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This is a recipe for Lau Chingri - a favorite Bengali dish of bottle gourd with shrimp or prawns, that's easy to cook. Music credits: Shades of Spring Kevin. How to make Bengali Lau Chingri - Bottle Gourd With Shrimp.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lau chingri or bottle gourd with shrimps using 14 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lau Chingri or Bottle Gourd with Shrimps:

1. Take 1 small lauki (bottle gourd)
2. Prepare 150 gm shrimps
3. Get 2 tbsp mustard oil
4. Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
5. Get 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
6. Take 1/2 tsp cumin powder
7. Make ready 2 bay leaves
8. Take 1 dry red chilli
9. Make ready 2 green chillies
10. Get 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
11. Prepare 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
12. Get 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
13. Take To taste salt and sugar
14. Get 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves

Lau Chingri or bottle gourd with prawn or shrimp is another traditional bengali recipe. Let's watch how to make lau Chingri curry and must try it at home. Bottle gourd is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil Here Is the recipe of famous Bengali Lau Chingri Or Bottle Gourd with Prawn recipe. Lau chingri or bottle gourd with shrimps is a traditional Bengali recipe.

Instructions to make Lau Chingri or Bottle Gourd with Shrimps:

1. Devein clean and wash shrimps.Smear little salt and turmeric and set aside for 5 minutes.Meanwhile cut lauki and peel the outer skin.Chop into 1 inch sticks.Wash and drain water completely.Heat 1 tbsp oil and fry the shrimps.Set aside.Add 1 more tbsp oil.Sprinkle cumin,fenugreek and fennel seeds.Add 1 dry red chilli and bay leaves.
2. Add chopped lauki,shrimps,turmeric,red chilli powder,cumin powder,salt and sugar to taste.If the lauki is tender,it can be cooked directly.Otherwise steam or pressure cook 1 whistle only.Then cook.Lauki should be soft but not mushy.The preparation should be totally dry.If needed sprinkle little water while cooking.Add chopped coriander and toss.Garnish with green and dry red chilli and serve with rice.For vegetarian,green peas can be substituted for shrimps.

There are different ways you can cook 'lau chingri'. Some add chopped onion to it, some add cumin and garam masala. I do follow the way my mother-in-law does it. You need small shrimps for this. Lau Chingri from the pages of Gopal Bhnar storybook!

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