Daab Chingri Recipe
How to make Daab Chingri
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- Recipe Servings: 4
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- Difficulty Level: Medium
Relish the exquisite taste of authentic Bengali seafood. Sensational shrimps are mixed with heart-warming masalas and cooked wrapped in tender coconut. This aromatic delicacy will get you hooked forever.
Ingredients of Daab Chingri
- Shrimps, deshelled and deveined
- 1 large daab (tender coconut)
- 1 small onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1/2 tsp green chilli paste
- 2 Tbsp mustard paste
- 1/4 tsp panch phoron
- 3 Tbsp mustard oil
- Salt
- Turmeric powder
- Wheat dough/aluminium foil (to seal the coconut)
How to Make Daab Chingri
- 1.Scrape coconut flesh properly and make a smooth paste using the coconut-water.
- 2.Cut coconut-bottom and make it flat so that it can stand inside an oven or a pressure cooker.
- 3.Cut its head in a slightly bigger round shape, it will help while stuffing.
- 4.Keep the lid safely.
- 5.For the shrimp mixture
- 6.Heat oil in a pan.
- 7.Add panch phoron masala and let it crackle.
- 8.Now add onion and garlic, fry.
- 9.Add cooked spices and oil in a large mixing bowl.
- 10.Add mustard paste, chilli paste, turmeric, salt, coconut paste and coconut water.
- 11.Mix well, now add shrimps to this paste and mix well.
- 12.Stuff the shrimp mixture inside coconut and seal its lid with dough.
- 13.Preheat the oven to 220 degree and cook for about 45minutes.
- Alternate method:
- 1.Stuff the shrimp mixture inside coconut, seal the lid with dough.
- 2.Put the coconut inside pressure cooker
- 3.Add some water to the pressure cooker.
- 4.Close the lid and cook over medium heat, let the cooker whistle thrice.
- 5.Let the vapour get released completely.
- 6.Serve.
