Recipe: Delicious Banana Flower Dry Curry or Mocha Ghonto

Banana Flower Dry Curry or Mocha Ghonto. Hello, everyone Today I am going to show you how to make MOCHA CHINGRIR GHONTO, It's a Bengali traditional dish. A dish which is very close to my heart. Mocha refers to banana flowers or blossoms and is really tasty.

Banana flower or 'Mocha' can be. This Mochar Ghonto aka Banana Flower Curry recipe belongs to my Granny's Kitchen. Be careful while you are cleaning. You can cook Banana Flower Dry Curry or Mocha Ghonto using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Banana Flower Dry Curry or Mocha Ghonto

1. Prepare 1 of mocha or banana flower.
2. It's 2 of potatoes cut into cubed.
3. You need 1 tsp of ginger paste.
4. You need 1/2 tsp of cumin powder.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of garam masala.
6. You need 2 of bay leaves.
7. It's 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
8. It's 1/4 tsp of red chilli powder.
9. It's 2-3 of green and red chillies.
10. Prepare 1 of dry red chilli.
11. Prepare To taste of salt and sugar.
12. You need 2 tbsp of mustard oil.
13. You need 1 tsp of ghee.
14. You need 2 tbsp of coconut grated.
15. Prepare 1 tbsp of raisins.

Remove the leaves and a tiny black stick inside Now add some garam masala powder and ghee and lightly mix with it. Mochar Ghonto is ready to be. Mochar ghonto or the dry banana flower curry is best served with phulkas as we like it; but can pair well with rice too. Nowadays, we all are so busy that we don't get time to cook complex dish like Mocha-r Ghonto as it is very hard to cut Mocha or Banana Blossom.

Banana Flower Dry Curry or Mocha Ghonto instructions

1. To begin making this dish,first discard the purple petals.Take out the flowers from each layer.Remove a thin hard hair like thread with a round head called stigma and a transparent petal and chop them finely.Immerse in turmeric water for half hour or if possible overnight refrigerated.Pressure cook 3-4 whistles and drain water..
2. Grate coconut and set aside.Cut potatoes into cubes.Heat mustard oil and sprinkle dry red chilli, cumin seeds and bay leaves.Smear little salt in cubed potatoes and fry in low flame till nearly done.Add ginger paste and grated coconut and fry...
3. Now add the boiled banana flower,turmeric,red chilli powder and cumin powder.Also add salt and sugar to taste.Add 1/2 cup water and cook covered till done.Add grated coconut,raisins and ghee and toss.Garnish with green and red chillies.Boiled black chickpeas or lentil dumplings may be added to make it all the more flavourful.Serve hot in lunch with steamed rice..

The easiest way is, you can get the canned mocha. It is available in any Chinese grocery store labelled as Banana Blossom in Water or Brine. 'Mocha' in Bengali means Plantain flowers or Banana blossoms. Plantain Flowers have amazing health benefits. They are high source of vitamins and minerals and also Garnish with a teaspoon of ghee. Mochar Ghonto is a dry curry recipe and is often served along with steaming hot rice and ghee.