside.
- In the same pan add more oil if needed, when the oil is hot add panch phoran masala or bengali five spice mix, dry red chilies, bay leaves.
- As the spices release nice aroma add the potato, taro root (also add pointed gourd if using) with little salt and turmeric powder, cover and cook. After 10 minutes, add other vegetables and rest of the grated ginger cover and cook it till the vegetables are done.
- Once the vegetables are soft, add mustard-poppy seed paste mix well. Break the chapor or the lentil patties and add. Add salt and sugar to taste.
- Garnish with grated coconut and serve hot.
- Serve this with steamed rice or roti.
Go ahead and try this mouthwatering Bengali dish and pair it with steamed rice. Prompted by our friends going to a pujo spread buffet at a local Indian restaurant, I decided to make a pujo spread of our own. In this post I bring to you chapor ghonto. This is a medley with bitter gourd being predominantly featured along with other seasonal vegetables. Rhomesecret Recipe : Chapor Ghonto (authentic Recipe From West Bengal) RHomeSecret Recipe : This dish is a very special mix vegetable dish from Bengal.
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