Recipes
Daab Chingri: The Authentic Bengali Recipe
Daab Chingri or Chingri Daab is a Bengali cuisine which is basically prawn curry, cooked and served in a green coconut. It is a very creamy dish that melts in mouth like a dream. Daab Chingri is generally prepared during the some of the Bengali festive occasions.
Ingredients: Prawns peeled and deveined 1 cup, Tender Coconut, Tender coconut 1 small, Salt to taste, Turmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon, Mustard oil 1 tablespoon, Panch phoran 1/2 teaspoon, Onions sliced 2 medium, Ginger paste 1/2 teaspoon, Garlic paste 1 1/2 teaspoons, Green chillies slit 4-5, Coconut scraped 1/4 cup, Tender coconut flesh (malai) chopped 1/4 cup, Whole wheat flour (atta) dough as required
- First, chop the onion, garlic, and green chillies. Then, scrape out the coconut flesh and grind it to a smooth coconut paste.
- Next, take a pan and heat oil over medium flame. Once it is heated, add panch phoron to it. Let it splutter.
- Then, add the chopped green chillies, garlic cloves and onions. Fry till it softens.
- Take it out in a large bowl and add mustard paste, coconut flesh paste, turmeric and salt to taste. Then, add the raw prawns and mix well and keep it aside.
- Now, cut the bottom or base of the coconut shell evenly in order to make it stand properly inside the pressure cooker.
- Then, put the prawn mixture in the shell and cover the top with the wheat dough.
- Take a pressure cooker and add some water in it. Make sure that the level of water should be around half the height of the coconut shell.
- Then, carefully place the coconut shell inside it.
- Put the cooker lid on and allow it to cook over medium flame for 3 whistles.
- Then remove the cooker from the flame and keep it as it is for 10 more minutes.
- Then, take out the coconut shell and remove the wheat dough seal.
- Serve hot with steamed rice.
Enjoy the yummy Daab Chingri!!