Name: Daab Chingri recipe by Sayan Majumder at BetterButter
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 3
Ingredients: 1 green coconut (which has started to form layers of cream inside); Salt to taste; 500 gm medium sized prawns deveined; Mustard oil 4 tbsp; 2 tbsp grated coconut; 1/2 cup green coconut water; 1 tbsp sugar; 2 Tbsp Mustard paste; 2 green chillies

ABOUT Daab Chingri RECIPE

Daab Chingri is a traditional Bengali preparation of prawns cooked in mustard and filled inside a coconut to get a combined flavour of mustard and soft, tender coconut cream.

Ingredients Serving: 3

1 green coconut (which has started to form layers of cream inside)
Salt to taste
500 gm medium sized prawns deveined
Mustard oil 4 tbsp
2 tbsp grated coconut
1/2 cup green coconut water
1 tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp Mustard paste
2 green chillies

Instructions

Make a paste of coconut with mustard paste in mixer.Add salt and sugar to it.
Heat up 2 tbsp oil in a pan. Fry the prawns a little. Dont overfry please.
Now mix green coconut water,2 tbsp oil,mustard & coconut paste together. Pour it into the green coconut (which has started to form layers of cream inside) with 2 green chillies and fried prawns.
Cover the hole on green coconut and put it into the microwave oven.Set your highest temp for 15 mins. When done.Take out the prawns with gravy and also the melted soft coconut cream to serve.
Serve with steamed plain rice.

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