Banana Flower Pulao (Mocha'r Murighonto)
Banana Flower Pulao (Mocha'r Murighonto)

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, banana flower pulao (mocha'r murighonto). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mocha'r Pulao is a great dish which is cooked with Rice to give a twist to the regular Bengali Mocha'r Ghonto. It is, served with plain hot rice. Banana flower is called as mocha.

Banana Flower Pulao (Mocha'r Murighonto) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Banana Flower Pulao (Mocha'r Murighonto) is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have banana flower pulao (mocha'r murighonto) using 18 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Banana Flower Pulao (Mocha'r Murighonto):
  1. Take 100 gm Gobindobhog Rice (Fragnant rice)
  2. Get 1 banana Flower chopped
  3. Take 1 large potato cut into cubes
  4. Get 5 green chillies slitted
  5. Prepare 1 teaspoon ginger paste
  6. Prepare 1 tablespoon dessicated coconut
  7. Make ready 2 tablespoon ghee
  8. Make ready 1 teaspoon kashmiri red chilli powder
  9. Get 4 green cardamom
  10. Make ready 4 cloves
  11. Make ready 1 cinnamon stick
  12. Prepare 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  13. Make ready 2 bayleaf
  14. Get 1 teaspoon garam masala powder
  15. Prepare 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  16. Make ready to taste Salt
  17. Make ready as needed Sugar
  18. Get as needed Vegetable oil as

And the mocha or the banana blossom was something that occupied prime real estate in the Bengali. Cooking Fresh and Natural Banana Flower recipe by our Granny Mocha Chingri - Popular Traditional Bengali Recipe Chingri Mach Diye Mochar Ghonto. #মোচাররেসিপি #bananaflowercurry #bananablossomcurry #mochartorkari #mocharghonto #pureveg Mocha'r ghonto is special to anyone who has grown up in Bengal. Mochar Ghonto is a delicious and dry curry recipe and is often served along with steaming hot rice and ghee.

Instructions to make Banana Flower Pulao (Mocha'r Murighonto):
  1. In the pressure cooker add some water and 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric and chopped banana flower. Wait for 4 whisles. Keep it aside and remove it from the pressure cooker.
  2. Rinse the rice and drain the water. Make it dry.
  3. Add 1 tablespoon ghee in a wok and then add the rice. Fry it for sometime and then remove it from the flame. Keep it aside.
  4. Take it in a strainer and wash thoroughly with cold water.
  5. Smash it very well with your hand by taking it in a vessel.
  6. In a wok, heat 2 tablespoon vegetable oil and add the cumin seeds, bayleaf, green cardamom, cinnamon, r cloves. Saute till the aroma comes out.
  7. Add the potatoes and the slitted green chillies and saute them well by adding some salt that is required for the potato.
  8. Fry them for sometime and then add the ginger paste and the kashmiri red chilli powder. Saute it well.
  9. Add the dessicated coconut and again fry it for a while.
  10. Add the boiled banana flower and saute it well. Again add some salt which is required for the entire dish. (previously we have added the salt which was required only for the potato).
  11. Saute it for sometime and then add the rice that has been kept aside.
  12. Again saute it for sometime. Add 1 cup of water.
  13. Mix it well and keep it in a medium flame. Cover it with a lid.
  14. Wait till the water dissapears. Check whether the rice is cooked. If no then add some more water and repeat the same process.
  15. If the rice has become cooked, add some sugar. Let it be sweetish as bengalis prefer pulao to be a little sweet. Note that it is not a dessert therefore dont add too much of sugar.
  16. Add the garam masala powder and mix it well. Add the ghee. Remove it from the flame and keep it covered for sometime so the flavour penetrates.
  17. Serve hot. Mocha'r Murighonto, itself is a platter. Therefore you don't need any kind of side dish to have it.

The 'Mochar Ghonto' is a traditional Bengali preparation, where the banana flowers are cooked along with potato and aromatic spices. Mochar Ghonto, also known as Kolar Mocha and Banana Flower Sabzi is a healthy, rich in iron and traditional Bengali food item. This dish brings you the taste of our land; a subtle yet fiery cuisine, rich and traditional in its cores; the Bangla cuisine. Banana is one of those plants which can be used in various different ways. From its stem to the flowers and the fruits to the leaves everything is in use.

So that’s going to wrap it up for this special food banana flower pulao (mocha'r murighonto) recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I’m sure that you can make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!