Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, mochar ghonto (banana flower). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mochar ghonto (banana flower) using 18 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mochar Ghonto (banana flower):

1. Take 1 small mocha (banana flower)
2. Take Half cup boiled chana
3. Make ready 1 medium size potato (cut into small cubes and fried)
4. Prepare 2 tbsp coarsely grinded coconut
5. Make ready 2 green chillies (chopped)
6. Prepare 1 tbsp ginger paste
7. Prepare 1 tsp cumin powder
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
9. Get 2 bay leaves
10. Take 1 inch cinnamon stick
11. Take 2-3 green cardamoms
12. Take 1 black cardamom
13. Take 1 tsp sugar
14. Take 1 tsp garam masala powder
15. Prepare 1 tsp turmeric powder
16. Make ready 2 tbsp ghee
17. Prepare 1 tbsp oil
18. Take as per taste Salt

It is an age-old traditional Indian recipe. The word "Mocha" does not relate to coffee in Bengali. Rather, it is the blossom of banana, which grows in plenty all over West Bengal. One such dish was 'Mochar Ghonto'.

Steps to make Mochar Ghonto (banana flower):

1. First grease your palms with oil then extract the florets from the banana flower (mocha).
2. Remove the black long stem-like structure from each floret. It is a hard part of the flower which is too hard to boil and difficult to digest.
3. Then wash and chop the florets and boil with salt and turmeric powder. Boil till they become soft, keep aside after boiling.
4. Heat ghee+oil in a kadhai. Temper with whole garam masala, bay leaves and cumin seeds.
5. Now add ginger paste and cumin powder. Fry well.
6. Now add coconut paste, turmeric powder and salt. Fry for sometime. Add the boiled chopped florets, cook again for sometime. At this point add the fried potatoes and boiled chana.
7. Add ghee and 1tsp garam masala before turning off the flame.
8. Serve hot with steamed rice.

Rather, it is the blossom of banana, which grows in plenty all over West Bengal. One such dish was 'Mochar Ghonto'. It is a traditional Bengali preparation of the banana flower. It is a healthy, tasty and an easy dish but preparing the flower for cooking is a bit tedious process. Mochar Ghonto (Dry Banana Flower Curry) Bengali Cuisine Veg Curries.

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